Show Notes
- How does communication for Congressional campaigns prepare someone to advise students to write more effectively
- How does the Capstone Project combine with the Sustainable Development Goals?
- Does Connecting with the students promote learning?
Welcome to today's episode of the Owlcast. We have with us Helen Seretis and Michael Januzzi who are in charge of the Writing Studio in the Learning Commons of ACS Athens. The Writing Studio is just one of the services available for students, along with the Math, Research and Media Studios in the Learning Commons, which sole purpose is to enhance the learning experience of the students, by providing support, guidance and necessary resources as the school community takes learning to the next level. Today with Ms. Seretis and Mr. Januzzi we discuss:
- The therapy couch of the writing studio
- Meta-strategies around writing and creative approaches
- The bad thoughts bunny, and why it's full
- Reaching out to the students
- How to motivate higher learners
- Handling over 2000 projects and assignments per semester
- Supporting students while setting boundaries
- Using creative writing as a way to express personal frustrations
- Using personal interests in order to learn a foreign language
- How to gamify EFL Language support
- Writing college essays in a personal and unique way - the case of the celery crunch
- Using hardship to grow, and
- The Capstone project: bringing the classroom into the real world
