Teaching

Students need teaching that supports their writing every single day. There is whole class teaching in the form of focus lessons, small grorp teaching and indivdual teaching. The teachers have spent a lot of time developing their curriculum knowledge.

As a highschool teacher I would use the writing workshop as a way to have the students interact with each other in groups, and also have them peer review each others work. I feel that group work amongst students teaches social skills. Through conversation with their peers, students can develop new ideas for their essays, and research papers. My role as a teacher would be to encourage the class to be creative and to write throughouly. - Jessica

I think in this particular classroom, maybe there would need to be more teacher interaction with the writing. Such as, giving the students certain prompts or questions that they can answer maybe about their rougth drafts that way when they are thinking about writing their final drafts, it becomes easier for them to have something to focus on. Other than that, I don't really see problems with this idea. -- Megan

I agree there would need to be more teacher interaction. I know when i was in high school we got to talk to our teachers one by one with our drafts and she would tell us what we did good on and what we did not so good on. It builds up confidence in wrinting when you can interact with the teacher and not just be imtimidated by the teacher and how he/she grades. Also you are more confident when you see just what exactly you need to work on to improve your writing.