Students
They want to learn—I can tell. And I am trying to hold onto that feeling I had this summer as a student in a drawing class. I struggled. I just couldn’t get it. It took me a really long time to draw anything while the students to my left and right seemed to do it effortlessly.
Writing comes easily to me (well—relatively speaking), but it does not to most of my students. They struggle.
I asked—what’s the most fun you ever had writing something? And they mentioned secret notes, personal letters, collaborative stories, and papers about subjects that mattered to them.
I asked—what’s the hardest part of writing for you? And they talked about run-on sentences, the blank page, running out of things to write…
I hope I can find a way to keep the fun parts and discipline them into the hard parts.
And I hope I can stay mindful of my student self as I play the role of my teacher self.
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