Jo McLeay

International Edublogging Women’s Day 2006
Celebration 6

Jo McLeay

Jo McLeay is a teacher of English in a secondary school in Melbourne, Australia. She is the also the newly apponted Head of English at her school. She is completing a Masters of Education by research. The Open Classroom is one of my favorite blogs! Why? Well the focus is on students, writing, blogging, good teaching and technology. All these topics are near and dear to my heart.

Jo spent time reading other educators’ blogs, saw the potential and decided to join in by blogging herself. What a gift she is to the educational blogosphere. She has set up blogs with her students in her writing classes. Her reflections are invaluable. She has so many good posts. I’d like to share a few with you:

All About Writing

Blogging = Writing

Reflections on Research

2005 Reflections

Writing Narratives

International Edublogging Women’s Day 2006

Then today’s post, Responding to Student Writing. really touched my heart. She was spending one of her weekend days, as we teachers do, “marking” her student papers. She took the time to blog, asking herself this question:

So how can we make the process more useful for the students and make more effective use of our time?

Here’s her answer:

Thinking about these articles again now I realise that responding to student writing means, like blogging and commenting, being part of a conversation between student and teacher and, I sincerely hope, between student and student. Wish me luck as I sit here once again engaged in this honourable task of bringing out the best in our student writers.

That says it all.

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