Megan's Reflection
Megan Gilbert- Reflection, Graves 4 & 5
Chapter four talks about Mr. Bang’s classroom and how he manages it to positively effect his students’ writings. I admired how he saw something that encouraged his own writing and applied it to his own classroom. That showed that he relates to his students not only as their teacher, but also as a fellow writer. It was not an easy process, but he struggled through because he knew that his students would benefit from the process. I like the process that was introduced to this classroom because it taught the students how to help and support each other in their writing. It also allowed the teacher to be able to talk with each student about his or her writing and get to know a little bit more about them personally.
Chapter five is about sharing the writing process, as writers, with our class. It highly stresses modeling writing in front of the class. It is stated that students are anxious about writing and teachers maintain this friction by not writing themselves. Children think that adults can magically create novels without breaking a sweat. Our students need to know that there is a process to writing that everyone, young and old, go through. The rest of the chapter goes through the steps of writing and a few good ways teachers can positively and clearly model writing. This made me think of the class we had when Greg brainstormed out loud in front of us. It was interesting to hear what was going through his mind as he went through this process, and I also think it would be beneficial to our students to see us go through the process as well.
Chapter four talks about Mr. Bang’s classroom and how he manages it to positively effect his students’ writings. I admired how he saw something that encouraged his own writing and applied it to his own classroom. That showed that he relates to his students not only as their teacher, but also as a fellow writer. It was not an easy process, but he struggled through because he knew that his students would benefit from the process. I like the process that was introduced to this classroom because it taught the students how to help and support each other in their writing. It also allowed the teacher to be able to talk with each student about his or her writing and get to know a little bit more about them personally.
Chapter five is about sharing the writing process, as writers, with our class. It highly stresses modeling writing in front of the class. It is stated that students are anxious about writing and teachers maintain this friction by not writing themselves. Children think that adults can magically create novels without breaking a sweat. Our students need to know that there is a process to writing that everyone, young and old, go through. The rest of the chapter goes through the steps of writing and a few good ways teachers can positively and clearly model writing. This made me think of the class we had when Greg brainstormed out loud in front of us. It was interesting to hear what was going through his mind as he went through this process, and I also think it would be beneficial to our students to see us go through the process as well.
posted by Megan | 8:01 PM
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You've got it Megan. Greg
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