In Tom’s Classroom…
He has two non-negotiables:
He reads a poem at the beginning of every class meeting.
Students in his classes will write in different genres, not only expository essays.
He has two non-negotiables:
He reads a poem at the beginning of every class meeting.
Students in his classes will write in different genres, not only expository essays.
Tom taught English methods and writing at Miami University from 1995 to 2019. Before earning his Ph.D. at the University of New Hampshire, he taught high school students for 17 years, most of them at Edgewood High School in Trenton, Ohio. He also did a teaching stint in the English Department at Utah State University in Logan (1991-1995).
Tom got the writing bug in 7th grade when he and a friend wrote and shared stories in back-to-back study halls at the end of the school day. He discovered then that he could express his voice through words on paper. He's been doing it ever since, writing mostly articles, essays, and poems about teaching. His books, published by Heinemann, are Clearing the Way: Working with Teenage Writers (1987), Writing with Passion: Life Stories, Multiple Genres (1995), Blending Genre, Altering Style: Writing Multigenre Papers (2000), Crafting Authentic Voice (2004), and Zigzag: A Life in Reading and Writing, Teaching and Learning (2008). His latest book is Write What Matters (2015), which can be purchased through Amazon. |
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