TEACHER AS WRITER
BADGE
The best teachers of writing are writers themselves.
~ a core principle of the National Writing Project
This badge is designed to help you own your identity as a teacher who writes and develop or further refine your practice as a writer who teaches. It is the only required badge for the course, and it’s one we’ll complete together before you “choose your own adventure” by working through your choice of the remaining badges.
As you move down this pathway, you will learn about current and persistent issues in literacy education and education in general, paying special attention to the role of schools in developing an educated democracy. You will learn strategies for 1) taking up the pose of a teacher-writer, 2) wobbling within that pose, and 3) reaching some degree of provisional flow as you become stronger in your practice. These strategies will include deepening your capacity to read like a writer by engaging in rhetorical analysis and by apprenticing yourself to skillful writers in education; writing publicly and intentionally about your stance on the state of education; responding to other writers in this class; researching the key features of an unfamiliar genre; revising and sharing your own writing in community with others; and reflecting on your writing at the conclusion of your work for this badge.
You’ll engage in a series of linked and sequenced activities and assignments that will become increasingly challenging and more involved as you progress through the three required levels. These activities will scaffold your learning as you work toward completion of the culminating assignment for this badge--the Unfamiliar Genre Project. The deadline for submitting your evidence for earning the badge through Cred.ly is Tues., 3/26, at 11:59pm.
As you move down this pathway, you will learn about current and persistent issues in literacy education and education in general, paying special attention to the role of schools in developing an educated democracy. You will learn strategies for 1) taking up the pose of a teacher-writer, 2) wobbling within that pose, and 3) reaching some degree of provisional flow as you become stronger in your practice. These strategies will include deepening your capacity to read like a writer by engaging in rhetorical analysis and by apprenticing yourself to skillful writers in education; writing publicly and intentionally about your stance on the state of education; responding to other writers in this class; researching the key features of an unfamiliar genre; revising and sharing your own writing in community with others; and reflecting on your writing at the conclusion of your work for this badge.
You’ll engage in a series of linked and sequenced activities and assignments that will become increasingly challenging and more involved as you progress through the three required levels. These activities will scaffold your learning as you work toward completion of the culminating assignment for this badge--the Unfamiliar Genre Project. The deadline for submitting your evidence for earning the badge through Cred.ly is Tues., 3/26, at 11:59pm.
Level 1 Activities
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Level 2 Activities
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Level 3 Activities
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