You have just sent several sessions listening and viewing the presentations of your peers. Please comment on the activity on share one best practice that you took away from each presentation.
I was able to come across many practices that can be used in the classroom from the presentations that I viewed for the past few sessions. Essentials on teaching writing by Abigail Williams and Corrie Lawrence spoke on Think-alouds and how the teacher demonstrates his/her thinking process during the writing process in order to give a more visual approach about the writing process and teach key skills and concepts in writing.
Using Writing to Promote Critical Engagement and Participation by Tazurie Blanchette-Alexander and Shanice Ward spoke about gallery writing. This activity caught my attention because of how useful it can be in helping tudents to critique their writing and build on their knowledge of writing. Best Practices in Writing Instruction by Radhames Warner and Marcia Rawlings shined light on summarizing which is a common writing strategy. This strategy involves taking main /key points from the text and putting them in a more simpler form.
Teaching Informational and nonfiction writing to primary students by Robvecia Hazel, Leonest Edinborough and Tatyana Browne spoke about the steps for informational writing. These steps include exploring, gathering info, organizing and focusing.
Trends in Teaching Writing presentation by Tamia Martin & Shaniqua Belle taught me about the writer's workshop. It showed how writers workshops help to build fluency in writing through repeated exposure to the process of writing.
Overall, each presentation was inofrmative and I was able to learn multiple writing strategies and activities.
Each piece was very insightful and better instructed me to help promote writing in the class room by using these new found practices.
Shaniqua and Tamia's piece was greatly appreciated as i was able to behold the newly found concept of writing conferences which would be a great practice in writing instruction.
Robvicia, Leonest and Tatyana's piece on informational writing helped show me the process by which students can best learn to write while moving away from fiction.
Shanice and Tazurie's shared a new strategy known as the gallery walk which would better help students in engagement for writing instruction.
Treasure and Azuree's well detailed presentation opened up a whole new world to writing and instructing on writing through technology. The use of blogs for example was a great way to extend and document students writing range using a timely and readily available platform.
The presentation on the essentials of teaching writing by Abigail and Corrie was a much appreciated addition as it opens up to the importance writing instruction has in the classroom and how it can be better expounded upon by activities such as write alouds. The write aloud will not only serve as stimulation, but also a greater means of instruction for children as a sort of discovery learning.
Last but not least, the presentation from Marcia and I was thought to be well put together and expressing the general best practices in writing. The one which stood out the most would be setting product goals which much like in any other subject is a necessity in order to properly achieve affective instruction, and does this by expounding on S.M.A.R.T aspects.
I truly enjoyed the previous sessions as they were very informative and engaging. It is indeed a true statement that states, students retain more information when they are engaged in their own learning. I have learnt quite a lot while researching to prepare and present our group's presentation on "Using Writing to Promote Critical Engagement and Participation" however, all other presentations brought much incite that I can use to promote writing in my classroom.
Our first presentation by Shaniqua and Tamia's on Trends in Teaching Writing Scaffolding Writing was quite interesting. As a primary school teacher I will surely incorporate the writing workshop in my lessons. Writing workshops are student-centered frameworks for teaching writing that is based on the idea that students learn to write best when they write frequently, for extended periods of time, on topics of their own choosing. This can be done through continuous, repeated exposure to the process of writing. Students would need to take ownership of their own writing with guidance from an experienced writer/ the teacher.
The presentation on "Teaching Informational and Nonfiction Writing to primary students" by Robvecia, Leonest and Tatyana. They expressed the importance of scaffolding students' composition/writing. Additionally they explained the eight steps of informational writing that I find very important when engaging students in writing. Students should explore, gather, organize, focus, select, order, draft, revise.
Treasure and Azuree's presentation on "Integrating Technology into Writing" was quite interesting. Technology helps students to become creative with their writing and it also helps teachers to be more creative with their teaching. Technology brings a different feeling to the classroom and can be used to engage students in using different tools to write including blogs and also the digital writers notebook that we are currently engaged in using.
The presentation on The Essentials of Teaching Writing by Abigail and Corrie was also very informative. I found the model of explicit instruction to be very useful. I would definitely use this model to help my students become competent independent writers. One of the important points I noted and will implement from this presentation is that as a teacher i should give students time to write "to learn the skills and strategies necessary to become effective writers, as well as time to practice what they learn. Time for writing practice can help students gain confidence in their writing abilities."
The final presentation by Marcia and Radhames on "Best Practices in Writing Instruction" One of the key point that I intent to mimic is to Set Product Goals for my students as it is the best way to them down the intended path of instruction. Additionally, another important point was Process Writing. This will help students to gradually improve their writing skills as they engage in writing tasks or meaningful activities in small step by step proportions.
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ReplyDeleteI was able to come across many practices that can be used in the classroom from the presentations that I viewed for the past few sessions. Essentials on teaching writing by Abigail Williams and Corrie Lawrence spoke on Think-alouds and how the teacher demonstrates his/her thinking process during the writing process in order to give a more visual approach about the writing process and teach key skills and concepts in writing.
ReplyDeleteUsing Writing to Promote Critical Engagement and Participation by Tazurie Blanchette-Alexander and Shanice Ward spoke about gallery writing. This activity caught my attention because of how useful it can be in helping tudents to critique their writing and build on their knowledge of writing.
Best Practices in Writing Instruction by Radhames Warner and Marcia Rawlings shined light on summarizing which is a common writing strategy. This strategy involves taking main /key points from the text and putting them in a more simpler form.
Teaching Informational and nonfiction writing to primary students by Robvecia Hazel, Leonest Edinborough and Tatyana Browne spoke about the steps for informational writing. These steps include exploring, gathering info, organizing and focusing.
Trends in Teaching Writing presentation by Tamia Martin & Shaniqua Belle taught me about the writer's workshop. It showed how writers workshops help to build fluency in writing through repeated exposure to the process of writing.
Overall, each presentation was inofrmative and I was able to learn multiple writing strategies and activities.
Each piece was very insightful and better instructed me to help promote writing in the class room by using these new found practices.
ReplyDeleteShaniqua and Tamia's piece was greatly appreciated as i was able to behold the newly found concept of writing conferences which would be a great practice in writing instruction.
Robvicia, Leonest and Tatyana's piece on informational writing helped show me the process by which students can best learn to write while moving away from fiction.
Shanice and Tazurie's shared a new strategy known as the gallery walk which would better help students in engagement for writing instruction.
Treasure and Azuree's well detailed presentation opened up a whole new world to writing and instructing on writing through technology. The use of blogs for example was a great way to extend and document students writing range using a timely and readily available platform.
The presentation on the essentials of teaching writing by Abigail and Corrie was a much appreciated addition as it opens up to the importance writing instruction has in the classroom and how it can be better expounded upon by activities such as write alouds. The write aloud will not only serve as stimulation, but also a greater means of instruction for children as a sort of discovery learning.
Last but not least, the presentation from Marcia and I was thought to be well put together and expressing the general best practices in writing. The one which stood out the most would be setting product goals which much like in any other subject is a necessity in order to properly achieve affective instruction, and does this by expounding on S.M.A.R.T aspects.
I truly enjoyed the previous sessions as they were very informative and engaging. It is indeed a true statement that states, students retain more information when they are engaged in their own learning. I have learnt quite a lot while researching to prepare and present our group's presentation on "Using Writing to Promote Critical Engagement and Participation" however, all other presentations brought much incite that I can use to promote writing in my classroom.
DeleteOur first presentation by Shaniqua and Tamia's on Trends in Teaching Writing
Scaffolding Writing was quite interesting. As a primary school teacher I will surely incorporate the writing workshop in my lessons. Writing workshops are student-centered frameworks for teaching writing that is based on the idea that students learn to write best when they write frequently, for extended periods of time, on topics of their own choosing. This can be done through continuous, repeated exposure to the process of writing. Students would need to take ownership of their own writing with guidance from an experienced writer/ the teacher.
The presentation on "Teaching Informational and Nonfiction Writing to primary students" by Robvecia, Leonest and Tatyana. They expressed the importance of scaffolding students' composition/writing. Additionally they explained the eight steps of informational writing that I find very important when engaging students in writing. Students should explore, gather, organize, focus, select, order, draft, revise.
Treasure and Azuree's presentation on "Integrating Technology into Writing" was quite interesting. Technology helps students to become creative with their writing and it also helps teachers to be more creative with their teaching. Technology brings a different feeling to the classroom and can be used to engage students in using different tools to write including blogs and also the digital writers notebook that we are currently engaged in using.
The presentation on The Essentials of Teaching Writing by Abigail and Corrie was also very informative. I found the model of explicit instruction to be very useful. I would definitely use this model to help my students become competent independent writers. One of the important points I noted and will implement from this presentation is that
as a teacher i should give students time to write "to learn the skills and strategies necessary to become effective writers, as well as time to practice what they learn. Time for writing practice can help students gain confidence in their writing abilities."
The final presentation by Marcia and Radhames on "Best Practices in Writing Instruction" One of the key point that I intent to mimic is to Set Product Goals for my students as it is the best way to them down the intended path of instruction. Additionally, another important point was Process Writing. This will help students to gradually improve their writing skills as they engage in writing tasks or meaningful activities in small
step by step proportions.