Yes, notice I said "with"?
Um-hmmm.
I don't mean you have to be writing at the same time. Although if you are a home-school mom and you are working one-on-one with your student, I think it would be a great idea for you to write at the same time as your student.
However --
I also operate in the real world, and I know that most times we'd all LOVE to have the luxury of sitting down and writing, but we just can't. More on that another time.
Anyway --
Writing with your young writers simply means that you don't consider yourself the high and mighty know it all teacher.
Please, please -- if you get anything out of this blog, it's this: we're all IN-PROCESS! None of us is perfect, and none of us should act like it! If your students see a "perfect" teacher who wants nothing but perfection in return from her/his students, you'll get a big fat ZERO from them. At least in writing.
As a teacher, we have to walk beside our students and feel their pain. We have to be their guide. We have to show them how to think their way through their writing.
In the end, if you follow the ways I will lay out for you, you will be amazed at the rich creativity you will see in your students' writing. I guarantee this. I put my career behind this. It's almost formulaic, and yet so many have overlooked this way of teaching.
Pardon my passion.
But stay tuned.
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