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=Kia ora and Welcome to "Effective Practices in Teaching Writing"=


 * This wiki has been set up to be a place to promote and link teachers to ideas and activities that are effective ways for teaching writing. It started as a promotion tool for the teacher's resource I was involved in producing called "//Effective Practices in Teaching Writing"// which is a teacher's book and DVD resource developed by NZATE (New Zealand Association for Teachers of English).**

The workshop and resource include 2.5 hours of footage of 4 teachers at work with their classes - ranging from Yr 9 - 12 - at several different points in the writing programme of each teacher throughout the year. The DVD has two different pathways in which you can view the teachers at work in their classrooms. Firstly, you can view by school - about 35mins of footage from each class at several different points during their writing programme. Secondly, you can view some short clips from across the classes that exemplify some aspect of each of the seven effective practices that the resource is based around.

**The seven effective practices outlined in the resource and in the DVD are:**
(1) Clearly describe the learning intentions and success criteria (2) Encourage students to collaborate with peers in the pro­duction of texts (3) Allow for indi­vidual, goal-directed work and inquiry (4) Make connec­tions across and between texts, text types, content, and students’ own lives (5) Emphasize that writing is a process (6) Involve students in using strategies and processes used to create effective pieces of writing (7) Give specific feedback and feed forward to provide clear guidance on next steps to improve

** Excerpts from the Resource **
Here are some excerpts from the written resource which give you a 'flavour' of what it is about. Hopefully it 'looks' like it should - but in doing this conversion some of the fonts and layout seem to have changed i.e. the 'f' letter and words in italics have all changed and some words are missing - not sure how that happens with a pdf!

Professional Development Seminar
Here are a few short extracts from the DVD that accompanies the resource. Lynda's Intro to Poetry [|Effective Practices Extract # 1] Daniel's Class Journal Writing Extract [|Effective Practices Extract # 2] Jess's Year 11 Creative Writing Intro [|Effective Practices Extract # 3] Year 11 Students talk about portfolio approach [|Effective Practices Extract # 4]

**Workshop Presentation** **Materials**
Here's a Power point presentation with the main ideas and thinking behind the effective practices in the resource

Here's a pdf of the basically the same Power point but not quite

Here are the links to three excerpts from filming of the workshop presented at IFTE's "Much Ado About English" conference in Auckland April, 2011. The quality is OK but not terrific and the angle from which the filming occurred means it is a bit hard to read the Powerpoint slides so looking at the Powerpoint presentation below will be necessary to really get a feel of things. Anyway here are the links: First one []

Second one []

Third one []

My contact email is: seanhawthorne@me.com if you have any queries or would like to give me feedback on the resource and the workshop.

Order Form for the Resource
Here is the order form - with postage and packaging rates for NZ delivery only. If you were from overseas and wanted a copy you would need to pay more for postage and packaging - but, hey, with NZ's weak exchange rate against the US & Aussie dollars and the UK pound etc it will still be a bargain! ==