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'Let Me See It through Your Eyes': Teaching Grammar-for-Writing as Imaginative Embodiment
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Brett Healey – Literacy, 2025
Effective professional development (PD) in teaching writing involves supporting teachers' knowledge of the writer's craft, including their thinking processes, linguistic knowledge and practical strategies for teaching these. Grammar-for-writing approaches support teachers' knowledge of how grammar creates meaningful effects in writing. While…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Grammar, Writing Teachers
When Teaching Writing Gets Tough: Challenges and Possibilities in Secondary Writing Instruction. Language and Literacy Series
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Annamary Consalvo, Editor; Ann D. David, Editor – Teachers College Press, 2024
Writing instruction is a particular challenge because there is no singular, linear solution to teaching students to write well. This book approaches writing as a wicked problem that takes place in complicated contexts. Through both scholarly research and teacher reflection, it examines ELA classrooms and the experiences of writing teachers to…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, English Instruction, Language Arts
The Language and Practice of Writing Teachers: Exploring Teacher Professional Learning within a PLC Framework
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Macie Kerbs – ProQuest LLC, 2019
There is a need for higher quality professional development for writing teachers (Cutler & Graham, 2008; Gilbert & Graham, 2010; Kiuhara, Graham, & Hawken, 2009). Even though writing is an essential skill, quality writing instruction for students and the professional development for writing teachers is lacking (National Commission on…
Descriptors: Writing Teachers, Writing Instruction, Faculty Development, Communities of Practice
Triangulating Teacher Perception, Classroom Observations, and Student Work to Evaluate Secondary Writing Programs
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Henderson, Daphne Carr; Rupley, William H.; Nichols, Janet Alys; Nichols, William Dee; Rasinski, Timothy V. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2018
Current professional development efforts in writing at the secondary level have not resulted in student improvement on large-scale writing assessments. To maximize funding resources and instructional time, school leaders need a way to determine professional development content for writing teachers that aligns with specific student outcomes. The…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development, Writing Improvement, Writing Teachers
Teaching is Revision
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Hunt, Bud; Hunt, Tiffany J. – English Journal, 2004
The challenges faced by the teachers while teaching the writing process to their students are discussed. It is every teacher's job to assist in making professional development attainable and sustainable for which they should always revise himself or herself in order to meet the needs of the students under their care.
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Teachers, Faculty Development, Writing Instruction
In-Depth Interviewing in the Preparation of Writing Teachers (Staffroom Interchange).
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Cleary, Linda Miller; Seidman, Earl – College Composition and Communication, 1990
Discusses an in-depth interviewing process designed to encourage teaching assistants and other teachers of writing to reflect on the ways their histories with writing affect the way they teach composition. Finds that this process initiates a forum for continued discussion about the teaching of writing. (RS)
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Interpersonal Communication