Photo

Looking at this picture i noticed that brick because that is the kind of brick i would like to use for when i build a house. Also i noticed the lady laying on the ground in the sand all by his self. She looks like she is homeless and doesnt have anywhere to be but just to be on the beach sleeping. The blue water and the waves remindes me of spring break at Port Aransas and how pretty it is at the beach but the seawall is very pretty.

ANYTHING TO WRITE ABOUT...

Right now I am soooo tired becasue we had workout this morning and it was hard and than I went and set in study hall for 3 hrs but I did get my homework done. Now I am in class and I am super tired. I am super exicted about traveling to arkansas saturday for our golf tournament. This will be my first golf tournament out of texas. But this trip will be exciting because we get to fly and hopefully play good I am very nervous about this tournament because I have to walk 36 holes the first day and 18 the second day. I have never walked that many holes ever and I have walked alot but not that many in one day. Than I had to make my schedule with my athletic advisor and I am not going to have a break until I graduate. :((( But I hope that time comes super fast and make it be worth it. Monday I found out that I am going to have a neice and I am soooo exicted about going shopping for her. She will be here on Aug. 20... My nephew is going to be a big brother and is going to be the best at it... Love them all...... :))))

One-on-one teaching

While working today with all the different roles that the kids will come up to you and talk to you about your paper. When a kid comes up to me crying will be very hard but i will try to work with them to look over the paper. If you have a kid that just doesnt care about their grade that they got than you need to get them somehow to want to care. You could try to work with a class about if they all do good on their papers than we can have a party with pizza and soda. If you have a begger that comes to you than you will have to tell them all i can do is look over it and try to help you out the best way i can. When the kid comes up to you and tells you that your grading is not good and that he/she has had someone look over it than i know that i will be mad because i knwo that i can grade the way i want to. Having one-on-one conferencing with the student with their writing is great becasue it is hard to work with everyone in the class about there papers. One-on-one is good to be able to help the student out if they are having a a trouble to word a sentence than it is good to get them started.

Traditionalist/construcivist

Constructivist
Student input
Teacher is relaxed
Circles, Clusters
Facilitator teacher
Students needs Meaningful/life
Skills- Meaningful
engagedment
kidwatchers
facilitators
learner centered
environment is designed to promote literacy development(reading and writing literacy)
learning stations
writing workshop
desk in cluster or circle.....
students are risk takers
open-ended questions
creativity
sitting one-on-one
conferencing with student
flexibility
hands on(active learning)
students create their own enviroment

Traditionalist
Stays w/currlculium
all knowing teacher
test based eval.
teacher speaks-passive model
students prompt
row of desks
guidelines
rules
routine
Worksheets alot
Boring
Structured-
discreet skills
behaviorist model
IRE-INQUIRY,RESPOND,EVALUATE
spelling test all the time
rote memorization
classic literature
blooms taxonomy based ( create,evaluate,analyze,apply,understand,knowledge)
prescribed curriculum
strict
focus on what the child doesnt know
studnets have to stay quite

Reading for strickland& strickland and Ray

How to study with the writing workshop

UNITS OF WRITING

- What are my strengths as a teacher of writing

-What have my students studied before in writing

-What are my students interested in? What do they want to know as writers?

-What are my colleagues studying in their writing workshops?

-What resources do i have?

-For what kind of writing will my students be held accountable?

Several of the units of study are the same at both the upper grades and lower grades. Its good to get the first graders to fifth graders to be able to read text like writers.

Daily Focus lessons should be used all the time because it can open them with more ideas with writing. A good focus lesson is very clear with the objective.

Part of the lesson

- a quote of advice

- an example from a published

- a piece of student writing

- a piece of the teacher's writing

- a story or a metaphore

- a report on a conference

- some public writing

How to get students involved in the lesson

TIME

A good way to get students involved is to have them talk together with their classmates about their outside work. Time is such a big factor in the workshop because you have to get everything done that matters.

According to strickland and strickland " conferring can also be so much fun, so satisfying".

Conferences need to always be kept short.

Four Parts of a writing conference

Research

Decide

Teach

Make a Record

The driving requirements of a professional writers life is to publish or perish...

Publishing is your writing is accepted, finished and available to the public

Reading and Literature

Having a interview you can get great information out of the student. You can get them to fill out a survey or have a writing conference. Reading logs is where the student writes down the titles, authors and perhaps genres of books that they have read... Teaching reading with connecting with literature is where if the student reads and connects it will be alot easier for them to understand it. A good way to get the students experiencing success with reading is using the jigsaw's. Literature Circles QUESTIONER, SUMMARIZER,CONNECTOR,LITERARY LUMINARY,ILLUSTRATOR, RESEARCHER these teach the students to have roles and responsibility's.