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UnTeaching: A Writing Teacher's Odyssey
The odyssey of one writing teacher from traditional methods of teaching college composition, including marking papers and grading students, to "unteaching," a reconsideration of how we learn, and discussion of the changes that can bring about in how we teach. The book is part memoir, part research, part anecdote, part analysis. It examines how we learn to read and write and swim, and highlights the best practices available for teaching those behaviors. Master teachers are offered as models, and swimming lessons scrutinized for what they reveal about learning to write. The author's personal experiences, struggles and failures as both a writing and swimming teacher reveal what is wrong with contemporary approaches, and from those experiences the author assembles a varied collection of unusual, non-traditional, anti-institutional methods collectively called "Unteaching."
390 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 17, 2017
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March 2, 2019
Must read!
An extraordinary read. A must for every writer, teacher, learner. Even if you disagree with something like eliminating grades, you will find the discussion opening doors. What might seem radical, seems obvious... Every chapter is a journey into one's own growth. How do we learn: how do we write?
An extraordinary read. A must for every writer, teacher, learner. Even if you disagree with something like eliminating grades, you will find the discussion opening doors. What might seem radical, seems obvious... Every chapter is a journey into one's own growth. How do we learn: how do we write?
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