Blog #10 for 4/16 - Oscar

 As someone who has zero experience when it comes to teaching, I found chapter 15 from the Lindemann text to be so eye-opening and so useful. It has so much important and relevant information that allowed me to see what I would be doing in the future as an educator and how to do it. I really liked the way Lindemann showed ways to structure our lessons plans and our syllabus. I enjoyed how they included outlines and templates to help us see what is the "correct" way to do this. There is so much that goes into developing, creating, planning, and teaching a writing course. 

I also found chapter 16 to be very important especially for todays age. I can't even begin to think how stressful and difficult it was for current teachers to fully transition to online courses. I feel like that requires even more work to a certain extent and makes the job quite harder. Despite it being and seeing quite difficult, I think I would also be interested in teaching an online class in the future. It would be an experience that would strengthen my experience and character. What is so amazing is that now with all these sites and programs, connecting with peers and teachers is easier. We have discussion boards, blogs, listservs, etc that all allow us to have direct communication and connect with one another. Then,  zoom allows us to meet at the same time and have that "feel" that we are actually in a class. I also feel that there is a common misconception that online courses especially writing courses aren't as "good" or successful because students have access to the internet to search things up or to edit their mistakes. I actually think this is a good thing because it allows the students to not worry about the spelling errors or grammar and only focus on the ideas and messages they are trying to get across on their paper.


Overall, I found these two chapters to be very relevant and they are definitely chapters I see myself coming back and rereading once I become a teacher. They offer such informative and useful information. 

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