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Transforming Teachers and Their Classrooms
Mission:
• Develop writing skills in students through teachers’ improved knowledge and pedagogy
• Address the isolation and failure that both new and veteran teachers experience in the classroom
• Promote a workshop approach to writing in the classroom that allows for student choice and emphasizes the process as well as finished product
• Create and sustain networks of professionals to promote children’s learning and children’s development as writers |
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• Initiate classroom visits by mentor teachers and participants as a powerful way to link discussions of educational theory to classroom practice
• Provide teachers and students with ample opportunities to write, read, and publish
• Ensure that teachers are knowledgeable about research and theory that inform effective classroom practice
• Assist teachers and students to make learning more relevant by developing inquiry and reflection skills
• Empower teachers and students so that real risk-taking can occur (students and teachers are both writers and readers in the classroom and share the exchange)
• Show that learning is reciprocal between teacher and student, not hierarchical (teachers must become learners)
• Foster a shared experience of the writing, observing, and studying that occurs in workshops between teachers as a powerful model of what should go on in the classroom
• Prove that teaching does not have to be exhausting and isolating if you have an active community of students who feel a connection with what they are reading and writing |
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