Benefits for Practitioners

Job satisfaction. Learners making progress, engaging in the work, co-operating with you and others, making progress that they can see for themselves. That’s what I come for, every day.

A stronger relationship with learners that goes both ways. You see them engaged in trying to improve, so you feel connected with them in this enterprise of improving their writing. They see you engaging with their writing, and through their writing with their lives and their ideas, so they feel connected with you.

Higher learner retention. Learners can make quick, visible progress in writing, which increases their motivation to stay in the program longer.

No outside marking. You do the work of responding to the writing in the writing group, when the learner is present to take it in.

No more of that frustrating marking cycle in which you spend time making written comments on learners’ writing and hand it back to them, they hardly look at it, and then make the same mistakes the next time they write.