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If I were to ask a middle or high school teacher one thing, I think I would ask them what is the most important thing to them as a teacher? In other words, why do you teach and what is the most important thing to you about teaching? I think this question is important toContinue reading “What Is Most Important to You as a Teacher?”

When teaching writing to young students it is important to discuss and assign diverse topics related to social justice. Teaching students to write about diverse and cultural topics will help them grow as writers. It challenges them to think about other topics aside from the standardized subjects that they are used to learning. Also itContinue reading “Challenges With Social Justice in Writing”

Within my experiences during WRT 392 we have learned many ways in which we can help encourage students to believe and trust in their writing. Having students feel encouraged in their writing will help them in a vast majority of ways. The students will feel more inclined to do the assignments which will thus helpContinue reading “Encouraging Young Writers in the Classroom”

In chapter 3 of The Six Academic Writing Assignments, Jim Burke discusses the topic of Writing on Demand (WOD) and why it is important for students to be assigned it and what it is exactly. Jim Burke categorizes writing on demand as writing situation where students are given a prompt and are given a specificContinue reading “Preparing Students for Writing in the Classroom”

As a future teacher of writing it may be hard for some of us to figure out what we can do to make sure we are teaching authentic and informative writing. Students must be able to write for different audiences other than their teachers. In a blog post called Writing in the Work World, theyContinue reading “Keeping it Real in the Classroom”

As silly as it sounds, before taking WRT 392 I thought there was only one specific way to be taught writing in secondary and middle school classrooms. I assumed that my teachers were doing their job the way that they were supposed to when it came to teaching my peers and I in the correctContinue reading “The Student Becomes the Teacher”

In reading the article they explain the types of challenges and differences that people encounter from the writing that they were taught in school compared to the writing that they do now. The people who wrote the blog discussed how they asked people in their lives to show some examples of their writing. Although theyContinue reading “Challenges in Preparing Young Writers”

After reading all of the known high school gaps I was shocked to see that almost every single one that I read was something that I experienced in high school. I recall the style gap resonating with me the most however though. Writing structured essays in school no matter what class I was in theContinue reading “High School Gaps in Education”

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Introduce Yourself (Example Post)”