Teacher as Writer
Embracing Your Inner Writer: What it Means to Teach as a Writer
A Chapter from Pose, Wobble, Flow Second Edition
Summary:
In this chapter from the second edition of Pose, Wobble, Flow, Garcia and O'Donnell-Allen make the case for teachers to "take on the pose" of teacher as writer and discuss how to establish a practice of writing.
“Taking on the pose of Teacher as Writer requires that you do what writers do—that is, write, and write often. Establishing your own personal routines around this practice can help you maintain it.
The more we write, the clearer it becomes to us that writing is a practice in the same way that shooting free throws is a practice. To write requires doing what writers do. Writers must create routines and habits that help them embody their writing identities.”
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