Writing Teacher Survey

I just got back from the NCTE/NWP conference in Nashville, and in one of the sessions I attended on writing, one where I took a lot of notes, but after looking at them a week later, I realized that what I generated wasn't statements, but questions. Not questions for students, but questions for writing teachers to ask themselves. These are questions I'm going to try and answer myself, but as someone who firmly believes in being reflective as a teacher, I figured I should share this with others. Hope it helps you as much as it's going to help me--I can think of three things right now I am going to start to do better and more of in my instruction.

1. Where is the writing process (ex. plan, draft, revise, edit for final copy) used in your class?
2. Where is the writing process (ex. plan, draft, revise, edit for final copy) taught in your class?
3. How could this be enhanced in your classroom?
4. Where is the writing process (ex. plan, draft, revise, edit for final copy) used in content areas other than reading/writing your class?
5. How could this be enhanced in your classroom?
6. What strategies can your students use in class, in their writing, to organize information in their writing so it is easier to read and easier to follow?
7. What could you do this enhance this?
8. What do the writers in your room most need?
9. How do you provide community and support in your writing instruction?
10. What could you do this enhance this?
11. How much time is spent in your room with direct instruction in writing?
12. How much time is spent in your room with time for your students to just write (not writing in math, or writing during reading, but time to write what they want to write)?
13. How much ownership (most of the time, some of the time, less than half, not very often) do your students take over their writing?
14. What specific activities can you implement to increase student ownership in writing?
15. What lessons/activities do you afford students for immersion and investigations of other genres of literature?
16. What does scaffolding instruction mean to you?
17. How do you scaffold writing instruction so students are experimenting with the art, craft and skills needed to write in a variety or modes and genres?
18. Where, in the activities you use in your classroom, do you students feel successful as writers?
19. How could this be enhanced in your classroom?
20. What do you student most enjoy about having you as a writing teacher?
21. How could this be enhanced in your classroom?