Teaching writing today: Research findings and exemplary practice

The VATE Teaching Writing Today Study was undertaken as the result of a successful 2018 funding bid by Deakin University and a group of allied teacher researchers for funds made available through VATE for research into the teaching of English. Teacher researchers included Helen Billett, Mandy Goff, Andrea Hayes, Tim Mannix and Elisse Hay.The study sought to answer the following question:• How are Victorian English teachers designing curriculum for teaching writing?The study also addressed the following sub-questions:• What resources do teachers draw on in this work?• How is this work perceived to have changed over time?• What are the various discourses and practices involved, both in planning itself and in chosen pedagogies?• How do teachers perceive students are faring as emergent writers in the curriculum contexts described?• What different kinds of professionalism are enacted in this work? This article shares the findings from research and models exemplary practice.