'360' Newsletter

Ramin Yazdanpanah, Ph.D. | April 26, 2024

A resource for students and teachers, a quote to inspire, and a question to ponder. It really is the little things we do consistently that lead to great outcomes.

10 Steps to Teach Writing

This week, I had the pleasure of presenting to educators worldwide on teaching writing, the cultural expectations we all bring to the writing process, and collaborative writing activities with human and AI friends. Hearing constructive feedback and words of gratitude from passionate educators who find my content helpful, such as this one, is always appreciated:

 

Dear Dr. Yazdanpanah,

Thank you so much for the webinar.
It was just awesome.
During an hour you provided so many practical insights and suggestions to use with EFL/ESL learners that could be used during classes.
Looking forward to attending more webinars!
Thank you.

Best regards,
D.D.

 

Below, you can watch the recording of the IPDAE webinar where I present the following 10 steps essential to the teaching of writing:

 

1. Provide objectives & rationale

2. Activate/build schema

3. Analyze examples

4. Highly controlled practice

5. Moderately controlled practice

6. Extensive practice

7. Focused feedback

8. Follow-up practice

9. Publish to share work

10. Reflect and set goals 

Scaffolding Rigor

We all know the importance of developing higher-order thinking skills (HOTS), such as critical thinking, analysis, and creating. However, we should also keep in mind that the foundations of HOTS are lower-order thinking skills (LOTS), such as building content knowledge, vocabulary, and basic comprehension. After all, it takes a LOT of practice to be able to handle HOT tasks!

 

The resource Bloom's Taxonomy for ELL Students provides comprehension questions for LOTS and HOTS across different levels of language proficiency. This can be very useful when designing instruction to support and scaffold students' ability to succeed on summative assessments as well as real-world tasks.

 

The following image of Bloom's Rose provides another perspective of the taxonomy, providing associated learning verbs to the core LOTS and HOTS skills with activities and real-world applications.

Source

Quote

“Thorns do not keep a rose from blooming, neither should obstacles keep you from success.”


- Matshona Dhliwayo 

Question

What is holding me back from blooming?  

Until next week,

Ramin aka "Dr. Yaz"

 

p.s. To all who are intentionally engaged in bettering themselves daily to support those around them, bravo. Remember that it's the process and not always the product that matters most.

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