Sunday, November 7, 2010
Blog 5
I enjoyed reading chapter 9 in Improving Adolescent Literacy. It talks about the power of the pen. Writing requires students to use different kinds of knowledge at different times is what the book says. I have found some ways to use writing in PE and it has been effective to my teaching. I use exit slips all the time when I am finished teaching new skills to my students. It allows me to have instant feedback from every student, even the quiet ones. Obviously kids do not want to come to PE and write so I have to use creative ways to allow the students to write. I like the idea that writing forces a student to think and use prior knowledge with new knowledge. I feel writing is an important skill to develop. It is used all through life and is required to survive in our world. Writing can be used in many ways and can be used by every teacher. We as teachers can utilize writing when used correctly.
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You bloged that "writing requires students to use different kinds of knowledge at different times". As simple as that sounds, I could not agree more.
ReplyDeleteI hope that my students will take writting serious and if they do not I will try things that I learned in this class. In chap 5 of Readicide, the book ends on a powerful note. Where does this book leaves us? For me I see that the core problem with performance is reading and more so understanding what students read.
Yeah, literacy has got to be kind of hard to address in PE. Exit slips are a great way to require some writing in a class that is mostly focused on physical activity rather than mental activity. Well said Josh:)
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