Standing Ovation: Prompt #2

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Prompt #2

It is evident that schools how they are today are not working. In one way, or many, schools need to be changed in a way that will let students explore the pathway they want to continue for their life or different pathways than we see now. One major problem with schools, is the education policies in place, No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is a system that has been in place since 2002 and has not ever worked. The name, misleading, because it does exactly what is says it’s not going to do, leave children behind. Not only is NCLB bad, but the way schools are set up is bad too. Not only does it ruin creativity, it is educating children in ways that are not right for every child. Everyone learns differently and should be able to explore what is best for them, through creativity.
One way to change schools without completely changing them would be to let students have more independent study classes, maybe even require each student to do an independent student class each year to be able to be creative and learn on their own in ways they wouldn’t be able to with a teacher just lecturing them all day, every day. Students would be able to explore things deeper and what they actually wanted instead of just reading from text books and learning what they need to in order to graduate. All students would be able to benefit from this idea. It would be a way for schools to let students be more creative without taking out the whole entire structure of schools.
Schools would not have to fully change for students to be more creative. They would just have to be more lenient and let students have more freedom. This is something that is realistic and can be done.

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Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Standing Ovation”! The title of this blog refers to the audience of active readers we are creating by sharing our academic writing for Eng 100 with a larger group of students, instructors, academics, and just about anybody who chooses to follow our blog! When you write and post your reader responses here (and, later, as you write your essays for the course), I encourage you to use this audience to conceptualize who you are writing for and, most important, how to communicate your ideas so that this group of academic readers and writers can easily follow your line of thinking. Think about it this way: What do you need to explain and articulate in order for the other bloggers to understand your response to the essays we’ve read in class? What does your audience need to know about those essays and the authors who wrote them? And how can you show your readers, in writing, which ideas you add to these “conversations” that take place in the texts we study?
As students of Eng 100, you will use this blog to begin conversations with other academic writers on campus (students and instructors alike). We become active readers of each other’s writing when we comment on posts here. And, best of all, we are using this space to share ideas! I encourage you to use this blog to further think through the topics and writing strategies you will be introduced to this quarter. As always, be sure to give credit to those people whose ideas you borrow for your own thinking and writing (you should do this in the blog by commenting on their post, but you will also be required to cite what you borrow from your peers/instructors if and when it winds up in your essays. More details on that later).
Finally, keep in mind that writing to and for this audience is a good way to prepare for the panel of readers (faculty at WCC) who will be reading and assessing your writing portfolio at the end of the quarter. I hope that as a large group of active readers, we can better prepare each other for this experience. But, in the meantime, let’s have fun with it!