Writing happens in every classroom and for a range of instructional purposes. When writing is used as a mechanism for processing learning, metacognition, self-reflection, and problem-solving, this is ...

An indifferent student on the southside of Chicago, his only aspiration was to play in a band. It was a geology teacher that spotted his potential, and asked George to express himself in class. Joe ...

Today’s students need to write in science and math class because they will need to write well to get tomorrow’s jobs. Writing is used to assess student learning more often than it is used to ...

Learning how to write takes time, whether it is holding your pen properly or ensuring all the letters are on the same ...

University of Toronto provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Toronto provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Teachers have fewer opportunities to ...

There’s a lot one could write about Galileo, the Italian astronomer and physicist. But on a snowy Friday morning in December, during a lesson helping students draft essays about outer space, teacher ...

We can whine all we want about George R.R. Martin's writing speed, or about how he kills all our faves, or about how he insists on naming every one of his 2,302 characters, but at the end of the day ...