Joining the Teacher/Writer Community!
Introduction For this assignment, we were asked to immerse ourselves into the teacher/writer community by reading a number of articles and blog posts written by Language Arts teachers detailing their ideas and experiences in the classroom. I used the note-taking organizer to reflect on ideas and techniques that I may want to use in my future class. As well as brainstorming ways I can change or enhance such lessons to incorporate them into my class. Takeaway 1 I specifically enjoyed browsing the Writers Who Care webpage as I was able to subscribe to the page and skim through a lot of different articles. One in particular that I chose to write about is titled, Collaborations between Teachers and Therapy Dog Teams: Increasing Children’s Writing Skills and Inspiring Them for Life. Written by Barbara Vokatis and Lucinda Ormiston, they discuss the advantages of dog therapy in the classroom. At first, I had no idea how a dog in the classroom could help students improve their writing, but