tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6529647435872563341.post931428943530550496..comments2023-07-05T06:55:53.577-04:00Comments on College Ready Writing: Peer-Driven Learning: I'll Need to Drive a Little MoreLee Skallerup Bessette, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12243750156552824701noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6529647435872563341.post-15010527761627591572011-12-18T09:21:57.724-05:002011-12-18T09:21:57.724-05:00I am really interested in your method. I teach wr...I am really interested in your method. I teach writing at a community college to ESL students. I model how to write a well written piece and use an anchor passage, too. Then I tell them to practice using the skills on their own by writing an essay. Would you say that is what Dan Pink recommends (Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose)? <br />I think for this semester, I am going to give them a schedule of essays due. Every week they must write one and hand it to me to see if they are improving. I also need to see where the need is. I don't always get it. What do you think?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18162938444781975347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6529647435872563341.post-20670962242889061122011-10-21T21:44:55.026-04:002011-10-21T21:44:55.026-04:00I have been thinking about and planning my learnin...I have been thinking about and planning my learning-centered, largely student-autonomy hybrid Spring FYC class. I was thinking that I would begin the course with the required book (Stephen King's On Writing) and the writing assignments that I had created around it; then, at midterm, I would hand the class blog over to them and let them go. My thinking was that the required reading and writing would give them a foundation upon which to build their part of the class. But you may be right that we need to hook them with the autonomy and choice that they have been denied for so long in order for them to accept and value and maybe be more confident in their ability to do the work that we want them to do. Wow, I have a lot more thinking to do before I commit this class to paper--and just when I thought I had it figured out ;)Tanya T. Sasserhttp://eh101.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com