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The Writing Revolution - Peg Tyre - The Atlantic - 1 views

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  • The school’s success suggests that perhaps certain instructional fundamentals—fundamentals that schools have devalued or forgotten—need to be rediscovered, updated, and reintroduced. And if that can be done correctly, traditional instruction delivered by the teachers already in classrooms may turn out to be the most powerful lever we have for improving school performance after all.
    • Suzanne Tighe
      Suzanne Tighe on 29 Sep 12
       
      It is all about balance.  Some students need more help with understanding how to write.  Others need less.  I would not want writing to be reduced to a formula but we need to have ways to support student in their writing journey.  It is hard to write well if you believe you cannot write because you lack success.  The focus needs to be on what students need in the format that they need.
Suzanne Tighe

The Writing Revolution - Peg Tyre - The Atlantic - 4 views

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  • The harder they looked, the teachers began to realize, the harder it was to determine whether the students were smart or not—the tools they had to express their thoughts were so limited that such a judgment was nearly impossible.
    • Suzanne Tighe
      Suzanne Tighe on 29 Sep 12
       
      Sometimes its not whether a child is "smart" or not, but if they have the ability to express their thinking (verbally or written)
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  • don’t learn how to teach writing
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