I love this line: “As I try to do with all assignments, I did the writing along with them.” This is a teacher who knows what her task is as an English educator and honors her students by walking the talk. If we expect our students to learn to write, take time to write, be willing to write — WE must write. We must write so they see our thinking, our struggle, our process. Because it’s in the process that all the learning happens. Thanks for sharing a slice of your pedagogy with us Mrs. Kelley.
The theme for this year’s PTSA Reflections competition is “The World Would Be A Better Place If…,” and I have assigned my students to write an original work for a ReadAround in class tomorrow. As I try to do with all assignments, I did the writing along with them. Below is my response to the prompt.
If “ifs” and “buts” were candy and nuts, oh what a Christmas it’d be.
My brother and I always said that when we were growing up, and it’s been running through my mind since we began the Reflections writing. I think about the truth behind that little chant, and I have to shake my head that we had no idea what truth we were actually speaking in our naïve youth. Quite honestly, at the time we liked being able to say the word “buts” without getting in trouble, and we also liked to taunt…
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