Writing to Grow: Keeping a Personal-Professional Journal

by Mary Louise Hurlbert Holly

Book Overview

Contains directions and practical ideas for keeping a personal and professional journal as a means of professional development. Presenting examples from teachers' journals, the book is based on the premise that teachers' observations can help them determine their own directions for change.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0435084941
• ISBN13: 9780435084943
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8

Customer Reviews

Writing to Grow: Keeping a Personal-Professional Journal

This book describes how keeping a journal can facilitate observation, documentation and reflection on current and past experiences. It describes how one's life history and the social and historical and eduational conditions can direct the present. Mary Louise Holly includes excellent examples of diaries and journals of beginning and experienced eduators, administrators, teacher-educators as well as noted writers such as Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Ashton-Warner.The book is divided into two parts. Part one, deals with the description of personal documents, their uses, and the people who keep them. The different types of journal writings include reflective writings and the benefits associated with the writings. Part two, the methodological or practical part, invites the reader to write and provides examples and suggestions for journal writing. This section emphasizes how practice derives form and acts as a catalyst for theorizing. This book is an excellent resource which depicts the different type of writings that have proven to be an essential tool for the educator.