Bad Writer
(Re)Teach
English - October 24, 2019 14:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsSelf-Improvement Education How To student equity equity gaps teaching learning community college bruce hoskins Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this episode, I speak about two specific events in high school that socialized me to believe that I was a bad writer. Later at UCSD, a white teacher helped to undo much of that trauma by grading me on content rather than grammar and/or regurgitation.
Teaching takeaways:
1) Introduce historically-marginalized authors early and often
2) Create low-stakes writing opportunities to encourage students to write freely
3) Show appreciation when students express themselves in culturally and/or emotionally profound ways