IN THE course of more than forty years of teaching I have often been asked, “When you teach creative writing, what do you teach?” Books dealing with technique have their function, no doubt, in a ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What is the single most effective instructional strategy you have used to teach writing? In Part One, Jenny Vo, Michele Morgan, and Joy Hamm shared wisdom gained from ...

Pennsylvania students will soon join a growing number of their peers nationwide practicing the looping, connected script of cursive writing—part of a broader national revival of the once-standard ...

Teaching Writing is designed for K-12 teachers, paraprofessionals, instructional coaches, and other school-based educators. Building on the research of Professor Emerita Maria Brisk, the workshop ...

New Jersey and Pennsylvania are among the most recent states to require schools to teach kids old fashioned handwriting skills.

On this week’s episode of Working, Isaac Butler spoke with writer Jonathan Lethem, whose most recent novel, The Arrest, was published in November. They discussed Lethem’s creative process, how ...

The way teachers manage classroom discussion with pupils plays a key role in the teaching of writing, a new study shows. The way teachers manage classroom discussion with pupils plays a key role in ...

The Advanced Placement program’s name is based on its promise to deliver college-level curriculum to high school students. As a high school teacher with university teaching experience and a doctorate ...

Note: In the “Are You Working?” series, a Ph.D. and academic-writing coach answers questions from faculty members and graduate students about scholarly motivation and productivity. This month’s ...

It was gratifying to read Paul Hanstedt’s January 9 guest blog post in IHE. He succinctly summarizes some of the most important tenets of writing instruction and learning to write: The problem isn’t ...

W henever I talk with colleagues about our students’ writing, we complain. Not only about the writing itself (which, every year, at every institution, is consistently but somehow surprisingly bad) but ...