Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Instructions
Step1
At the beginning of class, share your journals. Don't emphasize feedback or discussion unless the students ask for it. Students will usually have something nice to say about each other's writing without any formal "feedback" session, so a hands-off approach is best. Your role is to give the class a safe place to share their writing.
Step2
Give your students a writing exercise every class. The people who enroll in adult journal-writing workshops typically have very little time to write outside of class. It is alright to let them do a lot of in-class writing.
Step3
Give students the option to stay a few minutes after class and socialize. Serve tea, coffee and cookies or have the students take turns bringing in refreshments. Your students will enjoy the class more if it is a chance for them to make connections with other writers.
Step4
Address any problems your students have in their writing as a class. If, for example, one of your students complains about writer's block, you can show the class exercises to loosen up. If a student complains that his writing feels stagnant and monotonous, have each student write a quick journal entry from the perspective of a favorite fictitious character as an exercise in changing perspective.
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