![]() “I am an active listener when I’m working with my writing partner.” “I use the feedback my teacher and writing partner gave me.” I pose a question or a prompt, for example: My favorite quick reflection tool is to ask students to rate themselves on a sliding scale. ![]() “Right now I know how to… But what I really want to be able to do is…” My favorite reflective quick writes are the ones that look back and look forward. You might try getting students started with open-ended questions. In this section, from time to time, students are prompted to look back at examples of their writing or think back to moments during writing time. Many teachers create a separate section in students’ writing notebooks or folders for reflection and goal setting. SELF-REFLECTION QUESTIONS OR “QUICK WRITES” Here are five things we’ve tried recently: (It helps to know this is grounded in quite a lot of research on student expectations and self-assessment as well.) When students can articulate how they have changed, when they can name the strategies they’ve used, talk about how they have grown–then we help them make that growth replicable the next time they face a challenge. This work is grounded in the belief that self-reflection and goal setting will support student growth. ![]() “How do we teach students to self-reflect and self-assess? How do we help them be aware of what they are learning– all the things they are learning?” Along with the teachers I work with, we’ve been brainstorming. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been trying out tools, strategies, and new routines to try to support students in recognizing some of that “other stuff” that threads our units together. But it’s the other stuff (the goal setting, the conversational skills, the hard work) that threads it all together and gives it meaning and purpose. ![]() But there are also very important goals involving: work ethic, the ability to give and take feedback, setting goals, persevering, collaborating, conversational skills, and so much more.Įach lesson we teach in writing workshop is like a pearl on a string. We often think about the quality of the writing as the main goal of writing workshop. The pearls on their own are lovely, but threaded together they become something more. But it is the string of scenes, all tied together that gives the whole story meaning and purpose. Each moment or scene in the story is polished, lovely to read. Someone once told me (or maybe I read it somewhere) that the best stories are like pearls on a string. ![]()
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