Write, on occasion, with and for the students. A writing teacher cannot just talk about writing. The teacher needs to be in the game, demonstrating how writers solve problems. Teach writing as a ...

Response to student writing has been a research concern for composition specialists for the past several decades. However, most research to date has utilized student opinions or researcher judgments ...

English departments are increasingly underpressure to offer writing courses online, but research that informs effective pedagogies--including effective ways to respond to students' drafts--is still ...

Writing about teaching is a meaningful exercise that can be transformative to teachers' practice, Nancy Barile writes.

Editor’s Note: In 1988, a teacher most commonly had 15 years of experience. In recent years, that number is closer to just three years leading a classroom. The “On Teaching” series focuses ...

Over the past weeks since I saw the movie Storytelling, I’ve been preparing in my imagination a film festival, “The Writing Teacher in the Movies,” for my creative-writing students. My ...

As National Writing Project teachers, Bud Hunt, Antero Garcia, and I know what I suspect New Dorp High School teachers have learned as well. It's not just the curriculum that brings on the revolution.

If your goal is to teach students to really write, not simply to satisfy classroom demands or testing requirements, these eight rules will help.

Teachers believe that digital tools benefit student writing, but they worry about the "creep" of text-message style into formal writing assignments, researchers found.