Thursday, March 8, 2018

Assignment Nine: Final Course Reflection

Assignment Nine: Final Course Reflection

Take a look at the last section in Regie's text, Writing Essentials, it's chock full of great resources!!!


Teaching in Action: Lesson Essentials 5 Day Lesson Plans & Appendices

• Secrets of Second Graders• Heart Poems• Procedural writing• Hero writing• Persuasive writing• Appendix survey 


Be sure to look through this section. If you haven’t already done so, look at Appendix A (page A-2.) Re-examine your beliefs about writing by re-reading the statements about the writing process and marking true or false in your book. Did you change any of your previous answers? Would you consider bringing this page to your team or even to your entire school to jump-start discussions about writing? Take some time to look through the appendices. There are several useful examples included. One we’d like to point out to you is Appendix L- The Genre Characteristics Excerpt on page A-13. Look to the Writing Essentials companion website at www.heinemann.com/writingessentials for the entire chart as well as directions to assist you playing the DVD.

ASSIGNMENT NINE: Final Course Reflection - Critically examine your current literacy program and develop realistic goals to improve your instruction. Also reflect on the balance between your home and school life. If our students are to become happy, literate people, they need happy, balanced teachers. BRIEFLY, share several of your goals with the class by posting them to the blog for this final assignment.

Thanks for taking our course!!!! 

2 comments:

  1. This has been a wonderful class and have learned a lot from Writing Essentials by Regie Routman. This class has really made me reflect on my teaching of writing and what I can do to make improvements. I have been convinced to make many changes since reading this book and the completion of this course. Some of my classroom writing goals are:
    1. Scheduling writing every day.
    2. Give my students a sense of who their audience is when writing.
    3. Model writing in front of my students daily and think aloud during the process.
    4. Provide more choices in writing topics.
    5. Create child friendly rubrics for my grade levels.
    6. Conference with my students.
    7. Celebrate and publish writing.

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  2. I am so glad you enjoyed the text and class! (This truly means so much to us!!!) :D

    There are excellent goals to implement! It's been a pleasure having you in class this term! I'll email you your grade. Have a wonderful rest of the year!

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