Contest for Writing Teachers Seeks Teaching Tips

New York, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Writing teachers can turn their favorite teaching tricks into gold in a contest aimed at gathering best practices for teaching writing in the classroom. The contest, sponsored by The Writing Teacher (www.thewritingteacher.org), We Are Teachers (www.weareteachers.com), and LearningExpress eFoliotm (www.thewritingteacher.org/about-efolio/) rewards the best ideas submitted by teachers as judged by their peers. Now through December 15, 2008, teachers who submit tips at http://contest.thewritingteacher.org and garner at least ten votes will win a copy of any book in the LearningExpress English Language Arts series. The top eight finalists will win a full classroom set of any single title in the series and two winners who receive the most votes will each win a Flip Video camera.

"A teaching tip contest is an ideal way to engage teachers," said Farimah Schuerman, one of the founders of The Writing Teacher. "Experienced teachers can submit their best techniques for teaching writing skills to students - tips that all teachers can use and vote on which techniques they believe are most effective."

The We Are Teachers online community is ideal for hosting the Writing Teacher Tip Contest, with tens of thousands of teachers looking to share teaching tools, and thousands more teachers accessing the I Am Teacher Facebook application. The Writing Teacher Tip Contest can be seen at http://contest.thewritingteacher.org.

Writing is a core 21st Century skill, requiring students to use critical skills to organize their thinking and articulate their message while engaging their audience. With fewer than one-third of US students writing at grade-level proficiency, The Writing Teacher exists to bring together educators to find and disseminate best teaching practices, and raise the bar on student writing performance.

About The Writing Teacher

The Writing Teacher (www.thewritingteacher.org) is a free online resource for teachers and educators who want to improve their students' writing. The mission of The Writing Teacher is to help improve student writing proficiency through sharing best instructional practices for the classroom. The Writing Teacher publishes two articles per month on different aspects of writing by teachers, professors, and other expert educators and provides a forum for teachers and educators to share ideas.

About LearningExpress eFolio(TM)

LearningExpress eFolio(TM) is an instantly scored online writing improvement program that provides unlimited writing practice and instant diagnostic feedback based on NWREL's 6 traits of writing. eFolio helps students learn to write better by engaging them to write more often and by proving the diagnostic feedback needed to identify their weaknesses. eFolio helps teachers by freeing them from the time consuming burden of scoring essays, so they have more time to focus on teaching. LearningExpress eFolio(TM) sponsors The Writing Teacher as part of its commitment to improve student writing.

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