Archive for the ‘writing’ Category
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
Professor Donald Graves of New Hampshire University recently died of pneumonia at the age of 80. In the early 1980's his research on student writing which became known as "process writing" had a profound influence on Australian educators including me.
His book proved an inspiration to me. I was frustrated at that time ...
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Recently, a professional learning team from Elsternwick Primary, visited a school, Courtenay Garden's P.S. in Victoria that focused on non fiction writing implementing the research of Douglas Reeves.
Courtenay Gardens P.S. ,a school located in the growth corridior of the outer south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, has 850 students. The school has students from a ...
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Sunday, April 12th, 2009
It seems writing is now more in focus than reading.
Over the last 6 months I have heard and read a great deal about the power of writing and how the model needs to change in schools. I wrote about Douglas Reeves using the 90/90/90 schools research as a case for ...
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