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My main takeaway was that we can not expect ELL to be able to get everything right away. We must break down the basics with them so they can keep improving. 

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My main takeaway was that we can not expect ELL to be able to get everything right away. We must break down the basics with them so they can keep improving. 

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I was thinking about how innovative teachers have to be and how you can't learn everything in classes, especially in the context of ELL. On top of that, I was thinking about how difficult it must be for the ELL students. For them, many are in a new place and are surrounded by people who don't speak their language and have to adapt as soon as possible. It sounds really stressful

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I feel abysmal about the state of teaching ELL in this country and how flawed it all feels

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Something that came up that I think is so important is the idea of making the implicit explicit. We can't assume kids know what we expect and what a paragraph is. We have to be clear and show. We have to help through the process and not throw things out, hope they stick, and respond when the student is done.

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One takeaway I had from today was that patience is needed when teaching multilingual students. This wasnt explicitly stated, but I noticed the importance of reflecting on what does and does not work for your students and how you can improve on them.

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My main takeaway from this week is that students should get multiple attempts to meet the expectations of a final grade based on quality/product. I think that students should be graded based on a progression that starts with checks for understanding and develops to a final draft over the course of a certain period of time. I want to grade primarily based on what I am looking for for the prompt, and an eventual all-encompassing grade from a final product (combined based on quality and effort).

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My main takeaway from this class today is that ELL teaching is really complex! Many different students need many different things and often come into school at different levels from their peers so it seems to pose the issue of how to grade? I think it's really cool how the students were separated into levels based on their skill-level in the ELL program!

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Allowing students to write about their life through personal narratives and other creative writing can help them express theirselves and understand more about the language. Writing in English doesn't have to be done in a formal way

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This week's articles about grading were interesting. The only way I've been graded is with the traditional method, but I believe I will incorporate some of these alternative grading methods.

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A large takeaway that I had was the importance of recognizing when something doesn't work for your students, and adapting that to give them the most beneficial education possible.

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Writing is a collaborative process and differentiation is needed in order to make sure all students are getting fair instruction. At the end of the day, the effort is something that must be highly valued in order to uplift the confidence and voices of your students.

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A takeaway I had was that meeting the students where they are is important.

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Something about the experience of writing. Trying to get kids to free write. Writing for others (white hegemony). Writing for self. One's own feelings towards their writing.

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Free writing can help a student express their interest and find holes in the wall if experiencing writer’s block. Who doesn’t love a little free writing.

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The conversation about AI intrigued me. Specifically the accusation of using AI to make an essay being an indefensible claim. How is a student supposed to prove that they actually did write something? Especially with AI where there is no trace left to accurately prove guilt. It is only based off of teacher suspicion which could become very dangerous. Also the idea of using AI to detect AI feels like a dangerous road to travel as it will only become both sides trying to out evolve the other.

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something I found interesting was about different people's ideas about recursive writing. I feel like when re-read and re-working while writing I am able to write more cohesively. However, the points brought up in by other people in class about this making people freeze up is also true. I think it's important to free write without doing this, and then edit (maybe) after each paragraph or page. So like a healthy mix of free and recursive writing.

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I won't like I can't remember much from last week, but something very specific I remember from last week is a mention in one of the readings about imitating other writers as assignments, I think it was? I thought about this and I don't know how I feel about it. I can see both sides.

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Allowing students to write in their own languages or vernacular should be commonplace. It can be hard enough to be creative, but when you are trying to do it in a language you are less comfortable with it can be near impossible.

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I think that free writes are good examples of making less stressful and easing students' anxieties when it comes to writing

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Writing for identity certainly has its place in any writing class. It can be so much more beneficial for a students own self-worth & development of identity.

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Students need to be given time to read and write in equal measure, without one the other ultimately suffers as well. By reading they are able to think about different perspectives and by writing they are able to express their own perspectives.

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How do we "approach teaching writing" if we're supposed to let students write how they know?

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Last week already feels like forever ago... Something that really stood out to me was the conversation we had about that form of writing that goes line by line or paragraph by paragraph where people reread what they already wrote and then build from there -- I can't remember what it was called for the life of me though

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Writing should come naturally from the student, and should be minimally tampered with or forced to conform to some dialectical standard.

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My main takeaway from last week is that forcing students to write in Standard American English prohibits their own learning and identity from flourishing.

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Student free writes can be a great outlet to both create relationships and help them grow their writing skills.

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My main takeaway from the readings and journal entries were being able to write freely matters in school and I plan to make sure my students know that in my classroom they can be who they want however they want