Go for The Goals. (2016 Workshop Goals)
For this workshop series, our goals were:
- to introduce teachers to digital tools and strategies that can enhance their teaching of writing.
- to offer a safe space to experiment, take risks, fail, grow, and change.
- to create a cohort of teachers who will share and support each other in developing.
- to make digital-pedagogical resources available through the CDEx.
We wanted attendees to go home with ideas for how to use digital tools to enhance their teaching of writing and with one assignment or unit jump started .
Sample Activity: Take two minutes to write down what you’d like to gain from the workshop. Pair up with someone you don’t know and share: 1) who you are 2) why you’re here 3) what you’d like to learn.
Goals Aren’t Lip Service.
Setting goals and intentions works especially well when you write those goals down. Jackie uses a writing goals log most every day to nag her creative development. Why?
- Writing is the doing part of thinking.
- Writing a goal makes it real.
- Writing a goal gives it power.
If you want to know where she gets this stuff from, listen to episode # 183 of her favorite podcast: YOGABODY & Lucas Rockwood. In that episode he talks about the value of writing down short-term goals and giving those goals a “social reality.”