I don’t have a very specific mantra or central belief system within my writing classroom. I maybe did coming into the quarter but I also remember mentally instructing myself to remove my expectations and preconceived notions of what I would be doing. For the most part any persisting ideology about writing instruction that was present […]
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Worship at the Altar of Criticality
The fostering of critical thought in my students is far and away the aspect of my classroom that I guard most closely. If they leave my class remembering nothing but to ask why, why are we reading/writing this, why did the author make that choice, why is this a requirement, why am I attending school […]