I was in an English classroom over spring break and had to conduct a lesson on grammar. It took all I could to tell the teacher that this will not really benefit the students at all and it is just a waste of classtime. I handed out a paper on noun and verb agreement and twenty minutes later, I went over the worksheet. The lesson was over after that...never to be touched on again! Ughh, I was utterly disappointed. I believe next time I will bring in Noden's textbook and show her what we are learning! :) ....((I also did DOL's all week with the class.))
Teaching grammar in isolation to writing has been found again and again to have little if any positive effect on students' writing. I cannot believe that teachers' today are not seeing this in their own classrooms! I wonder if they just do not care about this statistic or if they do not want to change up their lesson plan. I really, really want to have an answer for this question. It has really been bothering me for sometime now. I cannot believe the evidence that Noden provides and actually going into the classroom and visually being able to experience grammar and writing being seperated is crazy. I could not help but get frustrated over the lesson I was "teaching". The kids were obviously not learning anything!
"Good writing is not produced by mere grammar study!" I love this quote, and I am sure I have posted it in several blogs, but I believe it to be 100% true.
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