Warm-Up Activity Part II

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This is a reflection on my warm-up activity that I wrote about in the first reflection.

I did the activity Writing Relay with one class of English Teachers for Writing Methodology, my homeroom :)
They are very high level so I just read through the directions with them (they were on a handout I made). I did one very quick example on the whiteboard for them.

Things I liked about the warm-up:
-my directions were simple and took little time.
-after reading Xie's paper for the Methodology class I decided to give them more time to find the errors in their own and the other team's whiteboard writing. In the past I would find 40-70% of the errors. This time I gave them around 5-10 seconds to think and the students found almost all the errors (75% or more). Some students even had suggestions for better language in some of the written sentences.

Things I want to improve:
- the energy level was OK but it has been better in the past. It was a very slow relay during the writing on the board time. However, as mentioned above the slower pace did help the students find more errors and they were able to correct them while writing and also while checking the other team's completed story.
-try to have each student write twice on the board as there was my sentence plus four others (four students per group) so the stories were short. Might have been funnier or more interesting if they were longer.

Anyways, I like forward to trying this activity with the other class of English Teachers next week. Never too late to make changes :)