The Unstoppable Writing Teacher: Real Strategies for the Real Classroom, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (May 14, 2015) © 2015

  • M Colleen Cruz

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ISBN-13: 9780325062488
The Unstoppable Writing Teacher: Real Strategies for the Real Classroom
Published 2015

Title overview

Veteran teacher and author Colleen Cruz has seen it all and done it all in the writing classroom–and she’s got something to admit:  this is hard work.  Real hard.  In The Unstoppable Writing Teachershe takes on the common concerns, struggles, and roadblocks that we all face in writing instruction and helps us engage in the process of problem solving each one. 

 

From dealing with writing workshop skeptics to working with students both gifted and challenged, and of course combating that eternal barrier–lack of time–Colleen offers tried-and-true strategies to address and overcome obstacles. 

 

For the struggles unique to you, she includes a “Name Your Monster” section that helps you identify your own individual roadblocks and even offers sustainable support through her blog, colleencruz.com.  “We can’t solve all the problems we’re faced with in writing instruction,” Colleen promises, “but we can choose how to respond to them.  And our responses will make all the difference.” 

 

What makes you unstoppable, or what's stopping you?  Connect with Colleen on her blog at www.colleencruz.com/blog.htm or on Twitter, #unstoppablewritingteacher.

Table of contents

  1. A Teaching Mindset
  2. "I don't know what to teach this student.  He's a much better writer than I am."
  3. "I can't seem to get my students to stay writing unless I'm sitting beside them."
  4. "I'm not sure how to work with students who are new to English."
  5. "I'm finding some student writing repetitive and boring."
  6. "I don't feel prepared to work with a student with such great challenges."
  7. "I never have enough time."
  8. "I need more resources."
  9. "I teach grammar but my kids don't learn it."
  10. "I feel alone in my work. No one else I know teaches using the writing workshop model."
  11. "I have trouble getting families to understand writing workshop."
  12. "I want students to write about what they care about, but so much of what they care about seems brainless and artificial to me."
  13. Name Your Monster
  14. Five Shockingly Easy Ways to Constantly Outgrow Yourself as a Teacher of Writing

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