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Restaurant Skit written in Spanish

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To prepare for the regents I gave my kids a practice enduring issues essay. They were able to choose any issue they want.

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I did not teach writing this year.
In the future, I would like to teach students by modeling.

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As a Spanish teacher I've assigned writing exercises where I've asked students to create dialogues, short skits, interviews, picture book stories and letters.

I sort of regret not assigning any essays in my classroom. I thought by doing so I would be setting them up to fail or cause them frustration because I didn't think they knew enough Spanish to best express themselves. Looking back at it now I think I should have pushed them in an ungraded assignment

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This year I was a sub-teacher, so I wasn't focused on writing that often. I would follow the lesson plan the teacher left for the student. In my school, ELA teachers focus more on reading than writing.
For next year, I hope to implement more writing lessons and strategies to help students become better writers.

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I taught a couple of different formats of essay writing this year, ranging from research paper to historiographical essay. It was a lot to give feedback efficiently.

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Writing in most of my classes was done mainly for the purpose of keeping with the curriculum. Once we felt confident in their ability to write SPA paragraphs, we moved on to argumentative essays. I like the idea of giving kids a prompt and then having them write for the whole period. I'd like to incorporate something like that into my classes next year.

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I have not thought to much into writing for next year. This year almost all writing assignments were just meant to prepare my kids for the regents.

For next year I would like to introduce more writing for my students. I dont want to bury them in assignments. The question im on is how can I get my kids to provide me with the best quality work.

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This year, I have been drilling students, setting a prompt for students at the start of a class, something I plan for every class for a combination of lesson timing concerns as well as giving my students the opportunity to grow and develop as writers. I have also been setting them writing assignments that are not graded but give me an opportunity to evaluate their writing and give them feedback.

More than anything, I feel my program doesn't serve my students in terms of giving them the opportunity to develop as writers given that it's so geared toward test scores, there is little room to gauge a student's growth as a writer, given that it is such a personal and artistic skill.