Are you an English educator seeking new approaches to your undergraduate and graduate courses? Consider CoLEARN Writing Initiative as a flexible alternate to the common course pack. CoLEARN can enrich your courses and provide resources for preservice and practicing teachers to develop as writers and writing teachers. Click here to learn more!
CoLEARN offers a number of features:
- Full access to all of NCTE's journals in one place! The CoLEARN Writing Initiative is provides access to NCTE's entire library of journals published from 1995 forward in a database that is searchable by title, author, or topic of inquiry. That means you have access to current issues, plus the archives, of each journal!
CoLEARN also has a structured yet flexible series of readings and writings available on writing instruction, learning new strategies for teaching writing, and investigating how your student writers respond best to various approaches.
About CoLEARN's Writing Resources and Professional Development Structure:
The program will take you through three phases of development in understanding writing and writing instruction:
Looking at Yourself as a Writer
Looking at Your Teaching of Writing
Understanding How Writing Works By Looking At Students As Writers
Within each phase you’ll notice three strands that correspond to the last three goals above:
Writing as a Tool for Thinking and Learning
Assessing Writing to Support and Account for Learning
Parents and Others as Partners in Students’ Literacy Learning
There is no timeline for completing these phases; rather, you can spend as much time in each phase as seems productive for you. However you choose to move through these phases and strands, CoLEARN’s central tenet remains constant: to encourage teachers to think carefully and complexly—and ultimately lead to changed practice.
For more information or to schedule a demonstration with a professional development specialist, simply email colearn@ncte.org. To ensure faster access, please include your name, postal address, and email address.