Welcome to my world.

Well this is my first blog I have ever done. It's a little intimidating putting my own ideas and writings for people to see. Who cares what I have to say?

This blog for now will be used for a class in teachers college about how to teach students to write across the curriculum. I will try my hardest to share resources I find that will not only help my own teaching but help others out there who may stumble upon this. Perhaps the research and postings will germinate my long dormant writing craft and I will continue producing my own work long past the end of the class.

The first task I have to accomplish for this is to simply write about what I think about when I hear the word 'writing.' This task at first was difficult for me as I never really thought about what writing actually meant. I mean I know what it means and all it encompasses, but actually coming up with my own narrative on the subject was definitely challenging. Writing to me at first thought is about creativity. Allowing anyone with the skill to write down their thoughts and feelings whether coherent or not helps nurture our minds well into our golden years. It also nurtures our soul. I don't mean in a religious or philosophical way, just that it helps get out our emotions if need be and helps to calm down our minds. Writing for education brings up a completely different set of thoughts. The word 'boring' popped into my mind almost immediately. Even to this day when I am given a writing task I immediately roll my eyes and think 'great, another useless paper that no one will read.' The reason I took this class was to help students expand what writing is really about. Sure they have to write essays periodically in high school and most definitely will in university, but how can writing become fun again for them? That is what I aim to accomplish in my own teaching strategies. My teachables are music and history, and while yes writing is a huge part of history at the post-graduate level, it doesn't seem to be important in high school history classes. That is from my own experience in practicum. Music on the other hand in high schools doesn't focus on writing at all. I would love to be able to inspire music students to write about their music and share that with their classmates and myself. I only began to write about music in university and I found it an extremely enriching experience in that I delve deep into the topics I found interesting and pick out information that wasn't popular knowledge. I hope to be able to learn many engaging types of writing strategies to help my students develop their own writing craft.

It's been a pleasure.

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