My compelling question: How can I engage students in collaborative writing curriculum in the 21st Century?
As a student majoring in Education, although I don’t have any teaching experience, I believe that I can understand their actual needs during my learning period from a student’s perspective, so as to be fully prepared for my future teaching career. Now, as a student, it’s necessary work for me to write articles, diaries and papers. Every time when I begin to write something, it’s very difficult and troublesome for me to choose a good topic. In the process of writing, I may repeat some same mistakes sometimes. Then, I will correct them one by one. This process is very annoying and tedious. Because writing is a very solitary art. Usually it’s just you, in a room, with a word processor, for hour upon hour. That’s why so many people don’t like writing. Therefore, I began to consider ways to make students like writing and make the writing process no longer boring. Later on, I found that writing articles in cooperation with my classmates not only allows me to consider my articles from multiple perspectives, but also makes the writing process more interesting and improves writing efficiency. However, most writing courses provided by the school are aimed at teaching students to independently complete the whole writing process. As a result, students are not aware that the writing process is actually important to writing. Therefore, a number of improvement measures for most writing courses should be implemented, including changing the single writing model and increasing activities in which students can complete writing in cooperation.
The NLGL program has provided me with many teaching pedagogies and has given me confidence in my future teaching career, and helping students to improve their writing proficiency. With the application of new literacy and global learning in all the courses this semester, I have learned how to start my teaching in my collaborative writing class, including the skills and strategies of using multimodal reading and writing strategies to motivate students and applying new digital tools in the digital writing workshop in writing class ECI 520, rethinking the concept of cosmopolitanism in the 21st century through ECI 524, and how to developing teacher leadership as a new teacher in ECI 508. With the goal of helping students become a fantastic writer, and with ideas enlightened by what I have learned so far in NLGL program , I come out with my compelling question: How can I engage students in the collaborative writing curriculum in the 21st Century ?
As a student majoring in Education, although I don’t have any teaching experience, I believe that I can understand their actual needs during my learning period from a student’s perspective, so as to be fully prepared for my future teaching career. Now, as a student, it’s necessary work for me to write articles, diaries and papers. Every time when I begin to write something, it’s very difficult and troublesome for me to choose a good topic. In the process of writing, I may repeat some same mistakes sometimes. Then, I will correct them one by one. This process is very annoying and tedious. Because writing is a very solitary art. Usually it’s just you, in a room, with a word processor, for hour upon hour. That’s why so many people don’t like writing. Therefore, I began to consider ways to make students like writing and make the writing process no longer boring. Later on, I found that writing articles in cooperation with my classmates not only allows me to consider my articles from multiple perspectives, but also makes the writing process more interesting and improves writing efficiency. However, most writing courses provided by the school are aimed at teaching students to independently complete the whole writing process. As a result, students are not aware that the writing process is actually important to writing. Therefore, a number of improvement measures for most writing courses should be implemented, including changing the single writing model and increasing activities in which students can complete writing in cooperation.
The NLGL program has provided me with many teaching pedagogies and has given me confidence in my future teaching career, and helping students to improve their writing proficiency. With the application of new literacy and global learning in all the courses this semester, I have learned how to start my teaching in my collaborative writing class, including the skills and strategies of using multimodal reading and writing strategies to motivate students and applying new digital tools in the digital writing workshop in writing class ECI 520, rethinking the concept of cosmopolitanism in the 21st century through ECI 524, and how to developing teacher leadership as a new teacher in ECI 508. With the goal of helping students become a fantastic writer, and with ideas enlightened by what I have learned so far in NLGL program , I come out with my compelling question: How can I engage students in the collaborative writing curriculum in the 21st Century ?