Improving Adolescent Writers

Kelly Gallagher (Autor)

DVD-ROM (Software)

2009
Stenhouse Publishers (Hersteller)
978-1-57110-759-6 (ISBN)

Infos

How can we teach today's students to write with clarity, passion, and purpose? How can we move all students — even those who struggle or are reluctant — forward in their skills as writers? In Improving Adolescent Writers, Kelly Gallagher invites you into his classroom for an in-depth look at ways to successfully answer these questions, and more. Through a variety of methods – modeling, mid-process assessment, small-group conferring, grammar and editing mini-lessons, revision techniques, and identifying the many real-world purposes for writing – Kelly demonstrates how to teach writing so that adolescents internalize the habits and skills of good writers. Along the way they learn that writing is messy, hard work but well worth the struggle and effort. They become more than better writers; ultimately, they become better thinkers. The DVD features three programs: The Importance of Modeling, Writing with Purpose, and Assessment That Drives Better Student Writing. 

Autor

Kelly, a "baseballoholic" and a self-described expert at negotiating airports, is in his 33rd year of teaching at the high school level. He currently teaches at Magnolia High School in Anaheim, California. He believes that "there is no greater pleasure than teaching someone something." Teaching is "artistic, it matters a great deal, and I can never get the job down perfectly." Kelly thinks that professional development should treat teachers as such - professionals. "I know in the classroom that good things happen when my students have meaningful discussions. I know as a teacher myself that my craft sharpens when I am given the opportunity to have meaningful discussions with my peers. And let's have a laugh or two while we are at it." Writing his six books for Stenhouse was a solitary experience. "Though I have written outlines prior to each of my books, I have yet to follow any of them step-by-step. That is why I find writing rewarding - because the act of writing itself generates new thinking, and new thinking is always exciting."

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.1.2009
• Verlagsort: York, Maine
• Sprache: englisch
• Gewicht: 379 g
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• ISBN-10: 1-57110-759-2 / 1571107592
• ISBN-13: 978-1-57110-759-6 / 9781571107596
• Zustand: Neuware