Welcome
to 2023 Everyone!
It
has been a total rollercoaster of life since I last published something here.
As a writer and a teacher, I realize that I can improve my craft in both fields
by writing something every day. I thought about doing this just on my laptop or
even handwriting it, but why should I hide it when I can share it with the
world. That gave me a good reason to fire this blog back up!
I
really can't say what you will find here or if anyone will even visit. It
really doesn't matter. If my random writings only improve the skills I already
have, develop some new ones, and provide me a creative outlet, so be it. The
one goal that I have is to write 300 words per day.
I
recently read in a blog post at AWAI about looking back on all your
accomplishments, skills learned, and challenges successfully completed. This
was as an application across your entire life. I feel that is a very good
starting point for this year for me. The post used it as a technique to get
over the feeling and voices that say you are not very good at something. This activity
ties in really well with the effort I am making with my students to develop a
growth mindset.
A
resource I have used for teaching this in class is the Big Ideas section of the
ClassDojo website. The little animated videos are great for engaging the
students and having a structured discussion about the concept. I think a good
challenge would be tying the two together on a level my students can accomplish
as a New Year’s exercise.
Feel
free to share any ideas you may have that would help me structure this for a
bunch of 9 year olds. My students are great creative writers. I just need to flip
that strength into writing something autobiographical.
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