Prompt Question:
Choose one of the following and post your answer either as a new post or a comment to this one:
- What was the most valuable thing you learned this summer at the CWP?
- Who would you like to thank from our summer cohort? Why?
- What initiative, tool, and/or lesson are you MOST excited to implement next year?
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| And, on a side note... For Jen, Kelli, and Liz |
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Hahaha love that picture! I'm not sure if we're supposed to comment on the prompt yet...so I'm not going to...but I will work on getting a profile picture. See you all tomorrow!
ReplyDeleteHahaha geez you are on it! You and Bryan are already authors of the blog! And yes-- wait until tomorrow to post :) See you then!
ReplyDeleteThe most valuable thing I've learned at the CWP is: WRITE! We need to be writers in order to teach writing. This experience has given me the confidence to write and share my writing with others. I want my students to feel the same way about their pieces.
ReplyDeleteThe most important take away from the institute has been the variety of genres, activities, vehicles, purposes, and audiences to get ALL students excited about writing.
ReplyDeleteThis is going to sound very general, but the most valuable thing that I have learned and am going to use this upcoming year in my classroom is that to become better writers, we need to read, and to become better readers, we need to write. I intend to give my students more freedom to engage with low-stakes writing so that hopefully they can better develop their own voices as writers and intelligent thinkers. I will give more time for writing responses to questions (especially because most often, verbal responses get lost in the mix), and I do hope to utilize writers' notebooks so my students can keep their work organized!
ReplyDeleteEmily, I love the cat. LOL, at the beginning of first grade, I am that cat. Fortunately, by the end of the year, they are all reading at a quicker than glacial pace! So, getting back to the post, I am most excited to implement some of the technology tools that we have learned about during the institute. I actually have a blog set up, and I am going to use it for response to literature. Once or twice a week, I am going to require my students to respond to an interactive read-aloud. They may use the blog or their writing journals, because some of them don't have computer access. I am also going to use technology tools for publication of student writing. I think they will be more excited about writing when the carrot of publication is dangled. I'm thinking about using blogs, tweets, podcasts, Storybird, and PowerPoint for student publication this year. For the first time (in a long time), I'm excited about teaching writing :-)
ReplyDeleteI've used Edublog before, but now I'm excited about all the features in Blogger. Thanks for a great workshop :-).
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Howdy ho, friends. LOVE blogging. I'm a bit neurotic about it, but it truly is a great tool (notice - TOOL) for teaching. Like any motherboard, it requires a lot of management, but if you master it, it will be your friend.
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I am excited to try to use blogging in my EN11 class, and maybe in my Developmental Reading class. I know I'll make mistakes, but I'm hoping that my students will be able to help me! Last year I had all assignments emailed to me, but I really like the idea of everyone in the class being able to see and comment what everyone has written.
ReplyDeleteHola! Saludos! Como estan?
ReplyDeleteHello1 Greetings! How is everyone?
Thank you Emily, Wonderful presentation. You get an A from me.
What a great tool! I'm excited to try this out with my students-thanks, Emily! The most valuable thing that I am taking away from this summer institute is that in order to be a strong teacher of writing, you must write yourself. Your passion will not be recognized by your students unless you are fully engaged and immersed in writing. Students need to see teachers' processes, mistakes, and thinking as they work through their writing.
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