Sharing Assignments
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"Throwing out more
traditional ways of teaching involves taking risks, experimenting
and opening up to the possibility of failure." |
The high school and college teachers who participated in the Looking
Both Ways (LBW) project brought an abundance of classroom knowledge and
technique to our sessions. One crucial and fertile part of our discussions
was sharing assignments. The ideas about classroom work that LBW teachers
described attested to their close attention to the urban students with
whom they worked, and how they adjusted pedagogical activities to meet
the needs of their specific populations. It was important for us to not
only trade creative ideas about what we do with our students but also
to explore why we chose to do specific activities and how that served
the composing skills of our students.
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