The unstoppable writing teacher
Subtitle: real strategies for the real classroom
By: M. Colleen Cruz, foreword by Lucy calkins
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780325062488
Subjects: Study and teaching; English language; Creative writing; Composition (Language arts); Composition and exercises; Handbooks, manuals
Table of contents: title: A teaching mindset; title: "I don't know what to teach this student. He's a much better writer than I am"; title: I can't seem to get my students to stay writing unless I'm sitting beside them"; title: I'm not sure how to work with students new to English"; title: "I'm finding some student writing repetitive and boring"; title: "I don't feel prepared to work with a student with such big challenges"; title: "I never have enough time"; title: "I need more resources"; title: "I teach grammar but my kids don't learn it"; title: "I feel alone in my work. No one else I know teaches using the writing workshop model"; title: "I have trouble getting families to understand writing workshop"; title: "I want kids to write about what they care about, but so much of what they care about feels brainless and superficial to me"; title: Name your monster; title: Five shockingly easy ways to constantly outgrow yourself as a teacher of writing.