Blog #10!

There are many texts we have read that I was able to gain positive information that I will take to my classroom in the near future. The ones that were included as favorite were John C. Bean’s Engaging Ideas, Gee, and Peter Elbow’s High Stakes and Low Stakes in Assigning and Responding to Writing.

I found John C. Bean’s Engaging Ideas to be the most useful text and practical text of the readings for this semester. This is an article that you can bring directly into your classroom. It was positive in a way because it written in forms of easy accessible paragraphs (which also takes from of the CRAP principles). I also found it most interesting to read of all the texts. I find that the ideas in this text help you to understand the concept of WAC. Bean was definitely one of the most important, as well as the one I got the most useful information out of. Bean's ideas were all about inter grading writing and active learning into the classroom, which is the core of WAC and also something that will help you to succeed as a successful teacher. He separates his ideas into Grammar, and what teachers in other disciplines need to know. Chapter 4 concentrates on Grammar is itself which is something I myself need help in, he makes it a point for us to realize that and to be able to teach and correct these errors you must be familiar with them yourself. It’s directed to all teachers and people who are looking to be educators. It incorporates so many positive ideas on WAC.

When it came to reading Gee he had made me see the ideas and concepts behind what WAC stands for I an un- conventional method. Gee explains that you can find literacy in video games. This is important because video games has been a strong component in a student’s life, and if used properly can teach literacy and will be useful in a classroom because students will learn to not be focused on learning. It also shows teachers that you can videogames into your classroom and have it be a learning experience. It also goes back to trying to engage your students by using a different approach on literacy.

In Peter Elbow’s “High Stakes and Low Stakes in Assigning and Responding to Writing” to be useful to me because it gave ideas on what assignments a teacher can use in the classroom to help students in writing. It shows the importance of both high and low stakes writing assignments, and really gave me insights on how low stakes writing can really help a student succeed. This is an article I can bring into my classroom to help my students succeed and to get them in higher levels of writing.