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.
It’s a phrase teachers hear too often, usually at the exact moment a writing task is assigned. For many students, the leap from understanding a concept to putting it on paper feels like an impossible ...
Learning a new language is challenging, requiring a student to master four basic skills–listening, reading, speaking, and writing–from scratch. And it becomes even more challenging for ESL learners.
Daily Inter Lake: Writing coaches find fulfillment in helping students, supporting teachers
Writing Coaches of Montana is seeking more volunteers to help students express their ideas on paper and improve their writing skills as the program grows in Flathead County schools. About 50 ...
WESA: 40 years later, Western Pa. Writing Project still inspires, shapes teachers and students
The Cathedral of Learning towers over the University of Pittsburgh campus in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh Monday, . “The best teachers of writing are teachers who write.” Since 1984, ...
40 years later, Western Pa. Writing Project still inspires, shapes teachers and students
In a recent opinion essay, I defended the primacy of traditional literacy skills against the National Council of Teachers of English ’s mystifying call to “decenter” them. In this essay, I will ...
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