Almost every day I hear my fellow professors complain about their students’ poor writing on papers and tests. The papers lack depth, my colleagues say, and reflect a lack of commitment to good writing ...

I remember spending hours commenting painstakingly on my students’ papers when I was a graduate student teaching in the Expository Writing Program at New York University. My students loved our classes ...

Peering over my laptop, I see a few dozen nonfiction books lining the edge of my desk. Disparate in quality and content, they all have one thing in common: They want me to learn something. As an ...

When ChatGPT appeared in November 2022, most educators felt it could become a threat and change the whole niche forever. No wonder: This language model algorithm is smart enough to produce logical and ...

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 ...

Writing remains a shifting fuzzy cloud floating in a wide subjective sky. This week, teachers all over the country have been sharing tales of teaching that most difficult of subjects—writing. They are ...

Teaching methods are the broader techniques used to help students achieve learning outcomes, while activities are the different ways of implementing these methods. Teaching methods help students: ...

Experts say that, if done right, generative AI could be a useful tool in helping students improve their writing. Credit: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: ...

On October 13, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill making cursive handwriting instruction mandatory in 1st through 6th grades. The legislation passed this year, but it could have just ...

(This is the final post in a five-part series. You can see Part One here; Part Two here; Part Three here, and Part Four here.) The new question-of-the-week is: How do you get students to want to ...

Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. However, recent research shows how teachers can help ...