{"id":7086,"date":"2022-08-27T04:38:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T04:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7086"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:49","slug":"revising-my-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7086","title":{"rendered":"REVISING MY TEACHING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I were to step back into a high school English classroom, I would make significant changes to my teaching on writing.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First, my definition of strong writing would be different.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Strong writing would be clear and to the point.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would make sure students knew how to identify adverbs &#8211; so they could eliminate them from their writing.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would teach them to give serious thought to who their audience is, knowing that their audience is less rational than they think.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(And much more emotional than they imagine.)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would de-emphasize &#8220;academic writing&#8221; and practice more real-world writing.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would teach students how to write an email that cannot be misunderstood &#8230; and then how to respond when their audience misunderstands it anyway.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would teach the &#8220;rules&#8221;. Test over the rules. Then teach how and when and why to break the rules.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I would show them the beauty of revision.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One thing might remain the same: me being just one step ahead of my students.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I were to step back into a high school English classroom, I would make significant changes to my teaching on writing. First, my definition of strong writing would be different.\u00a0 Strong writing would be clear and to the point. I would make sure students knew how to identify adverbs &#8211; so they could eliminate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7087,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions\/7087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}