Using the Workshop Approach in the High School English Classroom Quotes

“One of the hardest concepts for students to grasp or accept about writing is the time that it takes to make something good.”
― Cynthia D. Urbanski, Using the Workshop Approach in the High School English Classroom: Modeling Effective Writing, Reading, and Thinking Strategies for Student Success

“I agree with Tom Romano (1987) when he says that the purpose of a grade for writing should be to reflect the growth that student has undergone, make the student want to write again, and give students credit for the good-faith effort they have put into the piece (p. 128).”
― Cynthia D. Urbanski, Using the Workshop Approach in the High School English Classroom: Modeling Effective Writing, Reading, and Thinking Strategies for Student Success

“My exam allowed him to show me what he had learned rather than trying to find out what he had not learned. By allowing him to practice all that he had learned for the year rather than reciting that knowledge, I gave him a chance to do something meaningful, and it paid off.”
― Cynthia D. Urbanski, Using the Workshop Approach in the High School English Classroom: Modeling Effective Writing, Reading, and Thinking Strategies for Student Success

“Many of our students suffer under the illusion that as English teachers we know all there is to know about everything we read as soon as we read it. They don’t realize that we have read it a dozen times and that we come up with new ideas each time we read it. Or even worse, they assume that we are just using the materials from the teacher’s manual. That certainly isn’t modeling learning to think for oneself!”
― Cynthia D. Urbanski, Using the Workshop Approach in the High School English Classroom: Modeling Effective Writing, Reading, and Thinking Strategies for Student Success