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Thursday, December 17, 2009

Writing program rewrites teachers' approach to the craft - washingtonpost.com


Writing program rewrites teachers' approach to the craft - washingtonpost.com:

"George Mason University professor Donald R. Gallehr remembers the dark ages of writing instruction. In the 1960s, when he started teaching at the school, most of the writing teachers he encountered considered themselves topic-assigners and graders -- not writers. Usually, the most they wrote were comments on student papers.

Back then, 'teachers walked into their rooms and closed their doors, physically and mentally,' he said. 'They didn't allow other teachers in.'

In summer 1977, Galle"