What is within your grasp right now? What do you feel is totally do-able?
o Talking less as I teach
o More writing daily writing
o Generating writing form heart to head & helping kids do this
o Sharing our own writing with students
o Student generated prompts
o Put all my writing together in a binder
o Do 7-min. writes on my own–– daily practice
o Put a link on the blog to prompts
o Revise how I do journals in my class: 3 kinds: prompt, weekend, writer’s notebook
o Pull lines out of my own text and start there
o Carry a little, teeny-tiny notebook
o Rethink how I give feedback and how kids give each other feedback
o Get kids to generate criteria for poetry
o Keep a professional notebook
o Collect golden lines from readaround and use as prompts
o Sleep!
o Keep meditating on my hopes for my classroom and the reasons I want to teach
o Not collecting my students’ first drafts and getting them in writing groups
o Have writing groups invite the teacher to join as needed
o Blog about how writing groups are working in my classroom
In what areas do you feel on the “frontier”--you are breaking new ground and it is within reach, if you stretch a bit?
o Talking less than that
o Trying to keep motivated with my own writing; stay in touch with my writing group via email
o Publication in some format in all my classes
o Balancing creativity and structure
o Looking at voice
o Sneak in toward Portfolio Pieces
o Teacher exchange-- new and experienced teachers
o Using more primary sources
o Publication: poetry slams, gallery walks
o Publishing a booklet of poetry for waiting rooms, etc.
o Blogging
o Blogging with another teacher or class
o Make time to read more
What ideas and achievements are on the horizon for you--not reachable yet, but within your vision?
o Use writing to learn
o Make time for digital publication
o Make time for our own writing groups
o Establish after school writing groups
o Teach in silence
o Change students’ perspectives on revision
o Get kids to be able to write not just for now but from a sense of being rooted in the past and the future; find the context and connect to their own knowledge
o Make “I Am” presentations more dynamic
o Work with colleagues to share teaching demonstrations
o Bring some of NWP model to faculty meetings
2 comments:
Keep posting, all. Raise issues you want to bat around. I'm going to start a "prompt" thread. ADD TO IT!!
j.
Keep posting, all. Raise issues you want to bat around. I'm going to start a "prompt" thread. ADD TO IT!!
j.
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