Developing Writers: A Workshop for High School Teachers presents practical and philosophical advice for teaching writing, while examining issues every teacher faces
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Episode # 1
This session provides an overview of the first steps teachers should take when working with student writers. The educators, researchers, and writers featured in the video programs talk about specific goals they share with their students, recognizing the local, state, and national standards that serve as a floor, not a ceiling, for their work. They also express the benefits and value student writers find as they grow as writers, communicators, and thinkers. Visits to classrooms throughout the country underscore their thoughts. Noted author Judith Ortiz Cofer leads the featured teachers in a writer
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Length : 59 min
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Episode # 2
What kind of atmosphere do students need to grow as writers? This session concentrates on the
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Length : 58 min
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Episode # 3
This session begins by examining the
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Length : 58 min
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Episode # 4
Purpose directly relates to the form or genre selected to express writers
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Length : 58 min
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Episode # 5
This session focuses directly on key questions of grammar and mechanics: When should student writers and reviewers of student work pay attention to usage and mechanics? Does teaching grammar in context really work? Why should these things matter? Grammar experts add to the conversation, analyzing its role in communication and providing ways to bridge the connection between message and mechanics. In the writer
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Length : 58 min
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Episode # 6
Student writing demands reaction
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Length : 58 min
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Episode # 7
What can young writers learn from those who make their living through writing? Educators, researchers, and noted authors consider this question, offering innovative ways to bring the voice of the professional into the classroom. Teachers show how professional works by favorite writers can be the seeds for engaging classroom activities, while authors talk about their own writing processes and writing heroes. Maxine Hong Kingston, Patrick Jennings, Margo Jefferson, Christopher Meyers, Amy Tan, Ruthanne Lum McCunn, and Tracy Mack appear in this session
Tuesday, June 04, 2013
Length : 58 min
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Episode # 8
Evolving technology has expanded the tools available to all writers. It has also opened new venues
Tuesday, June 04, 2013
Length : 58 min
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