Teaching is hectic. The combination of precision work and chaos theory can make the school year feel like an attempt to knit a sweater while riding a Tilt-A-Whirl. Most of us collapse on the couch at ...

We live in a golden age of bad writing instruction. Learning to write for school was never a great path to excellent writing, but now that we have added learning to write for a standardized test, ...

KENNEBUNK, Maine — Teachers from across RSU 21’s three elementary schools learned how to improve their writing instruction skills during three days of paid professional development earlier this week.

This guide provides a brief introduction to writing in the field of teacher education through the lens of threshold concepts. It includes: An overview of what writing characteristics are valued in ...

Many teachers find that social media makes students engaged, creative writers. July 16, 2013 — -- Occasionally, Jennifer Woollven, an English teacher at West Lake High School in Austin, Texas, ...

One way to learn is to teach. If you’ve been asked to teach anything — a soccer skill, Italian cooking, news writing — you know that the process of preparing to teach involves intense learning. So ...

Teachers who grade writing papers in today's schools have a couple of questions for their students: R U 2 BZ 2 write? Or R U 2 lazy? Teachers nationally and locally are discovering that writing ...

Rather than grading only final essays or presentations, Bond evaluates each stage of the writing process.

The new question-of-the-week is: What is your advice for active K-12 educators who might be thinking about writing a book? Many of us feel like we have books “in us.” In theory, many educators (at ...