Chapter 2: Writing Workshop

Implementing the writing process through writing workshop is impressive. "[It] is an interdisciplinary writing technique which can build students' fluency in writing through continuous, repeated exposure to the process of writing" (http://www.teachersfirst.com). Teachers use writing workshops to intoduce the writing process and share the results. Students work in authentic ways and finally will be independent writer. During the workshop, students work independently on different writing stages so monitoring is an important way to figure out and help students. "Status of the class", "conferencing"and "keeping project checklists" are ways of monitoring students. Teachers should remember that for students, "learning the writing process is far more important than the quality of [the] project" (Tompkins, 2008, p. 50).

As Sunmi quoted in her blog, teachers' role is to facilitate not to interfere to teach or fix. In this sense, writing workshop seems a very practical and helpful tool in class. It could be a little chaotic or messy at first for an inexperienced teacher in this approach or method. Time and hands-on experiences will teach to be a capable classroom manager.