Basic Assumptions
- Working as partners, universities and schools can
articulate and promote effective school reform.
- Teachers are the best teachers of teachers; successful
practicing teachers have greater credibility with
their colleagues than outside experts.
- Successful teachers of writing can be identified
and-while sharing their expertise-be prepared to teach
other teachers.
- Summer Institutes should involve teachers from all
levels of instruction and all disciplines.
- Writing is as fundamental to learning in science,
mathematics,and history as it is to learning in English
and the language arts.
- Writing needs constant attention and repetition
from the early grades through university.
- As the process of writing can best be understood
by engaging in this process, teachers of writing should
write.
- Real change in classroom practice doesn't happen
all at once,but rather, over time.
- Effective professional development programs are
on-going and systematic, bringing teachers together
throughout their careers to examine successful practices
and new developments.
- What is known about the teaching of writing comes
not only from the research but from the practice of
those who teach writing.
- The National Writing Project, by promoting no single
"right" approach to the teaching of writing,
allows a critical examination of a variety of approaches
from a variety of sources.
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