Author Archives: rhiannondisilvio

Dans la vie, nous apprenons faire bien par les autres, donc que nous pouvons recevoir bon karma en retourner. Nous partageons avec les autres, nous aidons les autres et nous faisons bien par les autres. Cependant, il y a des personnes qui n’est pas d’accord avec cette idée. Par exemple, nos parents nous apprennent l’idéeContinue reading “Quelle est le prix d’une bonne action?”

Over the course of the past few months, I have found that many of the questions I had about teaching writing have been answered. Although I have learned and discussed various methods about how to teach writing effectively and all the aspects that go with it, I am still curious about a few things. TheContinue reading “Questions I Have For Writing Teachers”

Writing is a powerful tool that as teachers, both future and present, we must learn to encourage. The skill of writing goes unacknowledged and unappreciated as a tool that we can use in all aspects of our lives. As an aspiring English teacher, I hope to demonstrate to all my students how writing is aContinue reading “My Philosophy of Teaching Writing”

Personally, I have always believed and have now more than ever realized the importance of making a student feel like a real writer. There are five points in particular that I plan to use with my students in the future, and I chose them because I feel that since they have helped me feel betterContinue reading “How to help students feel like, think like, and talk like real writers”

As an aspiring English Teacher, I was extremely interested in Jim Burke’s many methods of teaching within the first three chapters of his book, The 6 Academic Writing Assignments: Designing the User’s Journey. I felt that these specific examples were beneficial to both the students, and the teacher. Burke calls them Writing To Learn (WTL)Continue reading “Significant Takeaways from Jim Burke’s “The 6 Academic Writing Assignments””

When I hopefully become a teacher, I hope to teach Authentic Writing to my students in an effective way, and to the best of my abilities. This being said, I am still just a student and do not know exactly how to do so. I only have a vague and general knowledge of the subjectContinue reading “What I Want to Remember about Authentic Writing Instruction”

Before taking this course, I felt that I generally knew what teaching consisted of and felt that I would know what I was doing in the classroom; I was not worried about it. But, once this course began I learned that there is a lot more to teaching than just standing in front of aContinue reading “Specific Ideas that have Impacted My Thinking”

As we are preparing ourselves to become future writing teachers, or become better writing teachers, we must learn how to make them not only great writers, but effective ones. This is a complicated task for of a number of different reasons. The first being that we do not know what career path our students willContinue reading “Writing in the Work World”

how these gaps relate or do not relate to your own personal experience: One of the gaps referred to in the article discussed the “Template Gap” which personally resonated with me more than the other gaps listed. This is because just about everyone who has ever had to write a paper on their own hasContinue reading “Bridging the Writing Gap Response”

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.