Twenty years ago, when I started my career as an ESL teacher in Houston, Texas, I remember the struggles of teaching persuasive writing to English learners. I had students who were bright, ...

Rubrics aren’t going away anytime soon, but let’s not pretend they always help students or tackle the biggest problem in student writing. Rubrics give students criteria for how their grade will be ...

When I started a new career as a high school English-as-a-second-language teacher in 2011, I figured I was better equipped than many teachers to help students learn to write. I had been a journalist ...

Two recent experiments highlight aspects of writing instruction that are rarely studied—or taught. Recent research suggests that secondary students can benefit significantly from learning how to ...

Editor’s note: First-year students, prospective students (and some of their parents) wonder and worry how they will handle the academic transition from high school to college. In a series of stories, ...

Graduate assistants who are 1050 instructors in the Department of English at Western Michigan University are required to attend at least three best practices in the teaching of writing brownbags per ...

The internet has changed writing forever. Have you ever thought of your students alongside Hemingway, Shakespeare, and other well-known writers? They are actually: All their messages, blogs, and ...

When I came to the University of Denver to start a campus writing program in 2006, I heard many faculty members say, “A lot of my students can’t even write a decent sentence.” So when I read Joseph ...

Boston College’s TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) certificate program is designed to prepare future English language educators with the essential skills, knowledge, and ...

The one thing we agree on? Every part of our job has changed The post I Thought My Colleague Was a Traitor for Teaching ...

Jeff Scheur didn’t set out to be a tech entrepreneur. The high school English teacher unwittingly launched a startup that exploded in popularity. Millions of students have used the online drills, with ...

Lucinda McKnight receives funding from The Victorian Association for the Teaching of English. Students across Australia have started the new school year using pencils, pens and keyboards to learn to ...