Well sports fans, I'm late to this party because of previous technical problems. If I'm honest, I have to admit to technological incompetence on a grand scale. Rather than continue whining I'll get on with it. I am going to use my linear analytic hat to approach this work. I am a science and math geek of a student teacher so, working through my book in a step-by-step orderly manner fits my need.
My chosen book is, Content-Area Writing: Every Teacher's Guide. It is a weighty tome, not in terms of volume of pages but, in its depth of coverage of its topic. A great deal of "education" reading I have done since joining the ALP STEM program can be characterized as screaming, yelling and knashing of teeth about various things that are wrong with the education system today and the denizens that inhabit it-teachers, politicians, administrators, and worst of all the students who are the beneficiaries of the wrong doing the system is foisting upon them.
The authors of my book are very good at pointing out that student writing at all levels is quicklygoing to hell in a hand cart, quickly. They postulate that several things have been happening over the past 20 + years to facilitate this process. Their laundry list includes:
1. The tyranny of testing that leaves little time for teaching
2. The state curriculum gurus who demand that we teach widely through our content areas
3. The rise of and unbridled usage of disruptive technology (some of which is beyond my ken {for those of us from Rio Rancho, ken means understanding})
But, unlike most authors I have come across, these folks pose some interesting solutions right in the first chapter. More on my favorite solutions in later postings.
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