Dustin Roberts :: Blog :: Reading

I have been doing the assigned reading and so much of it is conceptual that I have a difficult time understanding how one would apply the information. I suppose that one has to begin someplace and it'll become clearer as I go along. I did like the box about effective teaching of Hamlet - getting students to think thematically before they even read the text and then seeing how their ideas relate to the text as they read is a wonderful idea. Many of the ideas would revolutionize effecting teaching in this country if the school boards ever let teachers have to flexibility to apply them, and not focusing so much attention on the FCAT.