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Free professional development
for teachers of writing to teens, adults
Providing professional development for teachers who feel unprepared
for teaching nonfiction writing to teens, college students, and
adults is the raison d'être of You-Can-Teach-Writing.com.
None of my resources are for teachers of pre-teens; plenty of
other sites provide those resources. Most of the materials on
this site require cognitive development that does not appear until
adolescence.
Most of this site's PD opportunities are free:
If you like what you find that's free, consider investing in
some of my professional development materials:
Talk It Out is a package
containing duplication masters and teacher materials to support
students' collaborative preparation of essays built on the thesis
and support pattern.
Teaching writing forums for PD
The forums are a place for professional
development for teachers from teachers. In the teacher forums,
you can share your frustrations and get help from other teachers
anonymously, if they wish, without signing up, joining,
or registering.
The forums also provide a place where teachers who want to begin
establishing a web presence can post their thoughts on
topics related to teaching writing and get a byline for their
work.
If you are starting work on graduate degree, you definitely want
to check out the forums. Material accepted for posting gets its
own URL, which means you can list your bylined contributions
on your CV and job applications.
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Writing Points is the most popular PD
The most popular of my professional development
offerings appears to be the free, monthly ezine Writing
Points. You can check
back issues to see the kinds of resources and tips in it for
teaching expository writing to teens and adults.
I'm amazed at the range of educational organizations represented
by Writing Points subscribers I can't tell anything about
people with Yahoo! or g-mail accounts, but subscribers who sign
up from an institutional address come from public and private
K-12 schools, community colleges, four-year colleges, and graduate
programs here in the US. The diversity of institutions outside
the US is even greater.
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