Growing Writers

Principles for High School Writers and Their Teachers

Anne Elrod Whitney

• Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9780814100035
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Professional Development

In Growing Writers, veteran teacher educator Anne Elrod Whitney explores how the principles defined in NCTE's Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing position statement can support high school writers and teachers of writing through knowledge and a conscious search for meaning in our writing activities.

When principles guide our teaching, we can better understand our teaching purposes, make decisions about approaches and content, vet ideas supplied by others, and grow as teachers of writing. As part of the Writing in Today's Classrooms strand of the Principles in Practice imprint, the book includes snapshots from high school teachers working in a variety of settings who illustrate how their own principled classroom practices have helped both them and their students to grow, whether they are writing for advocacy, learning the importance of revision, experimenting with new audiences, or embracing the vulnerability and the power of writing.

The principles come alive through the author's analysis and friendly discussion and the contributing teachers' everyday practices. Whitney's compassionate support and encouragement of active, ongoing learning is supplemented by further-reading lists and an annotated bibliography of both print and digital texts to accompany us on our journeys to ever-greater effectiveness as writers and teachers of writing.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgments
• Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing
• Part I Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing
• Chapter 1 Thinking about Professional Knowledge: Grounding Practice in Principles
• Chapter 2 A Vision of Writing and Writing Instruction
• Part II In the Classroom: Teachers on Their Practice
• Chapter 3 Writing for the Soul: Dispelling Shame and Surveillance through Sustaining Writing Practices
• Chapter 4 Expanding Creative Writing to Collaborative Genres
• Chapter 5 Embracing Messy Writing Rituals
• Chapter 6 Disrupting Texts: Principled Writing Instruction for Advocacy and Argument
• Chapter 7 Contemplating Civic Identity: Explorations through Multimodal Writing
• Chapter 8 Revision Plans: Teaching Students to Process Their Choices during Interludes for Reflection
• Chapter 9 Guiding Youth Voices: Teaching Students to Writefor Many Audiences and Purposes
• Part II Concluding Thoughts
• Part III Growing On from Here
• Chapter 10 Growing Your Own Professional Knowledge as a Teacher of Writing
• Annotated Bibliography
• References
• Index
• Author
• Contributors