I found Elbow's article "Using writing in disciplinary, subject-matter courses" to be very valuable for any teacher, not just writing or English teachers, because I believe writing really is an important part of any education, in any field, and the only way to expose students and get them to write freely and fluently is through practice and exposure. Also, he suggests many different strategies that help make this easier on both the teachers and the students, especially to motivate teachers to adopt his suggestions.
In my case, I have incorporated more formal aspects of writing, such as research or short oral reports, but the problem with this is that parents usually help the students at home, so the result is not entirely the student's. I have not used informal writing as much, and I now plan to do so at least once a week to help my students in their learning process and get to know their own style or needs better.
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I believe that the assignments should be given in the class room so that they can trully learn, because many times the parents are the ones that do their childrens assignments....I speak from experience!!!
ReplyDeleteWriting should be a matter of every teacher not only the language teacher.
ReplyDeleteThat's true parents do kids jobs and the studnets do not learn. I like to do things in class because I coud see what they do.