Final Reflection - Mar. 16

How do you believe different kinds of writing will inform your teaching in your content areas?
           First, I would like to say that I love writing. Teaching is and always has been my first career choice, but writing professionally has always been a close second. I hope to share that passion for writing with my students, no matter which course I am teaching.

           I hope that I am able to inspire them to grow their abilities and improve their writing without making it feel like I am constantly assigning 'boring' writing tasks. I feel there is a fine line there and I hope I am able to tread it without falling into the rut of redundancy. I would like to be engaging and inspiring. I would like to teach my students to express themselves and to explore new ideas. I would like to explore new tasks, challenge my students to make discoveries and to record everything. I especially like a lesson I learned in English last semester about making journals and having students record in them each class. While I am not always a fan of doing reflections, I think they have their time and their place, and there can be merit to them when done correctly.
            As mentioned earlier in this blog, I like the lesson put on by Mike Ward that discussed how to structure your week so that students are doing their own research and following their own interests. There are all kinds of different styles of writing we can do as a class to grow our skills and our abilities. We can write essays (I know, boring). We can create journals. We can make blogs and learn to integrate technology. We can write reflections. We can write book, journal, or article reviews. We can write research reports (or really all kinds of reports). We can write creative fiction pieces, or historical non-fiction. We can write poetry or stories. We can engage in explorations and self-analysis.

Above all else, I would like to teach my students to follow their dreams.