3. It Takes Courage and Heart
Becoming a Teacher Who Writes - Let Teaching be your Writing Muse - Nancy S. Gorrell
Nancy S. Gorrell [+]
English teacher and poet
Description
Chapter 3 presents the book’s central premise – that courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible – and that it takes courage to teach any discipline. The author demonstrates the premise through a teaching story of a mathematics teacher. This chapter encourages teachers to give themselves more credit. It takes courage to teach a subject like writing or writing within a discipline when student and teacher are co-learners. The remainder of Chapter 3 explores and defines the terminology and scholarship of courage and creative courage, “the heart of our teaching.” In “What I Learned” the author discusses discarding “the tyranny of perfection.” Chapter 3 concludes with Interdisciplinary Applications for Teachers and Students and “Responding to Courage, Creative Courage, and Moral Courage” writing prompts.