Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Group work
All through the essay, I thought the students had come to the writing center and had been formed into groups. By the end of the reading I was wondering if tutors were brought into the classroom where the teacher had divided the class into writing groups of 5 and had assigned a tutor to each one. Allowing diverse students to be in the same group all semester instead of for a particular paper might work well in a classroom if each group had a tutor. Another observation was that what was being "worked on" had meaning at that moment and was not limited to just developing the writer but also developing the writing. I think a balance is needed.
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What they were working on had meaning at that moment, but I wonder if the fact that the writing was neither assigned nor subject to a grade allowed even attention focused on a specific piece of writing to be more obviously for the purpose of developing the writer.
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