Fostering Writer Identity Using Creative Writing of Young Adult Literature in English Teacher Education (019)
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This session will outline how one English teacher educator uses creative writing in English teacher education to foster student identity in writing, teach practical writing strategies and skills, and use student interest to meet writing standards.
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T. Hunter Strickland, Ph.D.
T. Hunter Strickland, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Reading, Literacy and Language at Georgia College & State University. He received his Ph.D. in Language and Literacy Education with a focus on English Education at the University of Georgia where he studied the young adult literature methods course in secondary English teacher education programs across the United States. His teaching at GCSU focuses on adolescent literacy including secondary content area literacy, and English education. Through his understanding of young adult literature pedagogy, he believes that the best literacy teachers of any grade level are teachers who foster their own identities as readers and writers. His research interests are in young adult literature methods and pedagogy within secondary English teacher preparation programs and adolescent literacy.