This past week Stacey has posted several great ideas about ways she is going to get her students excited about writing. If you’ve not seen them, then check out her posts from this week — you’ll see meeting area supply boxes, gift wrapping, and writer’s notebook enhancements.
Next week I’m leading a four day training for teachers new to Writing Workshop philosophy, yet wanting to implement it in their classrooms. This is one of my very favorite parts of my job. I love (and I mean LOVE) teaching the beginning training. I’ve designed the workshop to be 50% learning the “dirty little secrets” of launching writing workshop and 50 % becoming a writer oneself.
I’m going to put into practice Stacey’s ideas next week so teachers can experience the excitement that comes with getting new writing supplies, being given a gift, and poetry. I suggest you do the same. As you’re putting together these inspirational gifts for your students, make one for yourself too. Experience the joy that comes from being a writer.
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Love these ideas. I bought a bunch of pretty notebooks last spring for my own writer’s journals and still haven’t put anything in them. I meant to paste finished pieces into them as collections but everything is still in my drafting notebook. I better get busy making myself a gift!
Yay for celebrating the coming year of writing and writers!
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Can you come and teach me how to do it, please? I’m doing all that — planning to slowly start implementing Writer’s Workshop, supporting my student writers, and taking myself seriously as a writer. It’s tough stuff.
I adapted Stacey’s idea for myself and am pleased with it. I got a cute little tub and filled it with the WW supplies she suggested. We’ll take it to the rug when we meet and one of my classroom jobs will be making sure it stays stocked. I’m excited!
Next step, working on the poem to go in their workbooks and how to implement that.
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Thanks for the props Ruth. Additionally, thanks for summing all of my ideas up into one post. Quite frankly, your post feels like a neatly-wrapped package! THANKS!
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I am finishing a class teaching teachers about writing. I DID take Stacey’s ideas. I just finished wrapping the last writer’s notebook. I included poems in them. Two from her, as well as the text of Taylor Mali’s What Teachers Make and Miracle Workers. Thanks for the great ideas! I hope they like them!!
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