Here are some of my favorite lines from your reflections and other responses this Winter: “I would want my future students to have the same opportunity to share their writing with their classmates, family and friends, and to receive encouraging, positive feedback from everyone, including the teacher, so that they will feel encouraged to keep …
Y’all did a great job working through your peer’s assignments and providing thoughtful encouragement and feedback to the teacher; thank you! As many of you mentioned, creating assignments and activities is so challenging! One of the things I often do is try out my own assignments. I learn a lot when I try to actually …
Hi everyone, You’ve made some really cool prompts and activities for your peers. Love the book selections as your mentor texts…such a great range of books and ideas. You can see where you’ve incorporated ideas from About the Authors too. Well done. For today: It’s now time to write the activity your partner designed for you by …
Hi nice people, Today is the day where you share an activity for your partner to try out. My favorite part of teaching (besides students, of course) is course design: I just love pouring over ideas and books, thinking about what we might do together in class, and knowing that I’ll learn from students. I’m …
Hello everyone, Friendly reminders for today: Response to Chapters 6 & 7 and another response based on your impressions of the Common Core standards due tonight. Prompts on Make Cycle 4 page. If you haven’t done so already, please take a moment to fill out the Student Evaluation of Teaching for our course. You should have …
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