1. stella2.0 workshop 2 | English teachers as writers 20 Jan 2016
How about you start this workshop? And proceed to outline the schedule for today.
20 Jan 2016

2. today Welcome; Respond on the forum (5-5.25)
Outline and framing for workshop 2 ( )
‘English teachers as writers’: discussing the reading ( )
BREAK (approx )
Writing time ( )
Sharing our writing ( )
Looking forward to workshop 3 (7.50-8pm) SB

3. responding to forum posts from workshop 1
You can access the forum at: forum.stella2.org
SB invite people to read the forum posts from w’shop 1 and respond to at least one of these?

4. English teachers writing?
The diverse ways in which English teachers are required to write in their everyday work, which might be crudely categorised as ‘utilitarian’
The writing that English teachers choose to do that goes beyond merely utilitarian forms and tasks
The writing that falls on, or around, the boundary separating these two notions
GP to speak to this slide

5. Four traditions of writing in English teaching?
Teacher writing to improve student writing
Writing as a form of inquiry, often initiated by the teacher (action research etc), which may or may not be explicitly connected to the teaching of writing
Writing as a form of advocacy - in the public sphere but also within the profession
Writing as/for identity development
GP to take this one. Explaining these traditions in general terms

6. 1. Teacher writing to improve student writing
SB to speak to next slides about the particular examples of texts published early on and in more recent times
1987

7. 2. Writing as a form of inquiry, often initiated by the teacher (action research, narrative inquiry, critical autobiography etc) SB
1971

8. 3. Writing as a form of advocacy - in the public sphere but also within the profession
2007
SB. Maybe also include the cover of the Advocacy issue of Idiom that you edited with Natalie and
2011

9. SB

10. Anne Whitney video is linked to the NWP image.
GP to introduce Anne.

11. Small group chat on readings: English teachers as writers
What writing do you do in your everyday professional life? How do you (or others) use that writing?
Do you write for, or with, your students or colleagues?
What possibilities are there for this writing and what constraints?
How do you see writing in relation to your sense of yourself as an English educator? How have you used writing for your professional growth and/or learning?
SB to introduce

12. A break … and then into the writing

13. Sharing writing
GP and SB

14. Finally … Posting and responding on the stella2.0 forum
Next workshop: Wed 24 Feb SB