Master the Craft of Writing with Dr Ian Hunter

Posted by Writer's Toolbox | Dec 7, 2024

Special 1-Day Event!

Make 2025 a very different year for your school’s writing outcomes.

Spend the day with the Founder of Writer’s Toolbox Dr Ian Hunter as he explores the craft of writing and examines how to transform your school writing performance. Backed by research and proven outcomes, you’ll learn explicit strategies to improve student writing performance, boost confidence—bring joy back to writing—and deliver lasting change in your school.

Come along and be part of this action-packed event:

Watch your own skill as a writer and teacher of writing lift across the day.
Understand key barriers to student writing improvement AND how to remove them.
Learn the most effective order to teach writing, and how explicit writing skills can be taught in a complete scope and sequence from Prep to 12.
Explore a whole school common-language for writing.
Discover key writing skills absent from today’s curriculum that are limiting student performance.
Learn strategies to effectively model writing to your students.
Discover FIVE key connections between sentence fluency and improved writing and academic performance.
Learn practical strategies to help struggling writers and students who lack confidence.
Discover how PEEL and similar paragraph structures are limiting student performance.
Learn student-friendly paragraph structures to produce deeper, more thoughtful responses across the curriculum.
Experience for yourself the award-winning Writer’s Toolbox online tool and see the change it can make in the classroom.

Suitable for teachers and school leaders across all levels and subject areas.

Writer’s Toolbox is an educational writing programme powered by patented AI. Designed to help students master writing—without doing the work for them—Writer’s Toolbox gives real-time, individualised feedback at scale: in every topic, for every student, at their most teachable moments. Writer’s Toolbox arose out of the university research and teachings of Associate Professor Ian Hunter. Concerned about the writing ability in his own university students in the late 1990s, Dr Hunter began what has cumulated into a 25-year action research project.

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Founder of Writer’s Toolbox Dr Ian Hunter

During his 20-year academic career, Ian held positions at four universities. He has given invited lectures at Oxford University and York, and in 2010 was Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Reading University (UK). Ian’s early research was in management and organisation and entrepreneurship, and he has taught extensively these areas. Completing a PhD in history, Ian then looked more deeply into the historical trends and influences in these areas and his research has been published in some of the world’s leading academic journals, including Business History and Harvard’s Business History Review. He is a bestselling author and award-winning academic with over 100 publications, including 20 books. Ian’s PhD on the entrepreneur and 19th Century economic development was a finalist in New Zealand’s Montana Book Awards.

Spearheading executive education and the teaching of innovation, Ian served for six years as Director of the University of Auckland Business Case Centre, producing teaching cases for executive education in New Zealand and Europe. In addition, he has worked as a consultant to government and multinationals in the areas of innovation, creativity, economic development, and education.

In the years since 2011, Ian has taken these learnings and worked extensively in education with the team behind Writer’s Toolbox. He is a regular conference speaker and has a passion for seeing teachers and students given the best possible opportunity for educational and life success.

Dr Hunter holds two fundamental beliefs. That every student can be taught to write well—grasping the life possibilities they deserve. And that the teacher is the dynamic force for change in the classroom.

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