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Direct linkLocke, Terry – English in Australia, 2018
This review essay begins with the premise that we are all writers. However, for a number of reasons, many teachers struggle to identify as writers and teachers of writing. In the current environment, the need for schools to adopt pedagogical practices facilitating the development of disciplinary literacies means that teachers cannot avoid the task…
Descriptors: Authors, Self Concept, Teaching Methods, Writing Teachers
Locke, Terry; Kato, Helen – Teacher Development, 2014
This article reports on a small-scale case study involving all English teachers of junior classes in a rural high school in New Zealand. The Head of English had been involved in Writing Project professional learning, designed in accordance with principles and practices that can be found in a number of countries, especially the United States. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Teachers, English Instruction, Writing Workshops
Locke, Terry – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2013
This case-study explores the effects of a school-wide writing competition and the implementation of a poetry-writing unit across all junior English classes in a rural New Zealand school. Teacher interview data were thematically analysed using a social constructionist lens. Results highlight the varied strategies adopted by teachers, while…
Descriptors: High School Students, Poetry, Case Studies, Learning Activities
Locke, Terry; Kato, Helen – English in Australia, 2012
This paper draws on a case study undertaken by an English teacher in a rural school with a Year 12 English class, most of whom had been singularly unsuccessful in terms of NCEA achievement. The case study was undertaken as part of a two-year project, directed by the first author, entitled: "Teachers as writers: Transforming professional…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Intervention, Student Evaluation, Action Research
Download full textLocke, Terry; Cleary, Alison – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2011
As an approach to literary study, critical literacy is not a widespread practice in New Zealand secondary schools. This article draws on a major project on teaching literature in the multicultural classroom that take place over two years in 2008-2009. In it we report on a case study where a Year 13 English teacher designed and tested a novel…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Case Studies, English Curriculum
Locke, Terry – Teaching & Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2004
In the last 15 years, New Zealand has experienced a range of educational "reforms'' driven by a neo-liberal agenda which has insisted that the education system serve the goal of enhancing the nation's economic performance and its competitive edge through the inculcation in learners of the skills requisite to the pursuit of this goal. Fuelled…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, English Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
