In secondary schools, English teachers are often made responsible for writing results in national testing. Yet there have been few studies that focussed on this key group, or on how pedagogical practices have been impacted in the teaching of writing in their classrooms. This study investigated practices of English teachers in four secondary schools across different states, systems and regions. It developed a novel method of case study at a distance that required no classroom presence or school visits for the researchers and allowed a multi-sited and geographically dispersed design. Teachers were invited to select classroom artefacts pertaining to the teaching of writing in their English classes, compile individualised e-portfolios and reflect on these items in writing and in digitally conducted interviews, as well as elaborating on their broader philosophies and feelings about the teaching of writing. Despite and sometimes because of NAPLAN, these teachers held strong views on explicit teaching of elements of writing, but approached these in different ways. The artefacts that they created animated their teaching practices, connected them to their students and their subject, suggested both the pressure of externally driven homogenising approaches to writing and the creative individualised responses of skilled teachers within their unique contexts. In addition to providing granular detail about pedagogical practices in the teaching of writing in the NAPLAN era, the contribution of this paper lies in its methodological adaptation of case study at a distance through teacher-curated artefact portfolios that enabled a deep dive into individual teachers’ practices.

在中学，英语教师通常负责在国家考试中撰写结果。然而，很少有研究关注这一关键群体，或关注教学实践如何影响课堂写作教学。本研究调查了不同州、系统和地区的四所中学的英语教师的实践。它开发了一种新的远距离案例研究方法，无需研究人员在教室或学校访问，并允许多地点和地理分散的设计。邀请教师在英语课上选择与写作教学有关的课堂文物，编制个性化的电子档案，并在书面和数字进行的采访中反思这些项目，以及详细阐述他们对写作教学的更广泛的哲学和感受。尽管有时因为 NAPLAN，这些教师对写作元素的明确教学持有强烈的看法，但以不同的方式处理这些问题。他们创造的人工制品激发了他们的教学实践，将他们与他们的学生和他们的学科联系起来，既表明了外部驱动的同质化写作方法的压力，也表明了熟练教师在其独特背景下的创造性个性化反应。除了提供有关 NAPLAN 时代写作教学中教学实践的详细信息，