Hacking The Writing Process: Let's Make Writing
Angela Stockman on Make Writing.
My goal is to help you remedy the problems that many young writers face when they confront empty screens and pages. These writers experience frustration and even defeat as they strain against contrived procedures with intangible tools.
Over time, these...
Practice Empathy and Develop a Curriculum Just Right for Your Writers
Angela Stockman on emergent writing curriculum.
Standardized programs and curriculum maps initially appear to have several great advantages. First they provide common, coherent, and comfortably linear pathways through learning experiences. They also emphasize outcomes, which helps...
8 Hacks to Inspire Reluctant Writers
Reluctant writers are students who may harbor a negative attitude toward writing, lack confidence in their abilities, or find the writing process overwhelming. As educators, it is crucial to recognize the challenges these students face and implement strategies to help them overcome their writing...
Transforming Your Classroom's Writing Workshop into a Maker Space: 8 Creative Ideas
Writing workshops provide valuable opportunities for students to develop their writing skills and express their creativity. However, a simple writing workshop is limiting to students who need more tools for their creativity to thrive. By incorporating elements of a maker space into the writing...
Focus on Habits to Curb Extra Credit Requests
By Elizabeth Jorgensen
At the end of the school year, many of my colleagues are inundated with late work and appeals for extra credit. But because my students have learned to value the process over grades, I have no late work to assess and no requests for extra credit.
Even with summer...
Engage the Maker in Your Midst: 4 Ways Building Breeds Better Writers
My discovery about making continues to resonate with me, but in recent years, I’ve learned that making isn’t merely an intervention for kids who dislike writing. It’s a powerful means for elevating every writer’s process and work.
In fact, we notice...
Changing the Way You Offer Writing Workshops
Author and writing coach Angela Stockman on redesigning writing workshops
I remember my first introduction to writing workshop. I was a junior in college, completing my final seminar before student teaching, and the professor who I admired most throughout my undergraduate career assigned the book...
