Lately I have been reading several teacher resource books. Mostly to get jazzed up to get certified to teach next year. Believe me I need some intrinsic motivation so I started to read about teaching. In my reading I realized that I have my work cut out for me. I have been busy being mom and not keeping up with the professional me for too long. I have let some thing slip into an abyss in my brain waiting to be recalled. One of the skills in the abyss is writing.
I have blogged for a few years now. At first I did a couple of entries a week. It then turned into trying to blog at least once a week. Then maybe, just maybe once a month. I think I demand an audience. What I mean is we all write to be read. It is sad but true as the blogging fad faded with some of my friends so did my audience. As my audience faded so did my entries.
Some of this is not entirely a subject of interest because of my pending search for a job. I would love to see more writing at my girls school. As any parent would do I started to think about what we can do at home about this snag in their education. I decided that we would do a writers workshop this summer. I am a firm believer in killing two birds with one stone. This is why in my reading to catch up on teaching I started to read how to teach writing. Of course my biggest ah ha was not how to teach writing but that my writing is lacking. In order for kids and adults to become better writers they must WRITE! Shocking I know. In order to be better at something you must practice.
All that to say I am writing to practice writing. I can not sit around and not practice this skill any longer. So in future blogs it might not be about our life. It might just be something I have written to practice the skill of writing. Of course I hope that someone will find it entertaining. So enjoy the flood of writing that will take over this blog.
Some of this is not entirely a subject of interest because of my pending search for a job. I would love to see more writing at my girls school. As any parent would do I started to think about what we can do at home about this snag in their education. I decided that we would do a writers workshop this summer. I am a firm believer in killing two birds with one stone. This is why in my reading to catch up on teaching I started to read how to teach writing. Of course my biggest ah ha was not how to teach writing but that my writing is lacking. In order for kids and adults to become better writers they must WRITE! Shocking I know. In order to be better at something you must practice.
All that to say I am writing to practice writing. I can not sit around and not practice this skill any longer. So in future blogs it might not be about our life. It might just be something I have written to practice the skill of writing. Of course I hope that someone will find it entertaining. So enjoy the flood of writing that will take over this blog.
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