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Respect, Resistance, and Reality
Slowly, over the years, because I was willing to learn, my students taught me a new set of three R’s—Respect, Resistance and Reality. First, Respect. Respect for them, and for every decision they took,...
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Re: Where is the Teacher?
I got an e-mail from Dave, who attended my workshop last week on “Putting Learners in the Driver’s Seat.” He asked, “If the learner is in the driver’s seat, where is the teacher?” I’m going to answer...
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Poster: Literacy in the World
I don’t do international literacy work, but I’m always aware that many adults with low literacy in Canada live in third world conditions. Here is a great graphic from the United Nations. by UNRIC....
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Why Is Writing So Hard? Reason #10
Writing is hard because it takes you places in your heart that you have spent a lot of energy trying to avoid. It’s healing for the same reason. My Parents I was upset at Dr. S. for giving my late dad...
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Monday Motivator
Reblogged from ABE United: Today felt like a picture day and I have been saving this one for a while. Enjoy! Read more… 9 more words So love this picture! A fresh statement of an old idea, and a...
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The Grammar Hatchet
Actually me, in front, 70s demonstration, with Nancy RosenbergSorry, can’t remember where this came from. I had a taste, once, of someone using grammar to do a hatchet job on something that was full of...
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The Launch
The launch is a big day in the life of any book. It is the day when the art made out of life goes out into the world to see what its reception will be. Mistaken Identity started as a small project to...
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Students Celebrate Their Supporters
Students’ writing improves when they write for an audience. When you find them an audience that is close to home and a situation that is meaningful, there are many reasons for them to get the writing...
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Your Students Should Blog–
Giving students a blog provides an instant audience, and a shift in identity for the blogger. A blogger looks at life with a writer’s eye and awareness of the audience; a blog gives its author a chance...
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Reading from Life
“What reading materials are appropriate for adult literacy students?” Kat posted this question on my blog the other day, and went on to say, “I’m teaching my first teenage reading student now, and...
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Who’s in Charge Here?
Arriving Saltspring Islandphoto credit: irfy via photopin cc I was just one of the crowd of people on the trip—old and young, fat and thin, First Nations and white people, male and female. We were off...
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Power Share
Here’s another story about sharing power with adult literacy students, to go with the one I posted last week called “Who’s in Charge Here?” A Big Pot of Money At the Reading and Writing Centre we had a...
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Back to Basics
A year ago today I began writing this blog, with the goal of sharing some of the things I’ve learned about teaching adult literacy and numeracy. On this anniversary, I’m re-playing my first post–still...
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