I am not exactly sure how I want to tackle this project, but I do want to start with the question: Why do we teachers teach grammar and is it important to continue doing so? Through my years here at Fredonia, getting ready to be a professional teacher, it has really occurred to me that they way I learned grammar through my younger schooling, and the way grammar is sometimes taught today in schools, may not be the best way of approaching teaching grammar or grammar usage. In fact, it might not be important at all to stress grammar like some educators do. I have begun to believe that grammar usage isn’t what’s important while looking at a students writing but rather that what the student has to say is. So, as I begin my professional career I would like to gather opinions for and against this teaching grammar debate, and then perhaps suggest a new and innovative way to teach grammar in my own classroom some day by creating a lesson plan. I am going to start by interviewing several professors and teachers to begin this conversation and then I plan on consulting some more academic texts sources, which would offer more insight. After I get the information I need, I plan on writing a short mini lesson, which I would be able to use in my own classroom someday.
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