Writing in Education

Elizabeth Chase, Ed.D., is Assistant Professor in the School of Education at St. John’s University. Her research explores teaching for social justice, gender and youth studies in education, and content knowledge development within teacher education.Nancy P. Morabito, Ph.D., is Associate Clinical Professor in the School of Education at St. John’s University. Her research focuses on science teaching and learning, writing in science classrooms, and pre-service teacher development.Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Ph.D., is Professor in the School of Education at St. John’s University. She researches adolescents’ meaning making practices in and across digital and nondigital spaces.

• ForewordPeter Smagorinsky<>br/AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresChapter 1: IntroductionPart One: What We Noticedpart Two: What We Didpart Three: The Work That ResultedConcluding ThoughtsChapter 2: Writing about Teaching and LearningGuiding QuestionsIntroductionDeveloping Robust WritingWriting to Showcase PedagogyFeatured Assignment: Commenting on Teaching and LearningConcluding Thoughts: Writing about Teaching and LearningChapter 3: Expansive Writing beyond Content and PageGuiding QuestionsIntroductionWriting beyond the ELA Lesson and ClassroomWriting beyond the ABC’sDigital Storytelling for Examining Teaching and Learning SpacesFeatured Assignment: Creating a Digital Story to Explore Writing across ContextsConcluding Thoughts: Writing Toward the FutureChapter 4: Reflecting on Reflective PracticesGuiding QuestionsIntroductionReflection-in-Writing/Reflection-on-WritingField Notes and Reflective Writing in EducationWhy Do I Even Need to Take Field Notes?Featured Assignment: Reflective Thinking about Future PracticePortfolios and AssessmentConcluding Thoughts: Forward ThinkingChapter 5: ConclusionWriting in Education: Extending beyond ExpectationExtending beyond Expectation: Advocacy and WritingExtending beyond Expectation: Writing and the ClassroomExtending beyond Expectation: Where to Go from HereConcluding ThoughtsAbout the AuthorsReferencesIndex

"A must-read for everyone interested in the teaching of writing, Chase, Morabito, and Abrams have written a text that speaks to teachers, teacher candidates, and teacher educators. This book invites an engagement in provocative strategies and tools that help teachers think through and practice multiple forms of writing—from deep reflection to multimodal exploration, to certification-based reporting, and communicating with various stakeholders. It is a meaningful and practical guide that brings a fresh perspective to the art of and craft of teaching writing in online and in-person classrooms." - Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, author of Love from the Vortex & Other Poems, Associate Professor, English Education, Teachers College, Columbia University"In Writing in Education: The Art of Writing for Educators, Chase, Morabito, and Abrams make the powerful—and too often neglected—argument that being a teacher requires being a writer. This book points the way for how teachers can do professional writing that benefits themselves and, more importantly, their students." - Michael W. Smith, Professor, College of Education and Human Development, Temple University