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Deborah Dean is a former secondary English teacher who always wanted to teach the writing classes. She now teaches pre-service and practicing teachers about writing and has taught remediation courses at a local high school as a volunteer. She is the author of Genre Theory: Teaching, Writing, and Being and Strategic Writing: The Writing Process and Beyond in the Secondary Classroom and numerous articles in national and regional journals. She has presented at numerous conferences and served as a consultant to several school districts, working with language arts teachers as well as teachers in content areas to develop writing instruction and improve students’ writing skills.
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Deborah Dean's Selected Presentations
Presentation Topics
| Deborah presents workshops on teaching composition/writing; language and grammar; using picture books to teach writing, language, style, and reading; and reflection. |
Deborah's NCTE Web Seminar Presentation
|  View the PPT from Deborah's Web seminar presentation Becoming Strategic Teachers, Teaching Strategic Writers on April 16, 2008. The On Demand Archive version is available as a FREE product for purchase in the NCTE store. |
Previous Presenting and Consulting Experiences
| Deborah Dean has presented at IRA, NCTE, WPA, and CCCC conventions, as well as the Utah NCTE affiliate and secondary literacy conferences. |
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Published Works by Deborah Dean
Genre Theory: Teaching, Writing, and Being
|  In Deborah's second book with NCTE she synthesizes theory and research about genres and provides secondary-level teachers with practical classroom applications. |
Strategic Writing: The Writing Process and Beyond in the Secondary English Classroom
|  Deborah Dean introduces postprocess theory to high school English teachers in a practical, classroom-based way. The book includes writing assignments, student writing samples, and resources. |
Published Works
| Deborah has published in several national and state publications. |
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Education and Professional Experiences
| Deborah has degrees in composition/pedagogy, curriculum and instruction, and English. She taught high school English before coming to Brigham Young University and is now an associate professor in the English department. She recently won an outstanding teaching award from BYU. |
ReadWriteThink.org Lesson Plans Developed
|  Deborah believes students need to be engaged to learn and it is important to use interesting lessons based on sound principles. This is the basis for her interest in writing several lessons for www.Readwritethink.org. Lessons include: "Once Upon a Fairy Tale: Teaching Revision as a Concept," "Teaching Text Patterns for Comparing and Contrasting," and "Letters and Learning Genre." |
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