EDU5327 Writing Workshop for Teachers
The Writers Workshop for Teachers establishes a community of writers with a common purpose: to create a supportive environ-ment where teachers can work and write in the company of published authors. Based upon the belief that professional writers can make a unique contribution to the teaching of writing, teachers learn to use writer's tools more effectively and heighten their sensibilities to form and craft by examining the work of contemporary authors. With the instructors and peer writers in this intensive workshop, students will learn how to invent, develop and revise material as well as to write for publication. Students develop a repertoire of techniques to take into real field assignments in EDU 5259 (Young Writer's Workshop). Teachers develop a portfolio of work-in-progress and publish in the Workshop literary magazine.