DQ 1
When teaching content area subjects, teachers are not technically responsible for teaching students the mechanics of writing, but they should still have high expectations of students’ written work. Consider the following:
Writing to learn is
not learning to write
.
As a special education teacher who may be assisting or teaching students in content areas, describe what this statement means to you and how you can support content area teachers in working with students with exceptionalities, including dyslexia. Include a discussion about how to maintain high expectations for student writing while not making it the focus of the assignment.
This statement brings up some great things that some teachers try to work on. To me when I am working with the girl, I work for I help her write and read but each day we do a journal entry and I have her write it down the best she can and then tell me what it says. To me writing to learn is something they do when it comes to vocabulary and spelling at a younger age, learning to write is when they are older and are learning to write sentences and structure a paragraph or essay. So having them write it and not worry about spelling is the best way to make sure they have the structure down and not worrying about if spelling is wrong that is one less thing they will have on their mind. These days there is so much technology that fixes the mistakes for them, everything is done on the computer and that will help
fix it. I will help other teachers by letting them know this and to read it and then work with the students one-on-one and talk through it with them like have them read it to you and then talk about the spelling after and let them know it is ok if they misspell a word or two wrong. When it comes to writing to learn it brings me to how I work with my youngest daughter we work on her spelling words she writes it to learn how to spell it.
