The Arts of Teaching

While reading this whole chapter, I couldn’t help but trying to decide which ideology that I would use in my classroom. I thought this is impossible to choose just one! Then thankfully the end told me I didn’t have to pick just one. Thank goodness! I enjoyed the idea of progressive literacy the most at first. That made me the most sense to me. Being able to have the best of both worlds in the classroom with my students. I grew up always learning how important it is that you know the basic writing skills and you knew what to do with that information as well. I like the idea of students being able to choose the things that they learned about but I also understand the issues with that as well. I’m sure there would need to be some sort of guiding them to choose things that would be appropriate for certain kinds of topics. I know that I personally learn better when I’m able to choose the things that I’m reading and writing about. I thought the idea of cultural literacy was almost ridicu...

     As far as the first two pieces of text go, from the NCTE and from Radical Eyes, there is a connection being made between what we as teachers need to be doing for our students, rather than teaching them to get good grades on tests for our benefit. Both pieces spent a lot of time talking about how important and useful it can be to have some sort of handheld device or digital media at your fingertips. And yet, I think that so many people still try and stifle the use of these great resources for sake of keeping tradition. In my high school experiences our teachers used projectors, and never went out of their way to use other technologies what-so-ever. Was that because they were not properly taught how to go about using them? Or was it simply laziness and old habit that kept them from reforming their lessons to include some sort of digital aspects?       Now, my sister just graduated from High School last year. Her class had...