Some of my random thoughts for this week......
Dr. Rogers made a comment to me this week about a conversation that he had with one of his colleages about teaching students to write. I am not going to try to quote exactly what was said but basically his colleage said that the part of a students brain that is equiped to process the kind of information that you need a student to learn and apply in order to write at the level that we expect them to ( feel free to correct me if I am wrong here Dr. Rogers) does not actually develop until they are about 25 or 26. That is why they write such basic level "freshman" type papers for what seems like forever. I was pondering this new insite and I think that it might have an element of truth to it. I remember when I took my English 1010 class I took it with a friend of mine who was 2 years older than I was. I was about 20 at the time. I loved the class and I understood that I was not a very good writer, but I never really understood why. I studied hard, I went to class everyday, and I was learning alot. My friend never went to class, never studied and did not care. I knew that I was a more learned student then she was. I do not want to brag but I knew that I was smarter than she was and I had actually done quite a bit more writing than she had. But I recognied that despite this her writing was better than mine was. I could not figure it out? Was she just lucky? At the time I finally consigned myself to the idea that she just had a talent at B.S.
I left school for a few years and when I came back I was 23. When I took English 2010 from the same teacher that I had had previously I felt a little apprehensious because I had been out of academia for so long. But it was like concept just seemed to click in place like never before. I suddenly with little to no nudging from my teacher was able to write in ways that I had never written before. I understood concepts with ease that I had struggled with all my life in writing.
(If only the same would happen in my Math class)
Is it true? Is it impossible to fully teach younger students to be really good writers? Or could it have been other varibles in my life that effected my learning? What an interesting thought. Just having this knowledge will help me to understand the students that I work with a little better. I do not think that there is no hope for them but I might help me to be a bit more patient with them.
Other random thoughts....
I really hate fleece throws. Especially the ones with cheesy advertisement logos. If anyone were to give me one I would have to think that it was a cop out gift and they obviously do not know me very well. But to make the situation better I woud donate it to the diversity center blanket drive.
Dr. Rogers made a comment to me this week about a conversation that he had with one of his colleages about teaching students to write. I am not going to try to quote exactly what was said but basically his colleage said that the part of a students brain that is equiped to process the kind of information that you need a student to learn and apply in order to write at the level that we expect them to ( feel free to correct me if I am wrong here Dr. Rogers) does not actually develop until they are about 25 or 26. That is why they write such basic level "freshman" type papers for what seems like forever. I was pondering this new insite and I think that it might have an element of truth to it. I remember when I took my English 1010 class I took it with a friend of mine who was 2 years older than I was. I was about 20 at the time. I loved the class and I understood that I was not a very good writer, but I never really understood why. I studied hard, I went to class everyday, and I was learning alot. My friend never went to class, never studied and did not care. I knew that I was a more learned student then she was. I do not want to brag but I knew that I was smarter than she was and I had actually done quite a bit more writing than she had. But I recognied that despite this her writing was better than mine was. I could not figure it out? Was she just lucky? At the time I finally consigned myself to the idea that she just had a talent at B.S.
I left school for a few years and when I came back I was 23. When I took English 2010 from the same teacher that I had had previously I felt a little apprehensious because I had been out of academia for so long. But it was like concept just seemed to click in place like never before. I suddenly with little to no nudging from my teacher was able to write in ways that I had never written before. I understood concepts with ease that I had struggled with all my life in writing.
(If only the same would happen in my Math class)
Is it true? Is it impossible to fully teach younger students to be really good writers? Or could it have been other varibles in my life that effected my learning? What an interesting thought. Just having this knowledge will help me to understand the students that I work with a little better. I do not think that there is no hope for them but I might help me to be a bit more patient with them.
Other random thoughts....
I really hate fleece throws. Especially the ones with cheesy advertisement logos. If anyone were to give me one I would have to think that it was a cop out gift and they obviously do not know me very well. But to make the situation better I woud donate it to the diversity center blanket drive.
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