Chapter 1: Teaching Writing: A Matter of Identity, Disposition, and Standard Practice

English Educators and secondary English teachers have contributed to a gap between what new teachers learn about how to teach and what they feel they are allowed to practice in the classroom. To address this gap, we argue that English professionals at the university and in the secondary schools should join together to reframe the discipline’s identity; accommodate the “back to basics” critics, but on our terms; and embrace the teaching standards already set by NCTE/IRA.