For my self-selected piece I will explore how me being an educator has impacted my daughters learning I think.. Storytelling is the idea that I’m thinking about. We shall see, I will be working on this. Hopefully complete by Sunday. Revision is re-seeing my writing. Page by page. Paragraph by paragraph. Sentence by sentence. Word by word, with my audience in mind.
REVISION STRATEGY # 6
Ok writing partners Jessie & Meredith, for my self-selected piece I am thinking about exploring how my career/education has an impact on my daughters’ schooling. This is important to me because I want to really look into how my choices and what I think is important is pushed/portrayed through their decision making. As a single parent and raising my daughters and knowing that education is important- I want to look into the ways how this has an impact on them. For my self-inquiring, I am learning a lot of ways through SI and my readings that I can strenghthen this skill of revision in my classroom.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Self Selected Piece
As I explore revision and how do I get my 8th Graders doing more of it; my self-directed piece may tell a story of how an educator can have an impact on his/her real-children.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Wobbling Thoughts
As I continue in S.I. the more my brain is all over the place on things I can inquire about. My inquiry revolved around revision to reading comprehension to using relevant text to captivate readers interest. I am getting ready to start Writing Without Teachers by Peter Elbow and I have Writing Workshops by Ralph Fletcher to finish. I am reading Before I Fall just for entertainment.
Still balancing time as being a mom, teaching, to now being a Senior Mary Kay Consultant, and now to making plans to pursue my PhD. I am excited and motivated for all the changes and different paths I am going to take. As I continue to read to perfect my pedagogy, I'm learning about wobble and how my mind is all over the place. I look at myself as a doctor who is trying different methods to perfect her skills; also to get my students thinking outside the four walls of school.--real life.
Still balancing time as being a mom, teaching, to now being a Senior Mary Kay Consultant, and now to making plans to pursue my PhD. I am excited and motivated for all the changes and different paths I am going to take. As I continue to read to perfect my pedagogy, I'm learning about wobble and how my mind is all over the place. I look at myself as a doctor who is trying different methods to perfect her skills; also to get my students thinking outside the four walls of school.--real life.
My Guest for the 2012 Summer Institute
Who Is She?
In third grade, she had to write a biography about a famous person. She plagiarized everything from the encyclopedia about Abraham Lincoln. When her peers was presenting, she discovered that she did her assignment incorrectly and did not bother to present her piece.
What Happened Next?
She was determined and continued to write; making sure she understood her writing assignments' directions. She enjoyed writing poetry, song lyrics, stories, and in eighth grade and up, she was writing research papers.
What Stayed The Same?
To this day she continues to write and carries that on to the students she comes in contact with and with her own children.
And This Guest Is ME!
In third grade, she had to write a biography about a famous person. She plagiarized everything from the encyclopedia about Abraham Lincoln. When her peers was presenting, she discovered that she did her assignment incorrectly and did not bother to present her piece.
What Happened Next?
She was determined and continued to write; making sure she understood her writing assignments' directions. She enjoyed writing poetry, song lyrics, stories, and in eighth grade and up, she was writing research papers.
What Stayed The Same?
To this day she continues to write and carries that on to the students she comes in contact with and with her own children.
And This Guest Is ME!
Monday, July 9, 2012
Technology Feedback Vs. Face to Face Feedback
In a world where technology is it, there is an ongoing discussion as to what is effective feedback. Face to face or technology related. As an educator, it is imperative that we learn how give feedback in both ways. Face time feedback still requires you to make positive statements about what your peer has done well. In addition, to adding what ideas he/she can add to further support their writing; synonymous to feedback via technology Using technology may perhaps help you to add more effects, images, copy & paste, and add things quicker (for some). Both skills are important for us to be familiar with and making sure our commentsn are uplifting no matter what.
Self Inquiry
I want to focus on how to explicitly teach my students on how to revise their work. So far my thoughts are to continue to model the process in front of them. Students should know every detail of our thoughts and how we come up with ideas of things to write about. Creating a safe environment for my students to write and share their writing is number one. Based on Writing Workshop by Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi, teachers should share their writings with students. Or even read a short story to get students thinking about ideas they can write about that spins off that piece of literature.
When we share our personal stories with them that gives them that safe place/forum where they are not going to be judged. Also, with my writing, students can answer the following questions: What worked or made sense in my writing? What other choices of words or ideas I can add? With their positive feedback, I can then add these suggestions to my writing as I enter into the revision phase.
When we share our personal stories with them that gives them that safe place/forum where they are not going to be judged. Also, with my writing, students can answer the following questions: What worked or made sense in my writing? What other choices of words or ideas I can add? With their positive feedback, I can then add these suggestions to my writing as I enter into the revision phase.
Friday, July 6, 2012
SI 2 Questions??
My question that I would like to explore is how to get my students revising their work ?? So often students and adults are happy with that first initial writing. However, everytime one reads his or her piece over again things can always be changed to make things sound better and clarify meaning.
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