Meeting+Notes

Notes from our first meeting (9/14) Present: Natalie Simmons, Jeff Bailey, Meg Doughty, Cathy Charles, Donna Peare

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//What a great resource this is! If student writing would benefit from a real audience, I may be able to help with setting up peer feedback from other schools and/or from adults who would be willing to respond to an early draft. I also am collecting student work to display in my office, if there is interest from the students in that.//

We discussed deficits that we have seen in student writing 1) Not supporting their opinions or statements 2) Mechanics 3) One draft writing process 4) Not looking stuff over before they hand it in 5) Lack of caring about their work 6) Inability to critically look at or improve work in any way. 7) Lack of internal motivation or pride in their work 8) Lack of reading and applying feedback 9) inability (or lack of desire) to write formally (using "I") 10) inability to proofread/peer edit 11) coherent elements, flow, transitions

What do we want to get out of this group? tips and tricks for teaching writing improving student's writing how to improve student writing group scoring to understand traits

Next meeting: Discuss Ideas and Content Group scoring Tips & tricks