I have really enjoyed this workshop/class this week. I have learned many useful things that I think will help me in increasing writing in my classroom. I have always been afraid or unsure of what exactly I needed to be doing with my students as far as writing went. Also I hated the part about having to grade all the writing that I assigned. I do feel now that I can handle this and know that I need to relax in my expectations of my students on the low stakes writing. I can't expect them for be perfect all the time. :-) Lorri has been the one to teach writing in our classroom and I gladly let her choose to do that, but now I can see where I can also include writing in the other subject areas to correlate to what she has been doing. This class has helped me to relax as a writer myself to work on papers that I need to do in the near future for various purposes.
I have finally finished my first draft of my paper. I am not completely happy with it, but hope through the peer editing, I can make the improvements it needs to make it better. Even though I hate it when someone reads my work and makes comments about it, I do feel better afterwards and make changes to make it sound better. Now I know how my students feel about writing.
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I am also pretty much finished with my paper, but I too get nervous when someone else reads my work. I do enjoy hearing their comments.
Ditto on what you said, Michele, especially the last paragraph. I feel the same way!
I think we all get uncomfortable when others read our work. I'm sure yours will be great. I'm not completely satisfied with my paper either, but at least it did help me by finding some new ways to use the journals in my room.
Michele, I agree with you. I know your paper will be great. I do woory about other people reading my paper,too. I hope it is good. I also think it is hard to teach writing. I think the ideas we received this week will help.
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