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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher here. The issue is the higher ups telling teachers how to structure their day. We are told how much time should be allotted. Teachers have no autonomy in the classroom anymore. [/quote]

Amen. Teachers would love to have the time and resources to teach this. [/quote]

As long as they don't have to bring any work home to check. The few writing assignments my kids had to do maybe had once sentence of feedback by most teachers if anything. Teacher work doesn't include grading papers at home anymore like all teachers used to do, so this is what they mean folks. They want time to do this during the school day including both teaching and grading.[/quote]

I think a lot comes down to time allotted again. When I first started teaching we didn’t have a separate writing block. It was very difficult to trach when it was shared with our reading block. The past few years we bow have a separate block and it has been wonderful. Most schools use a workshop model approach so feedback is given during the writing process. I still do give feedback with the published piece but there is a lot of conferencing happening. This is why teachers need to make their own schedules. [/quote]

The time is still the same though. So what's different? Couldn't any teacher just have a time separation if they wanted to between these two subjects before? What's different is politics. There used to be more oversight. The idea now is that being creative is more important than being accurate which  drives what the kids focus on in writing and grammar and sentence structure is left behind. Do you agree that the new method of teaching writing is not to correct and instead encourage which could be politically and technology motivated? That with fewer people coming in speaking English, English language standards have been downplayed? That teachers tend to reduce writing instruction because of the amount of time it takes constantly telling the public how many new requirements they have on their plate, that teachers teach less writing in elementary because the 5th grade SOL was removed? Teachers teaching less writing saying that technology doesn't require so much knowledge of it anymore. There is no oversight on the teachers in terms of a state or local mandate for these standards and without the SOL, you can have a principal and teacher who just don't care or who at least favor other items over grammar and writing.[/quote]

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