Subscribe:
RSS feed
Resources for and reflections on teaching high school media.
Browsing All posts tagged under »James Moffett«
On Error
Years ago, I picked up James Moffett’s Teaching the Universe of Discourse (1968), and it changed the way I taught writing–and, well, pretty much everything. Here, in a favorite passage of mine, Moffett discusses the importance of trial-and-error learning. Now, trial and error sounds to many people like a haphazard, time-consuming business, a random behavior […]
Structural Curriculum: On Context and “Conceptual Options”
July 8, 2012
Like many teachers, I’m spending a good part of summer rethinking my class–how I’ve organized it, how I announce and reinforce my emphases, all that stuff. I’ve been reading a lot. Taking notes. Inventing fake course outlines, and trying to imagine the bigger picture of my class. In short, I’m trying to find a way […]
HS Video Teacher 
August 4, 2013
0