It's kind of official! I am heading back to the classroom next year. Needed to say "Goodbye" to my previous workplace (a teacher training center) because the work became about politics and keeping superintendents happy--not about what's good for teachers.
So...I am crazily working on writer's notebook pages this summer--going to make my writer's workshop all about what begins in the writer's notebook next year.
Here is a fun page I plan to introduce early on to my students; I especially like how the page is not only teaching unqiue ideas, but it's focused on teaching students what a noun phrase is! We don't teach enough grammar in places other than worksheets and daily oral language drills. That's the dogma I head back to my students with.
Here is the complete lesson online that sets students up to create this notebook page in their own notebooks.
More to come...all summer long!
--Corbett
July 6, 2011 at 10:20 AM
Lucky kids! I did the same thing. I was out of the classroom for 10 years working as a consultant in a educational service center. My work became just as you described. I am sure glad that I returned to the classroom. I have brought into it a new perspective, renewed focused energy, and I am loving it. I LOVE your blog and can't wait to continue following your notebook and writers workshop this year.