Better-late-than-never reflection on my first day with #OxbowWritingProject with @write2memags and amazing teachers. I am absolutely LOVING the teaching demonstrations - many cool ideas that I would like to try in my own classroom and pass along to my teacher candidates. 1/
First up was a great reminder that there are multiple types of #listening that are context-dependent: conversational, reflective, and rhetorical. Elementary students are explicitly taught about listening, while secondary students typically are not (but prob should be!). 2/
Exercise to try: Perspective-taking in writing. This could be prompted by looking at a historical photo and taking the perspective of a person in the photo, which is what we practiced. I may use this as inspiration for some of my own historical fiction writing this week. 3/
Next up was a lesson about learning transfer with another important reminder that for learning to transfer, students must find the content/concepts meaningful. One way to achieve that is by giving students choice / freedom in responses. 4/
Exercise to try: To engage students in writing for multiple audiences, have them compose a message about the same topic for three different audiences: 1. A text to a friend. 2. A social media post to a wider audience. 3. Share with the class. 5/
Hopefully coming soon: A day two reflection! 6/
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