EduBlog Insights

The classroom teacher of the students I have been working with on NewsQuest greeted me with great excitement yesterday. She had a folder in her hands and could not wait to share the contents. She had just received the scores for her students on this year’s writing test. Each year fifth graders in Georgia take a writing test. Students are scored and rated as emerging, developing, focusing, experimenting, engaging, or extending writers. The link above explains those categories in more detail Mrs. Mateling said her children have never done better on the writing test than this year. She kindly told me that much of the credit needs to go to me. I told her no, I was sure the weblog writing helped but she was the classroom teacher and that’s where credit is due. However, I view this as somewhat of a validation of a real focus on writing on weblogs for students. Eight of her students are in my group of 11. Five were rated as extending writers and 3 as engaging writers!