What is Schooliness? Maxim 1: Writing Lessons
Friday, 29 February 2008 Clay Burell 
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School writing: Assignments by teachers who don’t want to read them, to students who don’t want to write them; a perpetual and unnecessary misery upon which hinges the student’s future, and the teacher’s present, livelihood.
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No. 1 — February 29th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Clay,
I understand the misery. How about teachers who say they don’t have time to read? Or they just don’t read…How about teachers that don’t write… or say they don’t have time to write…? I am working with six ELA teachers that their writing instruction is based on how they were taught in school. I see writing taught through the use of grammar instruction and teachers wonder why kids don’t understand grammar. They can’t teach reading because they don’t read themselves. Reading instruction is limited to a worksheet and a lecture. Or a group of teachers who say they don’t have time for student to read because they have to teach reading and writing.
Misery would be having to read what the student wrote if this is the way I taught. It is crazy in American schools….
Bill
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No. 2 — March 2nd, 2008 at 4:37 am
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