{"id":1679,"date":"2016-02-23T21:17:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T04:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2016-02-24T08:04:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T15:04:25","slug":"the-power-of-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1679","title":{"rendered":"The Power of We"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150110.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150110.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1680\" \/><\/a>This morning I watched students edit one another\u2019s essays. Their expressions said it all. The occasional smile and\/or nod told me the pedagogy was working.<\/p>\n<p>I have students read and comment on each other\u2019s writing because . . .<\/p>\n<p>Positive reinforcement works. Praising a student\u2019s strengths makes those strengths even stronger.<\/p>\n<p>Modeling works. Observing successful strategies in a peer\u2019s writing helps one adopt those strategies in his or her own stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Groups work. It\u2019s something I learned in summer camp and church jobs before I became a college teacher.<\/p>\n<p>When God said it wasn\u2019t good for man to be alone, he was referring to more than the need of Adam for an Eve.<\/p>\n<p>Call it the power of we. People succeed best when they succeed together. In church, we called it fellowship; in college, we call it collaborative learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I watched students edit one another\u2019s essays. Their expressions said it all. The occasional smile and\/or nod told me the pedagogy was working. I have students read and comment on each other\u2019s writing because . . . Positive reinforcement works. Praising a student\u2019s strengths makes those strengths even stronger. Modeling works. Observing successful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1684,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}