Senior Lecturer Dr Tim Taylor discusses how to create a classroom community while teaching life writing. Creating a sense of community in the classroom is correlated to more active student participation, engagement, retention of learning (Stubb, J., Pyhalto, K., & Lonka K., 2011). Classroom community also creates affective advantages among students, such as commitment, a sense of belonging, and a feeling of shared goals with the teacher and classmates.
This seminar focuses on the importance of giving students something meaningful to write about when teaching writing – and how to do it, whether f2f or with online e-resources. Dr Taylor also shares his experience of trying to nurture a sense of classroom community, bringing benefits to students’ learning experience, especially with the increase of online teaching and learning. His approach has included Action Planning and a Case Study focus. These are preliminary findings, with more survey data collection and analysis planned.
View his presentation slides here.
(length: 52:59)
Outline of this Sharing Session: “Writing Your Life”: Improving Storytelling and Classroom Community, F2F and/or Online
Presenter: Dr Tim Taylor
*Note that the Flip app (formerly Flipgrid) was discontinued by Microsoft in October 2024. For more details about developing classroom community, please visit his poster page here: https://humbol.eduhk.hk/posters/timtaylor/.
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