I Don't Remember What The Prompt Is

Because I don't remember what the prompt was, I will write and elaborate upon the discussion we had in class about others' blogs from the last reading.

In the first blog, the writer states that he/she wants an open classroom with less emphasis on grammar and punctuation. He/she says that a teacher can't be a stickler for details if he/she wants his/her students to be comfortable with writing. I disagree, because I think that students can only be truly comfortable with writing once they can implement most of the rules. A classroom can still be an open classroom even though the teacher is a "stickler" for details. How are students supposed to become better writers if the teacher doesn't enforce grammatical rules?

An open classroom, to me, means a student-centered class. One that is focused on group discussions, projects and working together, rather than a lectured class. In the tenth grade, I had a teacher who was an extreme "stickler" for grammatical errors. It was extremely difficult to receive an 100 on any work. However, it was a student-centered class with lots of discussions and partnered work. We did many assignments, in groups, that were based upon learning grammar and in-depth sentence structure. So, even though she was hard to please, students were still motivated to share their work and participate.

A classroom that is focused on having students work together to come to a conclusion about something helps students learn better than any sort of lecture they would be given by a teacher. Almost all people are hands-on learners, meaning people learn through experience and making mistakes. Therefore, teachers need to think of new, inventive ways to keep students learning. Teachers should try to avoid repeating assignments because then students become accustomed to that type of activity, and cease to learn from it. Every lesson must be different than the last, so that students learn new things through new ways of thinking.