Terence Young

Year: 2008 – Province: British Columbia

Certificate of Excellence Recipients

School: St. Michaels University School
3400 Richmond Road
Victoria, British Columbia
V8P 4P5

Principal: Kathy Roth
School Telephone: 250-592-2411
School Fax: 250-592-2812
School Email: scott.wouters@lpsd.ca
School Website: www.smus.bc.ca
Subjects and Grades Taught: English, creative writing and English literature in Grades 10 and 12

Teaching Approach

• Model successful and sustainable behaviour to students: "show" and encourage students to "do."
• Create opportunities for students to write outside a traditional academic environment to develop their creativity.
• Shift focus to cover a variety of genres and styles to ensure students gain the versatility they require to be creative writers.
• Always be inspired and excited about what you are teaching: "Teachers who are excited about their subject are better teachers."

Outstanding Achievements

• Inspires excellence in creative writing. Many of his students have won honours in distinguished Canadian and international student writing contests. A partial list includes the BC Teachers of English and Language Arts Annual Writing Competition, the Ripple Effect Press Awards, the Canadian League of Poets Contest, the Princeton Poetry Prize competition, and a British competition for young poets.
• Created the Writing 12 course, in which students spend half the year writing poetry and the other half short fiction. Writing 12 is now taught at several schools throughout BC
• Co-founded The Claremont Review, now in its 17th year, to publish fiction by young adults.

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