Week 1, Pedagody Forum

At the first meeting, I appreciated how switching papers unnerved me. Thinking about this after class, I realized that to better ourselves as writers, nervousness helps. It forces writer accountability to someone else. The next day, I employed a similar technique in my class. The students switched papers to highlight and discuss their own writing they completed the week before. Mimicking the exercise of passing our papers certainly opened my eyes to how "safe" I play in when work shopping in my own classroom. Surprising to me, the students gladly accepted the help from their peers. Also, this allows students to practice the language of writing. So often, teachers posses this "secret" writing language, and we are the only ones to speak it. I can't wait to have my students practice this language more.