17. Writing About Your Students and Your Discipline
Becoming a Teacher Who Writes - Let Teaching be your Writing Muse - Nancy S. Gorrell
Nancy S. Gorrell [+]
English teacher and poet
Description
Chapter 17 presents teacher-writers writing about their students and disciplines affirming this book’s central thesis – that teaching and learning are inextricably bound and that teaching is our writing muse. In “Writing about Your Students,” the author offers model contributor poems by Amy Uyematsu, math teacher: “When Geometry Gets Mixed Up with God and the Alphabet” and Juan’s Numbers.” In “Writing about Your Discipline,” the author offers Amy Uyematsu’s poem “The Invention of Mathematics” which explores her passion for numbers – rational and irrational – and her passion for language and wordplay. Chapter 17 concludes with aquatic ecologist Arthur J. Stewart’s discipline-related poems, “Professor Thermocline” and “Limnology Quiz,” followed by Interdisciplinary Applications for Teachers and Students and a “Writing about Your Discipline” writing prompt.