Need For English Teachers Research Articles

The Writing Lab: Using the Bureaucracy to Teach

Institute, the uniqueness of this course comes from a professional educator working with a professional police officer to come up with a curriculum that builds a mean ingful writing program for police officers and recruits. Thus, it has been my experience that the English teacher need not be an ivory tower academician. The community, the world of work, is ready to acknowledge the expertise of the writing teacher and to employ it to the advantage of both the world of work and the reality of schooling. After such an experience, teachers of writing will be able to bring to the classroom not only the expertise of their own discipline, but the security of knowing that their method of teaching and objectives are relevant to the disciplines into which their students will walk prepared.

What Does Research in Reading Reveal--About Reading and the Teacher of English?

for the way we define English determines the way we prepare teachers of English. Our present dilemma-the need for English teachers to teach reading as well as the skills necessary to read literature, and the lack of preparation for this taskhas a curious history. Examining, even cursorily, the sources of this predicament can be revealing and instructive. The following brief look at the academic ancestry of today's English teacher may help clarify how he acquired his many kin and why he does so many different things, as well as illuminate his Topsylike growth. In its relatively short history, English in our secondary school has changed its character many times, and more importantly, it continues to change in response to diverse pressures and influences. Among these, one of the most important has been the shifting emphases within college and university departments of English. According to Parker (24), speaking to the Association of Departments of English,