To the Threshold: Profiles of Educators

A Collection of Profiles of Educators Written by Graduate Students at Teachers College, Columbia University. The Profiles of Educators Series is a biannual project culminating from a Teaching of Writing course taught by Erick Gordon at Teachers College, Columbia University. Graduate students in this course study the methods of teaching writing for publication by publishing themselves. This highlights the Student Press Initiative’s overall experiential learning approach to professional development: learn by doing. The work focuses upon the genre of profile writing. In end-of-the-semester reflections, many of the students name this as the most challenging and rewarding piece of writing they’ve ever done.