Writer's Workshop
As a teacher it is my responsibility to translate instructional goals into learning experiences for my students through the design of instruction. It is my duty to organize the environment and manage the learning process. To demonstrate my ability to create coherent instruction to teach Fifth Grade Writing, I have included the following:
I feel it is important to create student centered, yet scaffolded, tools for the students that allow the students to become more active and responsible for their own learning; such as the Student Editing checklist and the Editor’s Checklist Form. The rubrics that I have created and borrowed allow me to determine the effectiveness of my teaching designs.
- Student Self-Editing Checklist that I created to be used before final writing project is turned in, which contains writing skills and writing style characteristics taught during unit
- Editor’s Checklist Form that I use during peer-editing.
- Rubric that I created to evaluate student’s performance of the writing process itself. I believe that we are teaching a process that needs to be evaluated along with the writing.
- PSSA writing scoring guidelines/rubrics that I use to grade writing projects in Writer’s Workshop.
- On-Demand Writing Prompt that is used at the end of the unit so students can practice a skill that will be tested as a part of the state school assessment.
- Invitation to parents/families for our Celebration, an Author's Tea where students share their writing, which is an extremely important part of the process.
I feel it is important to create student centered, yet scaffolded, tools for the students that allow the students to become more active and responsible for their own learning; such as the Student Editing checklist and the Editor’s Checklist Form. The rubrics that I have created and borrowed allow me to determine the effectiveness of my teaching designs.
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