Post date: Sep 19, 2017 5:27:41 PM
Teaching writing is hard work. Do it anyway. Value process over product. Hold tight but let them go. Zone of proximal development. Hone the art of specific, timely, actionable feedback.
P.L. Thomas from radical eyes for equity goes over some things he learned from reading his class's essay 1 and just why he often decides to give less structure on the front end and more pattern finding before the revision.
This is specifically for my ELA pre-service teachers after their fabulous drop the mic presentations.
https://radicalscholarship.wordpress.com/2017/09/18/seeing-the-essay-again-for-the-first-time/