Well, today we began our journey into the teaching of composition in Culham's work. All of these essays about kitties, summer vacation, pizza, and kidneys kind of make my skin crawl, but the foundations of this particular pedagogy seem sound. I'm definately of the camp that students who struggle with the particulars of standard, academic English can benefit from the focus on content.
My questions are this: rubrics? Will all rubrics look the same after adopting this program?
The Doran chapters were quite good. I especially like the questionnaire on page fifty, although the real logistical problem is getting that out to forty students and making a connection on that level.
Overall, my response to these readings is that we are certainly capable of making writing a more student-centered activity. The problem I see is making that step from composition to analysis of literature.
My connection or resource link for this week isn't all that exciting. It's Apple's Itunes U, which has a great many free downloads relating to education!
Here is the link: http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu/
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I agree about the irritating writing topics in the Culham chapters. I commented on this in my blog posting this week as well. To offer a light of hope, I noticed that there are writing samples from high school students in the upcoming chapters. I did not look closely enough to read what they are about; I was mostly interested in finding out if I was going to have to read about "Cat/Dog" (p. 42) for the rest of the book. Here's to hoping!
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