Your students don't think writing is exciting. What's a new teacher to do?
The San Joaquin Valley Writing Project’s New Teachers’ Writing Collaborative (NTWC) demonstrates how new teachers can better engage their students in writing.
Writing is used in all areas of academic study. Becoming an effective writing teacher is key to most teachers' success.
The NTWC is open to all new teachers in the Central Valley who are between pre-service and their fourth year of teaching. This year’s NTWC, held in June, was full of a variety of teachers, from different districts to teaching different subjects and grades. Teaching Credential graduates from the Kremen School of Education and Human Development took advantage of this unique opportunity.
A Fresno State Single Subject Teaching Credential graduate, Jody Duran is an ELD middle school teacher in Sanger Unified School District. She has been attending workshops hosted by the San Joaquin Valley Writing Project for the past two years. Having just finished her first year of teaching, she knew writing was one of the areas she wanted to work on. NTWC has helped her think about ways to integrate writing instruction into unit design.
“It has been helpful to get strategies to help reluctant writers,” she said. “My main takeaways are building student voice and student choice in the classroom. Also building a community of educators with a similar mission for the classroom.”
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