Double Journal Entry 10

All teachers are responsible for including writing instruction in their classes because any good teacher is trying to help their students succeed. Studies have proven that reading and writing across the curriculum improve students performance across the board. Also to correctly interpret material from different classes like science, math, and social studies involves looking at the text in a different manner. For example to look at a historical document one must look for authenticity and bias skills not needed in reading a fiction story.

Here are four ways to support writing instruction for students:

#1Low stakes writing assignments- here students are just writing short assignments ex(write one paragraph comparing and contrasting a direct democracy and a representative democracy.

#2Provide multiple forms of feedback- this involves letting students evaluate each other or maybe class discussion of a students view on a topic they wrote about, anything that is not the standard teacher reading the paper and merely giving the student a grade.

#3Have teachers collaborate on their own techniques-here the teachers are sharing ideas to help the school reach the ultimate goal of student success.

#4Encourage teachers to look for effective techniques- Teachers like to research ways to become enhance professional development, so having teachers look for ways to improve can lead to them really enjoying implementing writing instruction in their class.