Within the field of writing teacher education, scholars and practitioners agree that effective writing instructors (at both the P--12 and postsecondary levels) are not simply cognizant of composition pedagogies, rhetorical theories, and their students' unique learning needs. Effective writing instructors also regularly…

In this article, a group of inservice providers and beginning researchers describe their experiences in learning to conduct evaluation research on a long-term school-university partnership program. We offer the practical lessons we learned in how to undertake such a study, and we share the immediate and powerful effects that the process of…

The notion that "teachers of writing must also write" has been pervasive since the 1970s. But "what" should they write? In the National Writing Project (NWP), a professional network focused on the improvement of writing instruction and featuring summer institutes in which teachers engage in writing of their own as well as demonstrations of…

Offers four examples of teacher growth as reasons for optimism in the future of the English profession. (RL)

Materials in the ERIC system on teacher inservice education and workshop activities are surveyed. (HTH)

An update of resources on in-service education that focuses on composition, stressing regional projects in the National Writing Project. (DD)

Reports on a survey of curriculum specialists' attitudes about inservice English teacher education. Develops a scenario for inservice as a result of the data from the survey. (RL)

Details the accomplishments of the members of the Commission on Alternative Models for Preservice and Inservice Education for Teachers. (DD)

Explores three questions concerning the effect of a language arts graduate course on 11 inservice teachers: (1) how teaching practices changed as a result of the course; (2) how teachers' ideas of teaching changed; and (3) what factors facilitated professional growth. (NH)

Describes the benefits of the Bay Area Writing Project and the excitement it has generated in a "down" period for the English teaching profession. (DD)

Provides 10 principles of inservice education, as prescribed by the Conference on English Education. Describes inservice education as a lifelong process by which reflective teachers build new knowledge. (HB)