von Ersun Warncke | Feb. 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
Preparing students to conquer college writing Essay AcceleratorWrite to Success is hard at work on the Essay Accelerator — a course that prepares learners to conquer college and beyond. Full disclosure: building an online course, website, etc. is a technological...
von Ersun Warncke | Feb. 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
Can task repetition improve writing results? Last week, I completed a course that seriously challenged my learning skills. It involved memorizing a vast number of facts and answering questions in a specific format. This might be ‘meat and drink’ (as my instructor put...
von Ersun Warncke | Feb. 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
Why resources often trump resolve This is a piece I wrote last spring, but wanted to share as the issues it raises have not gone anywhere. Education demands equitable access to resources, or it will end before it starts. On Tuesday, around half-past-nine in the...
von Ersun Warncke | Feb. 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
Discovering the joy of rewritingMany students dread revision. Why do I have to do it again? They ask.I love revising and teaching revision because it is a rare and precious commodity: a genuine second chance.How many of us, if we could, would take the opportunity to...
von Ersun Warncke | Jan. 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
Writing to rememberIf you don’t already, subscribe to Strayed’s SubstackThis interview originally appeared on the excellent but now defunct Ideas Tap website. The organization, which was dedicated to supporting young people pursuing creative careers, closed in 2015...
von Ersun Warncke | Jan. 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
The power of perspective in writingMiracle or Tragedy?Succumbing to algorithmic prodding (and a morose fascination with flight disasters) I watched Society of the Snow.As a film, it was better than hoped-for. But it was looking for the down-low on what happened (like...
von Ersun Warncke | Jan. 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
Teaching students with specific exceptional reading skillsAmong the notable words I learned in 2022 was hyperlexia. Burrowing into articles about autism, the term popped up. Hyper = excessive, lexia = related to words. Defining hyperlexiaIn 1997, Aram described...
von Ersun Warncke | Jan. 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
Supporting students to optimize learning As young people return to their studies after the holidays, it seems like the good time to discuss how the quality of their learning can be improved.One common — and notably underdiagnosed in girls — challenge is...
von Ersun Warncke | Jan. 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
Writing that shines a lightLife never ceases to be difficult, to paraphrase Rilke. Amidst its slings and arrows, there is often little to comfort and guide.Without generous writers, there would be almost nothing to help us see in the dark.Among recent difficulties...
von Ersun Warncke | Dez. 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Why challenging the status quo mattersA new realityRecently, I watched Netflix’s relationship reality show The Ultimatum: Queer Love.If you haven’t seen it, the show features five lesbian couples that split up and reshuffle. One partner in each wants to get married,...
