The Value Of Author Visits Assemblies

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.

In every student experience with various authors, they get to identify their hidden creativity or enhance it to write or see issues from a different perspective. In almost every student experience with an author, they get to understand their writing struggles and the creativity to use in writing. This helps boost student creativity.

These gatherings make the students and teachers become risk takers. The fear of what people would think about your idea is what hides most people from pursuing their talents and skills. In many cases during an assignment, a student is focused on doing what adds up to his grade and fears doing anything extra. Mentorship session from an expert encourages one to become a risktaker of what ignites their interest without the fear of judgment.

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.

An everyday interaction with teachers makes the students close to them and to develop selective listening since they tend to take teachers as their family. In this case, you will find a teacher explaining the same thing over and over again, but it does not sink in the minds of learners until they hear the same thing from someone different. This can be an expert publisher who validates what the teacher taught them in different terms or actions.

These sessions help form friendships. Interaction with different experts helps boost friendships among students, teachers, and the scribe. When the students socialize with these experts at a personal level, they build good relationships and continue seeking writing guidance from the expert even after the mentorship session. Teachers also become creative and may coach clients of the professional to enhance their creativity.

They motivate writing. Being a writer is a profession just like any other only that one can still become a writer as a part-time work to satisfy his interest. When a scribe presents his tricks and tips to becoming an efficient and prominent writer, many students are left with an urge to try the same. Besides encouraging students to venture into writing, it also motivates teachers to do something else like writing as part-time work following their interest.




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