Writing For Teachers

Catalog description

This course is designed to support teachers in focusing on their own writing and its relationship to their development as learners, teachers, researchers, and human beings. Candidates will construct positive identities as writers, discover multiple authentic purposes for writing, and develop their craft as writers within several basic genres (stories, poetry, descriptive and persuasive writing). During this course they will explore the writing process and learn about key dimensions of writing including textuality, intertexuality, figurative language and writing as rewriting culture. Candidates will build on their strengths, address their challenges, and identify implications for their role as writing instructors and the role of writing in their classes.