PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT MATTERS

This will be principally presentation but with time for Q and A.
This presentation will look at the results of two research studies which involved giving teachers an opportunity to work on their own writing with professional writers. I will show how this impacted on their classroom practice in teaching writing and how students responded. The presentation will also introduce the Craft of Writing Framework, a new resource developed with professional creative writers. This framework looks at how we can teach creative writing more explicitly and how we can improve teacher feedback on creative writing so that students develop understanding of how to evaluate and improve their writing, and a stronger, more confident writer identity.