Hannah+Strawser's+Summer+Institute+Reflection

In the span of the nine days I attended the project, I feel as if I learned more about writing instruction than I did during my entire undergraduate study at The University of Delaware. The undergraduate writing courses at UD consisted of a great deal of direct instruction, and simply copying correct and incorrect examples of sentences off of a chalkboard. The professors were simply the assigners, and were not side-by-side with the students in modeling how writing should be taught. On the contrary, the teachers at the writing project were invaluable and incredibly helpful in showing us ways that writing can be implemented in the classroom in a more visibly present and relevant way. Thanks to the project, I have gained an incredible amount of ideas in order to make material both relevant and rigorous for my students, as well as ideas for research and incorporating technology in the classroom.