Everyone knows that writing is a craft and not just any regular teacher can coach a student into brilliant writing.  Great teachers come along once every great while so it’s important to know what they’re doing right and how you can best learn from them.

Roy Peter Clark points this out in “What the Best Writing Teachers Do, How Students Can Learn From Them.”

According to Clark, the best writing teachers:

• Encourage daily writing
• Do not bleed red ink all over every paper, but finds other ways to assess student work
• Write with the students
• Teach writing as a process and confer with students during the process
• Connect the dots between reading and writing
• Get students to talk (over and over and over again) about writing
• Offer praise and encouragement along with correction
• Revise, revise, revise
• Never use writing as a punishment
• Teach spelling and grammar within writing
• Believe that all students can improve

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