Hundreds of teachers took the opportunity to attend a 4 day Writer's Workshop training hosted by Teacher's College faculty from Columbia University in NY. It was an inspirational week for all! Most leaving re energized and inspired to be the writing teacher that every writer deserves to have. One that is excited about the possibilities to teach and the possibilities for the learning that their students will do alongside their teacher and their peers.
It's been thrilling to pull up along side students who are in their second year of being in a Writer's Workshop and that they are using the language and strategies taught last year. Kids are beginning to focus more on telling their stories with words that brightly illustrating a picture in kindergarten. They are writers.... they see each other as authors... and they are beginning to see how what they love in the books they read can become part of their stories as well! Loving that both the teachers and students are drinking the "Lucy Juice" and wanting more!
It's been thrilling to pull up along side students who are in their second year of being in a Writer's Workshop and that they are using the language and strategies taught last year. Kids are beginning to focus more on telling their stories with words that brightly illustrating a picture in kindergarten. They are writers.... they see each other as authors... and they are beginning to see how what they love in the books they read can become part of their stories as well! Loving that both the teachers and students are drinking the "Lucy Juice" and wanting more!