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Sunday, November 5, 2017

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By Martha Roberts


There is no other known way to involve students in writing, reading and a creative learning process than author lectures. Hiring a credible author who is knowledgeable and has written several reading materials, would be the best way to mentor your students. It is not even the reading materials these authors have written that makes this process meaningful. It is because meeting the experts in person makes this whole writing process, books, and talent, real to students and teachers and easily accessible. This article highlights some benefits of author visits assemblies.

They encourage reading. Most students find reading tiresome and stressful and therefore contributing to their poor class results too. After a mentorship program from an expert, students shed away their old reading habits and becomes serious with eagerness to read more and more materials. They learn that to become a prominent writer, you must develop a reading habit.

They promote creativity. Getting mentorship from various authors with different exposures, helps a student boost his creativity. Various experts use different approaches in writing, and hence every experience with different experts, learners get a chance to learn something new and creative ideas.

These sessions encourage risk-taking. There are many things that our interest leads us to, but most people are always afraid to take the risk or the step of what could be a gateway to their career. Guidance and experiences from these experts motivate one to take the necessary risks to ensure they achieve their goals. Students become risk takers with their teachers, by going beyond their grade targets in assignments and exams.

They also ignite sparks in students and teachers. In any case, you should never underestimate the power of someone narrating his life story. This is something almost every writer does when he visits an institution as part of his encouragement to students or teachers. It helps jumpstart the unique abilities of learners and skills to do something he loves.

These meetings also validate teachers. Students tend to develop a selective listening trait from a teacher they are used to where they filter out what they want to hear making the teacher repeat the same thing over and over for it to sink in their minds. But with the help of an author explaining the same thing, students understand better and validate the lessons from their teachers, since they tend to take the expert more serious.

They help build friendships. Building a personal relationship with such an expert places someone in a position to ask for special favors from the professional. For instance, if a student develops an interest in writing after the session, they may depend on the expert to guide them through the journey by submitting their articles to him for verification and guidance on how to publish.

They often seek to motivate teachers and students to venture into writing. When teachers and students realize they have what it takes to become writers, they find their voice. By hearing the paths of different writers, from gathering ideas to publishing books, one is inspired to see strategies and fields to write on.




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