These field-tested writing strategies and techniques create a carefully sequenced and balanced approach that fosters competent narrative and expository writing. Through simple and effective writing concepts this essential teacher resource illustrates ways in which every student can begin and master the writing process. Finally, writing is fun again!
How Was Your Day at School?: Improving Dialogue about Teacher Job Satisfaction
Addressing the alarmingly low rate of job retention in classroom education, this guide offers practical advice to administrators and teachers for avoiding teacher burnout and increasing teacher satisfaction and performance. Since the quality of the classroom teacher is the single most important factor in predicting student success, retention of high-quality teachers is essential to student achievement.
The Writing Experiment: Strategies for Innovative Creative Writing
This demystifying guide to creative writing shows that successful work arises not from talent or inspiration alone but from several stages of development within a systematic strategy. Recommending an exploratory approach to writing, this book offers practical exercises that bring exceptional creative writing within reach. Each chapter is illustrated with extensive examples of student work and published writing including fiction, poetry, plays, performance, and new media.