Full Description
Nancy Gorrell leads educators into her own decades-long journey of becoming a teacher who writes and who nurtures students and colleagues as writers and co-learners. The chronology moves through the author's evolution as a creative writer, a teacher-writer, and then a teacher-artist, all the while writing and learning with her students in English classes and reaching out to students and teachers across the curriculum. The book serves as both an inspirational account of Gorrell's personal story of becoming and as a guidebook for teachers to reflect on and create their own analogous story of becoming. Each chapter includes an illustrative teaching story or poem and the author's reflections on her evolving journey, along with model student writing intended to both instruct and inspire readers and their students in their own writing. It also contains reflective exercises for teachers to work through and teaching activities that they can use in their classes. An additional feature of the book is its attention to writing across the curriculum and its inclusion of interdisciplinary models and applications. The book incorporates the work of the author as well as that of her many collaborators, including a number of interdisciplinary contributors and former students.
Contents
Series
Editor's Preface
Martha
Pennington
Prologue
The Grasshopper in the Window or What Keeps Me Teaching
Foreword
Musings on a 10th Muse
Mark
Gutkowski, Global
Academic Dean, Avenues: The World School
Introduction
Becoming a Teacher Who Writes
SECTION
ONE: THE TEACHER SELF
1
Works in Progress
2
It Takes Creativity and Windows
3
It Takes Courage and Heart
4
Knowing Where You've Come From: Writing Memories
5
Discarding Baggage: Reframing Myths
6
Knowing Where You're Going: The American High School
7
Knowing Your Students: Times of Transition and Transformation
8
Knowing the Creatively "Gifted" Student
9
Balancing Freedom and Structure: The Paradox of Boundaries
10
Breaking Boundaries Within Your Discipline
SECTION
TWO: THE WRITER SELF
11
Discovering the Creative Writer Within
12
Discovering the Poet Within
13
Discovering the Professional Writer Within
14
Discovering the Power of Audience
15
Discovering the Creative Process
SECTION
THREE: THE TEACHER-WRITER SELF
16
Discovering the Teacher-Writer Within
17
Writing About Your Students and Your Discipline
SECTION
FOUR: THE TEACHER-ARTIST SELF
18
Discovering the Teacher-Artist Within
Epilogue
"The Students in the Window" Poetry and Prose from the Pandemic
Conclusion
2023
Afterword
On Musings
APPENDICES
Appendix A
Poetry Watch and Hawk Watch Resources (Chapter 2)
Appendix B "The
Weight of Nothing," by Amy Uyematsu (Chapters 3 and 8)
