Creative Writing

I felt that the creative writing workshop this past wednesday was the opposite of helpful on many accounts. Personally I found it rather difficult to bring in a piece of creative writing because that is the one genre of writing that I feel least confident in. I also felt like the instructors approach all around was very ineffective. I felt like I was in 6th grade getting yelled at by my LA teacher. I was not at all motivated to participate because 1) our talking did not feel like a discussing, but rather our instructer asking us questions and attempting to force our thoughts into a certain direction, rather than allowing our thoghts and conversation to flow and rehulate the discussion. 2) Her demand of questions/comments (I'll sit here until I hear one more) was very unauthentic and made me timid to participate because I did not want to make a mistake. I felt that her teaching pedagogy on a whole was entirely uneffective and I hope to never lead a classroom like that in my entire carreer of teaching.
When it came time to actually share the creative pieces that we brought I think that time could have been used much more effectively. If we had split into partners and actually tutored eachother, like we will if we ever have to tutor a creative writing student, I think it could have been helpful. We could have determined what type of comments and areas are effective and good to focus on. Instead she stood at our table and went around with an incredibly authoritative approach telling us that it was our turn to share (not asking if we would like to, or ever even recognizing our opinions). None of the people in my group actually had a piece of creative writing that we were actively working on (there was one well established idea), so her extremely in depth questions of our motives as a writer, why we chose to use certain words, what we were trying to convey as a whole...were speculative at best, if not a waste of time. I felt much more attacked than I did tutored, and I certainly did not feel as though I was taught anything.
I learned more about how not to tutor a creative writing session through this workshop than I did about how to tutor one.