Keeslers Writing World

I agree with Erin on her points about grammar. I really hate grammar and am affraid of teaching it because I also feel that I don't know enough about it. I think that Grand Valley should definitely require those going into the teaching field to take more classes that teach you about grammar. I know that I can take a text book and teach what the text book says about it, but I really don't think that thats how it should work. If your going to teach something then you should really know it and not just teach what a book says. I do believe that grammar shouldn't be as prescriptivly taught as it is in many classrooms. I think it's a huge reason that many students don't like english and therefore never really learn as much about writing as they should. I do still think that we need to have certain guidelines in english for writing though. I just need to know more about those guidelines and how to use them. I also think that many of us don't know grammar as well as we should because it's often taught to us all at once early on and not spread out or reemphasized throughout our education so we lose rules here and there. We as teachers should be stressing and teaching the importance of grammar throughout the various levels of the school systems. I think that by doing this it would help students know and effectively use grammar properly.