Teaching English, How To.... by Raymond Stopper
Review of essential Ideas in the Book (1-5)
1. The purpose of schooling is to prepare students for life-long learning.
2. Goals for teaching English: learn how to learn; learn how to think; learn how to communicate; learn how to solve problems; learn to interpret, personalize and criticize literary works.
3. Active learning: Students are most frequently involved in learning activities when they know why they are learning.
4. Independent study: Students should engage in independent study, i.e., research , as individuals or in groups, in a major project in every English course. The project should be an "I-Search," Ken Macrorie's suggestion that students explore a topic about which they really want to learn.
5. Professional Research. Reading professional research raises questions and suggests answers. Teachers can learn much about teaching by conducting their own research in their own classrooms. I suggest that people in English education NOT use research to support a political point of view about the teaching of English without being ready to identify clearly the research, its findings and limitations.
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