Developing Writing Teachers - Practical Ways for Teacher Writers to Transform Their Classroom

Practical and accessible, while drawing on a range of relevant research and theory, this text for pre-service and in-service courses teaching writing is distinguished by its dual focus-on teachers as writers and the teaching of writing.

List of contents

Contents
1. Introduction: Assuming the identity of writer
Part I: The teacher as writer
2. Writing in the 21st Century
3. Writing the self through storying
4. “One’s-self I sing”: The democratic self in writing
5. Writing as enacting the professional self
6. Writing as design
Part II: The teacher of writing
7. Best practice overview – what the research says
8. Building a community of writing practice
9. Writing as process
10. Addressing (and answering) the “grammar” question
11. Writing as technology, or writing as ICRT
12. Writing assessment as negotiating power and discourse
Bibliography

About the author

Terry Locke is Professor of Arts and Language Education, The University of Waikato, New Zealand.

Summary

Practical and accessible, while drawing on a range of relevant research and theory, this text for pre-service and in-service courses teaching writing is distinguished by its dual focus—on teachers as writers and the teaching of writing.

Product details

• Authors: Terry Locke, Terry (The University of Waikato Locke
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.07.2014
• EAN: 9780415631839
• ISBN: 978-0-415-63183-9
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; EDUCATION / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy, Communication Studies, Secondary Schools, Teaching of a specific subject, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General, Primary & middle schools, Primary and middle schools, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Arts & Humanities