Fire the Imagination, Write On! - Paperback

by Dorit Winter (Author)

How can teachers develop strong writing skills in their students in classroom and in life? Clarity and precision, empathy, and calls-to- action happen when the writing stimulates a clear response. Capacities in writers take practice and focus and refined skill in a teacher. Fire the Imagination - Write On! is a vehicle for developing those teaching skills that, in turn, develop writing skills in the young and old. The rigor of the lessons makes for engagement and plain old fun in working hard on good writing. Just the ticket for middle and high school youngsters - effective with adults as well!

Author Biography

Dorit Winter, MA, brings a cosmopolitan background to all her undertakings. Born in Jerusalem in 1947, she attended kindergarten in Zürich, primary school in Johannesburg and Cape Town, and junior and senior high schools in New York City, graduating from the Rudolf Steiner High School in 1964. Dorit began her Waldorf career in 1973 as a German and class teacher at the Rudolf Steiner School in New York City. Seven years later, she joined the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School, where she coordinated the founding of a new high school. In 1989 she became founder and director of Rudolf Steiner College's satellite teacher training program in San Francisco. In 2001 she accepted the directorship of Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training, from which she retired in 2014. A former member of the Hague Circle/International Forum of Waldorf/Steiner Schools, Dorit continues to travel nationally and internationally to lecture, give workshops, and teach. A full listing of her Waldorf activities can be found at www.doritwinterwaldorf.com Dorit's work as a painter influenced her "pictorial" approach to writing. Her paintings can be viewed at www.doritwinter.com