Talk:Ashley I. Okonkwo's Portfolio Page

Instructor comments on your mini-course -- Jz833665 (talk) 11:49, 13 December 2013 (EST)

I'm pleased to see your final mini-course, which will be useful for yourself as well as for other educators.

A few refinements you may further make:

• refine objectives of the whole mini-course as well as each unit

With teacher support, students will accurately write accordingly to a selected genre of their choice.

What do you mean by accurately?

Students will be knowledgeable and practice the routines and procedures of writing workshop
Students will start to understand the value of writing things for people to read and will practice using their best spacing, spelling, punctuation and handwriting (in classroom).

These two objective statements can be refined to use more specific performance verbs: to carry out/summarize(?) the routines and procedures of writing workshop; To recognize the importance of writing things for people to read...

Similarly, your unit 2's objectives also need to use performance-based verbs/actions to indicate what students will be able to do AFTER they've learned these:

Students will work through the writing process
Students will learn strategies for planning, revising, and publishing their stories to make their writing more fluent and easy to read

• Be more open and engaging toward student creative ideas

Given that writer workshops are really good for engaging students in creative writing, I'd suggest that you make the process more open-ended and student-driven. For example, the following statement can be changed to encourage creative ways of clustering, instead of only one CORRECT way.

Once students have correctly identified what belongs, they will write a short story about their topic...

• Improve navigation: I've added links in the end of each unit for you. See if you like them.

• Are you still working on your unit 3? It has little content.