The Teacher-writer - Creating Writing Groups for Personal and Professional Growth

Shows how teachers can pursue and sustain personally and professionally worthwhile writing practices, even amidst the many demands associated with teaching. Chapter by chapter, the book provides strategies to help teachers get started on projects, build energy for writing, overcome obstacles, create support systems using online technologies, and develop coherence across their writing lives.

About the author

Christine M. Dawson is a writer, teacher educator, and writing researcher. She is on the leadership team for the Capital District Writing Project (a site of the National Writing Project). She is a coauthor of Writing Instruction That Works: Proven Methods for Middle and High School Classrooms.

Summary

Shows how teachers can pursue and sustain personally and professionally worthwhile writing practices, even amidst the many demands associated with teaching. Chapter by chapter, the book provides strategies to help teachers get started on projects, build energy for writing, overcome obstacles, create support systems using online technologies, and develop coherence across their writing lives.

Product details

• Authors: Christine M Dawson, Christine M. Dawson
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9780807758007
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-5800-7
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Language and Literacy Series; Language and Literacy; Language and Literacy; Language and Literacy Series
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Literature: general, reference works