8. Informal writing is an effective way to learn course
content. Teachers need not
choose writing over content, or vice versa.
I completely agree with this concept. The more writing a
person does in a classroom, formal or not, the better they become as writers,
and the more informal writing a person does the more comfortable and confident
they become in their own writing style and voice. Thus, using informal writing
as a tool to learn/extend/appreciate course content does double duty of
building writers up and teaching the information in a way that students can
approach from a place of ease and understanding. Quick writes and free writing
on topics can lead to discoveries and bursts of understanding in the same way
that teaching math in a variety of methods can eventually connect with students
of different learning styles, but has the added benefit of giving students
space to be creative, opinionated and as verbose as they’re willing to be or
feel like being in the moment without judging their use of words specifically.
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