The teacher-writer : creating writing groups for personal and professional growth / Christine M. Dawson ; foreword by Robert P. Yagelski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dawson, Christine M., author.

Series:

Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.)

Language and literacy series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authorship.

Authorship--Collaboration.

Teachers.

Physical Description:

xiv, 141 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Teachers College Press, Teachers College/Columbia University, 2017.

Summary:

The Teacher-Writer shows how teachers can pursue and sustain personally and professionally worthwhile writing practices, even amidst the many demands associated with teaching. The text meets teachers wherever they are-as novice teachers just beginning to pursue writing, as teachers emerging from a professional development experience, or as accomplished writers seeking to further their craft. Chapter by chapter, the book provides strategies to help teachers get started on projects, build energy for writing, overcome obstacles of limited time, create support systems using online technologies, and develop coherence across their writing lives. Book jacket.

Contents:

Why write?

A "breathing space" : creating an online teacher writing group

Creating space : a view inside a writing group meeting

"Ideas percolating in my head" : finding and sustaining ideas for writing

"I'm a writer" : reclaiming professional and assigned writing tasks

"I just don't know the right things to do" : composing in-person interactions

"I look at them and see myself" : composing identities and ways of being

"A more complicated human being" : inventing teacher -writers

Appendix A : Table of all written texts shared during focal year

Appendix B : Studying our writing group.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-134) and index.

ISBN:

9780807758007

0807758000

9780807758014

0807758019

080777510X

9780807775103

OCLC:

956775523