“Middle school is the time for students to take what they learned in elementary school and develop it into coherent thoughts for communication. It’s the time to develop their own writing voice.” As teachers under pressure from mandates and… Continue Reading →
If you’re going to contribute something, then you have to be able to write it. Writing is the record of human life, so what we are recording means something. Maybe in a hundred years they won’t get it, but at… Continue Reading →
Writing and thinking are not distinct processes. You don’t really know what you think until you put it down on the page and enforce some kind of discipline and organization upon it. I stress writing as a means of organizing… Continue Reading →
“The most important writing philosophy I’ve developed over the past couple of years is that it has to be authentic writing. If it’s something students know others are reading, or if they write something that could actually make a change… Continue Reading →
“First and foremost, I want writing to be something that my students aren’t afraid of, which is very difficult at the middle school level because writing is very hard. It’s my goal to encourage strengths first before we review their… Continue Reading →
“In our efforts to help students learn, I think we are often overlooking something that’s easy to implement, which is to use writing as a way to reinforce and foster the learning of content knowledge. The idea that good writing… Continue Reading →
“Writing gives my students a deeper understanding of any content that I teach. If I simply give them a list of things to memorize, they’re going to cram for a test and then forget it; however, if I can get… Continue Reading →
As a teacher, I faced a dilemma regarding my students’ levels of readiness in understanding and effectively using figurative language and imagery to create meaningful messages. They struggled with ways to utilized design aesthetics when presenting information and in understanding… Continue Reading →
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