Seeing for Ourselves Case-Study Research by Teachers of Writing

In Seeing for Ourselves, practicing classroom teachers of English and graduate students studying to become teachers demonstrate the value of classroom-based research for themselves and for their profession. Through case studies of individuals from first graders through adults, thirteen teacher-researchers share the insights they have gained about their students, their teaching, and themselves resulting from year-long or short-term research projects. The issues they explore include: The uses of writing-process pedagogy in teaching a learning-disabled child. The dynamics of the student-teacher relationship in college-level writing conferences. The effects of an exposure to poetry on the language and writing of first graders. Sixth-grade writers' views of teacher responses to their writing. Ways of developing independent editing skills in eleventh graders. Dangers of insisting that college freshman choose their own topics. Intricacies of the writing process revealed by and adult writer. The problems of a would-be novelist. The learning styles and strategies of a junior high teacher and their implications for teaching. The possibilities of teaching art history through a writing-process approach, as seen through the development of three high school students.Bissex, Glenda L. is the author of 'Seeing for Ourselves Case-Study Research by Teachers of Writing' with ISBN 9780435084363 and ISBN 0435084364.