#CWPLeader March
Celebrations during the month of March, all across California, include Arts Education Month, Music in Our Schools Month, National Middle Level Education Month, Newspaper in Education Week, National Women’s History Month, and the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, to name just a few.
The CWP Teacher Consultants we celebrate in March are educators who represent many of the disciplines and initiatives celebrated this month. Note how many are middle school educators. Note how many teach subject matter and courses other than English/Language Arts from science, to social studies, to Algebra, to Philosophy, to Economics, to Technology, to French. Note how many are multi-subject teachers who cross and connect varied disciplines and use writing to increase their students’ learning of them.
As you explore their profiles, read them alongside these words:
Writing, like any other art, teaches the entire range of "tools for thinking" that are required to be creative in any discipline (Root-Bernstein and Root-Bernstein 1999). To be a lucid writer, one must observe acutely; abstract out the key information; recognize and create patterns; use analogies and metaphors to model in words some reality that takes place in another dimension; translate sensations, feelings, and hunches into clearly communicable forms; and combine all this sensual information into words that create not only understanding but also delight, remorse, anger, desire, or any other human emotion that will drive understanding into action.
Think about it: what we've just described is what a scientist or mathematician does too.
(http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/3522)
Congratulations and thank you for all you do for students, your colleagues, and your Writing Project.
To learn more about each of these outstanding educators and Teacher Consultants, click on their pictures, which are the links to their profiles.
The CWP Teacher Consultants we celebrate in March are educators who represent many of the disciplines and initiatives celebrated this month. Note how many are middle school educators. Note how many teach subject matter and courses other than English/Language Arts from science, to social studies, to Algebra, to Philosophy, to Economics, to Technology, to French. Note how many are multi-subject teachers who cross and connect varied disciplines and use writing to increase their students’ learning of them.
As you explore their profiles, read them alongside these words:
Writing, like any other art, teaches the entire range of "tools for thinking" that are required to be creative in any discipline (Root-Bernstein and Root-Bernstein 1999). To be a lucid writer, one must observe acutely; abstract out the key information; recognize and create patterns; use analogies and metaphors to model in words some reality that takes place in another dimension; translate sensations, feelings, and hunches into clearly communicable forms; and combine all this sensual information into words that create not only understanding but also delight, remorse, anger, desire, or any other human emotion that will drive understanding into action.
Think about it: what we've just described is what a scientist or mathematician does too.
(http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/3522)
Congratulations and thank you for all you do for students, your colleagues, and your Writing Project.
To learn more about each of these outstanding educators and Teacher Consultants, click on their pictures, which are the links to their profiles.