Tim Dewar is a Teaching Professor in the Department of Education. His scholarship focuses on English education, with a particular interest in the teaching of writing. He divides his teaching between the teacher education program and the Learning, Teaching and Teacher Education (LTTE) strand of the Education Department.
Dewar is interested in writing instruction and assessment, how teachers come to frame the challenges they encounter in student work, and sustainable teacher identities. As a result of these interests, he is the single subject teaching credential coordinator for the teacher education program, director of the South Coast Writing Project (SCWriP), and executive director of the California Writing Project (CWP). It is his work with new and veteran teachers that drives his scholarship.
Dewar earned his Ph.D. in education, language, literacy and composition from the Gevirtz School in 2008, working closely with his adviser, Sheridan Blau. Prior to coming to UC Santa Barbara in 2010, he was an assistant professor at SUNY New Paltz and taught secondary English in public and private schools throughout California.