Growing up and going to school, we learned, or didn't learn, how to write. Our teachers most likely taught us to write the way they learned how to write, which means the teacher who'd been teaching for forty years taught it one way, the way since, according to her, cavemen had been her students. The teacher who'd been teaching for thirty years taught it the way he learned it while marching in protests against Vietnam and nukes. The teacher who'd been teaching for twenty years taught it with an eye to corporate America and a return to basics. The teacher who'd taught for ten years taught it the way she learned in the ever-consuming world of AP. And the new teacher? The new teacher just wants to make it to December and prays that her kids at least pass the state exams. What the new teacher has, though, is a world of choices, pedagogy philosophy on top of pedagogy philosophy. Which to follow and teach is the question that must be answered.
For this new teacher and the one who......
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