In the article "Shifting Perspectives about Grammar: Changing What and How We Teach", by Deborah Dean, she writes about her journey through the education world. She has always wanted to change the perspective on right or wrong grammar and she has attempted to do this throughout her education career. Many people, including educators have these right or wrong perspectives even if they aren't trying to. When she first began teaching she was following the rules and teaching in the right/wrong manner that she despised. As the district decided to change their policy, it allowed her more freedom to bring grammar into actual writing. She realized that it was actually beneficial for students to focus less on the concepts that they were learning as terms. If they wrote with the techniques that they were learning and observing without putting labels on them, it went much smoother. Dean eventually found that relating language to different genres that may be used in different areas of an individuals life was effective. The downfall of teaching in these "genres" was that some of the more detailed information seemed to slip by the students. Looking into the future Dean addresses that we much acknowledge that a very great amount of the writing that will be done will be on technology. This doesn't limit the amount of genres that students will be involved with because the internet has just about anything. She believes that educators now and previous educators are not well enough trained to be able to teach the students of the future. As future educators, we much better prepare for what is to come and broaden our perspectives to find new possibilities.
Dean makes some very good points. Not only can it be difficult to learn different terms, but also to use them in your writing without sounding in-genuine. [Conjunction pairs. Using the "not only" and "but also" in the same sentence works together to strengthen the point]. Teaching grammar alone, especially to young children, will only be taken so far in their daily life. I think that her techniques of incorporating grammar into something more will allow it to become something that they can actually use. The concept of teaching language in genres seems to be something that could help to better bring a student's education in the classroom to their daily life. I think that the education that we receive today to be a teacher is very different from what it has been in the past. However, this will continue to change as the future changes. [Conjunctive adverb. An independent clause stopped by a period followed by a conjunctive adverb, a comma, and another independent clause]. Students now and students in the future will live very different lives and Dean makes an excellent point when she writes that we much broaden our perspectives and prepare for this.
Dean makes some very good points. Not only can it be difficult to learn different terms, but also to use them in your writing without sounding in-genuine. [Conjunction pairs. Using the "not only" and "but also" in the same sentence works together to strengthen the point]. Teaching grammar alone, especially to young children, will only be taken so far in their daily life. I think that her techniques of incorporating grammar into something more will allow it to become something that they can actually use. The concept of teaching language in genres seems to be something that could help to better bring a student's education in the classroom to their daily life. I think that the education that we receive today to be a teacher is very different from what it has been in the past. However, this will continue to change as the future changes. [Conjunctive adverb. An independent clause stopped by a period followed by a conjunctive adverb, a comma, and another independent clause]. Students now and students in the future will live very different lives and Dean makes an excellent point when she writes that we much broaden our perspectives and prepare for this.
