THE teaching writing PLAYBOOK FOR BEGINNING TEACHERS

The Teaching Writing Playbook is a 5-hour course that is aimed at beginning teachers to get your writing instruction off on the right foot. 

Too many writing programs emphasise expression, and while that is important, most writing problems are not found there. The Teaching Writing Playbook helps you to identify other, more surprising, paths to writing improvement. 

The Playbook is for every teacher from across the curriculum to give you the confidence, skills, rules and insight needed to help your students express what they know and understand in your subject. 

 

$360 (+GST)

In this course you will learn

 

How to ‘get inside’ the writing activity – and the importance of doing so. 
 
  • Why writing is so much more than expression
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  • Why paragraph-first approaches to writing are holding back student writing improvement
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  • The key differences between writing and teaching writing – and why that makes all the difference
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  • The power selecting relevant, detailed information to write about – and why that is the superpower of writing
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  • The Writing Cycle as a formative assessment tool to give effective feedback to writing that moves learning forward
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  • The TEN writing features we all want – no matter what your subject area. 

Vocabulary to help you ‘spot thinking’ 
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  • The language of degree and judgement
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  • Why linking ideas together is the foundation of sustained writing
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  • The 4cs of sentences
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  • How to effectively use evidence to support ideas in writing
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  • And much more!

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About Brad

Brad is the founder and senior presenter at Cornerstone Teacher Learning. He is a teacher, writing and professional learning coach who has spent over two decades in education as a History and English teacher, holding various middle leadership positions as a department head, Director of Secondary and more recently in professional learning. He is the author of seven textbooks with Cengage and Small Caps publishing, and has had over 1,500 teachers through his courses on writing instruction in the areas of history, English and cross-curricular interventions. Brad is interested in learning how students and teachers learn with a keen interest in literacy and assessment.