home

With students due to be referred to the writing lab starting mid-October, it’s time to begin to set up the lab for our use. At the moment, I’m working on trying to clear the shelves to make room for a professional/practical writing library for tutors and students. I’m waiting to hear back about what to do with the books that currently occupy those shelves. I’ve also begun bring in any books I have on teaching writing and targeted writing strategies. Any books of your own that you would like to donate to the cause would be welcome and very much appreciated. It’s my hope that to start, we can begin to pool our resources to provide all writing lab tutors with as big a toolbox as possible for helping to support our student writers. To that end, I’d also ask that we begin collecting copies of our own writing lesson plans and materials to share with one another in the lab, particularly any dealing with the entry level writing skills on the list developed by the group at last Tuesday’s meeting (see attached). Since these were established as a starter list of writing lab referral areas of need, the more materials we arm ourselves with prior to students arriving in the lab, the better prepared (and less stressed) we’ll be to meet student needs. I’ve requested another filing cabinet from Bob Eshbach to store these lesson plans and materials for all to use. Speaking of materials, I’m looking into getting us some more computers for the lab. Hopefully we can free some up soon. Until students begin to arrive, we’ll need to use our Writing Lab periods to bring-in, develop, tweak, read up on, research, discover, brainstorm, and collaborate on strategies, lessons, and materials at a variety of difficulty levels to serve a variety of students with a variety of needs. I've set up this WikiSpace as a means of sharing ideas and collaborating across periods. You can upload lessons here, insert links to on-line resources & tools, dialogue, plan, etc...