Learning about peers and Writing to Learn

I chose to read the blogs of the beautiful Sarah Dosda and the marvelous Lacey Garrett. I learned that both of these amazing, Godly women are wonderful mothers and will be spectacular teachers very soon! I wanted to read about these women because I look up to them. They juggle the MANY stresses of school with maintaining their duties as wives and mothers at home. They seem like really strong women and I hope that I can take some of the things I have learned from them and apply them to my life now and in the future.

I surprisingly enjoyed reading the “Writing to Learn” article. I have never been a student who enjoys writing, and I think it is because I have rarely ever been instructed to just write what I wanted to write in school. I liked the ideas of quick writes the most out of all of the activities the article mentioned. It is great to have students quickly write their ideas or feelings about an assignment or class discussion immediately after the activity is over. This will help students to digest all that they learned as well as helping them to remember what they learned. I wish that I would have been asked to write down my thoughts and opinions more in all the years I have attended school. I feel that I would have different views on writing now. I will remember this article when I become a teacher and will implement writing into all of the subjects that I teach.