Writing

   So you’ve watched your copy of Teaching Writing: Structure and Style, completed the practicum, and together with your students you’ve moved through a Student Writing Intensive as well as a few IEW theme-based  courses. But you may be yearning to apply some of that learning to other parts of your curriculum. Can you do that? The answer is a resounding yes! IEW makes teaching writing across the curriculum not only practical, but very approachable too. In Podcast Episode 132, Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker discuss how to facilitate building a writing curriculum within the subjects you are already teaching to create an integrated curricular approach. Andrew describes a four-prong approach to constructing your own writing curriculum that focuses on the following elements: knowing what unit you’re teaching and what length of assignment you need; finding appropriate source texts at or below your students’ reading level that have some relevance or interest to your students; creating style checklists that reflect an EZ+1 approach; and previewing potential stylistic techniques with your students prior to the writing assignment so that the students are empowered and enabled to avoid awkwardness, randomness, or repetitiveness in their paragraphs. To learn more about how to teach writing across the curriculum, listen to the podcast. It’s filled with wisdom and experience that will empower you to take the first step with your own students.