Full Description
Writing in Education: The Art of Writing for Educators focuses on educators' professional journeys and discoveries about teaching, learning, writing, and self. This book offers insightful discussions about teaching practices, reflective writing, and digital and nondigital representations of meaning. It explores practical matters facing teachers and teacher candidates, such as communicating about one's practice, writing beyond content and page, or conducting classroom observations and maintaining field notes. This volume is divided into three main parts, each of which spotlights a Featured Assignment that examines an area of writing in education. The sample student work that is highlighted in each chapter is designed to support teachers and teacher candidates as they consider the importance and forms of writing as professionals in the field, as well as the roles of writing in their own current or future classrooms.
Contents
Foreword
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Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
Part One: What We Noticed
part Two: What We Did
part Three: The Work That Resulted
Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 2: Writing about Teaching and Learning
Guiding Questions
Introduction
Developing Robust Writing
Writing to Showcase Pedagogy
Featured Assignment: Commenting on Teaching and Learning
Concluding Thoughts: Writing about Teaching and Learning
Chapter 3: Expansive Writing beyond Content and Page
Guiding Questions
Introduction
Writing beyond the ELA Lesson and Classroom
Writing beyond the ABC's
Digital Storytelling for Examining Teaching and Learning Spaces
Featured Assignment: Creating a Digital Story to Explore Writing across Contexts
Concluding Thoughts: Writing Toward the Future
Chapter 4: Reflecting on Reflective Practices
Guiding Questions
Introduction
Reflection-in-Writing/Reflection-on-Writing
Field Notes and Reflective Writing in Education
Why Do I Even Need to Take Field Notes?
Featured Assignment: Reflective Thinking about Future Practice
Portfolios and Assessment
Concluding Thoughts: Forward Thinking
Chapter 5: Conclusion
Writing in Education: Extending beyond Expectation
Extending beyond Expectation: Advocacy and Writing
Extending beyond Expectation: Writing and the Classroom
Extending beyond Expectation: Where to Go from Here
Concluding Thoughts
About the Authors
References
Index
