My identity as a writing teacher.

Teachers, by nature, are verbally strong. We are known for our usage of tongue than pen.

So I always used my oral expressions to communicate my ideas to others. I used to write only when I was asked. So my narrative skills are backed by verbal skills as well as the call of the time. 

Though, I was participating in various speech competitions, I was poor, disinclined in writing. (In that manner , it's better to say I am poor in writing.) I am Substandard in analysing anything critically but good at imagination ( I feel 🙂). 

After entering into the teaching profession, I felt the need for creative writing, where I wrote few skits for my students on different occasions and made them enact.

Then I realised that teachers writing identities also shape their writing instruction and affects the attitudes and values passed to the students about writing.

With regard to my students, I haven't done anything so far to improve creative writing skills among them. But I will try to grow interest and hunger for imagination in them.

 

I need to improve in areas like coherency, clarity, concision and precision. To train my students in writing, I need to train myself first.

In that sense, I want to allow myself to be a beginner because no one starts of being excellent and I want to strive for progress not perfection. After all, mistakes allow thinking to happen.

Hoping to get  proper guidance from this CELT training.🙏