How can we make writing pedagogy more free? How can we make conscious in students their thoughts and desires so that they can create their own writing life?
Recording Students’ Book Groups: An Alternative to More Testing
Audio files of students’ discussions are artifacts of evidence, evidence of thinking and making meaning that is difficult to capture in a written assignment or test.
Assessment in the No-Grades Writing Workshop: What did you write? What did you learn?
Write about what we’ve done in writing class since midterm and what you learned. This is the first sentence of the “final exam” in our seventh grade writing workshop this quarter. This school year, as I discussed in last week’s post about assessment in the reading …