Teaching Writing

For the last two weeks, I have been a writing teacher. Yes, I, who teaches science, was a writing teacher. And I don’t think I did too bad. I think my students learned as much as I did. First, I am not an English/writing teacher, but I do read books and I do write (see this here blog!). I never really doubted that I could teach writing, I knew I would have a great group of writing teachers backing me up, and I did. A really great group of teachers and one GREAT co-teacher.

I had to get used to a co-teach that taught. My “co-teachers” before were really more there to encourage students to do as I wanted, but not so much on the “I’ll take over and teach the class”. So this was an all-around different experience, new topic and a co-teacher who took over the class. The students were great. Not many of them, but the ones who did show up grew leaps and bounds in their writing. I was very proud of them.

Now it is time to look forward. To the Dissertation. I have a topic, now I just have to convince my advisor that is the right topic. And start writing…with all the new skills I have learned as a writing teacher!