Becoming a Teacher Who Writes - Let Teaching be your Writing Muse - Nancy S. Gorrell

Becoming a Teacher Who Writes - Let Teaching be your Writing Muse - Nancy S. Gorrell

18. Discovering the Teacher-Artist Within

Becoming a Teacher Who Writes - Let Teaching be your Writing Muse - Nancy S. Gorrell

Nancy S. Gorrell [+-]
English teacher and poet
Nancy S. Gorrell is an award-winning English teacher, author, and poet. Her previously published book (with Erin Colfax) in this series is Writing Poetry through the Eyes of Science: A Teacher’s Guide to Scientific Literacy ad Poetic Response (Equinox, 2012). She is currently Director of the SSBJCC Holocaust Memorial and Education Center Survivor Registry, Bridgewater, NJ.

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Chapter 18 introduces the concept of teacher-artist, offering model projects that embrace three or more subject areas, art forms, or disciplines. The author begins with her own “Teacher-Artist Story” in the context of her creative writing classroom: how she responded to the “teachable moment,” how her students responded in writing, and how the project “Artifacts: Kids Respond to a World in Crisis was created. The author’s students wrote ecphrastic poems to the “lost works of art” which were in the World Trade Center on 9/11. The author mailed the poems to Scholastic Writing and Art Awards and asked them to forward them to the young artists whose works were destroyed. The remainder of Chapter 18 features model teaching artist projects. Part Three offers Inter-Arts Projects: “Jersey Rain (creative writing, poetry, musical composition, choral performance) and an “Our Town” Inter-Arts Book Project (poetry of place, ecphrasis, photography, self-publishing). Part Four Interdisciplinary Applications for Students and Teachers offers a total of four model across-the-curriculum projects involving teachers, scientists, and teaching artists: Science Poetry: Interdisciplinary Literacy Tool; Anne Osbourne’s Science, Art and Writing Initiative; CuriousSCIENCEwriters; and Youth Birding Alaska. The author concludes Chapter 18 by encouraging teacher artists to engage with their students in creating inter-arts and interdisciplinary projects to improve artistic, ecological, and scientific literacy.

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Gorrell, Nancy S.. 18. Discovering the Teacher-Artist Within. Becoming a Teacher Who Writes - Let Teaching be your Writing Muse. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 347-382 Oct 2024. ISBN 9781845536381. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=45169. Date accessed: 07 Oct 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.45169. Oct 2024

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