The assignment: In this week's blog post, students will explain how they will promote moral development within their classroom. Students will explain why should blogging be helpful for an English class?
The reply:
Morals have to do with an action being right or wrong. In order to teach morality and enhance the moral development of my future students, I must set up classroom rules that require moral behavior. These rules should be fair in their creation and execution; everyone needs to be held to the same standards. They should reinforce positive behaviors and seek to eliminate negative or amoral ones. Rules of this nature involve respects for people and property, as well as responsible behaviors.
When students follow the rules and buy into the reason behind the rules, they help one another follow them as well. When students have to think about classroom rules, they also think about the reason behind the rules and they begin to use those reasons to inform their decision-making. As students learn to apply classroom morality to the real world, they form an understanding of the overall concepts of morality and justice. The reason for promoting moral development in schools is to train children to grow up to be morally grounded adults. Children who learn to follow rules in the school will eventually follow similar rules in society.
After students get the moral concept of the reasoning behind following the classroom, students are still curious to why must they blog in Literature rather than make use of the blank paper.
Why blog...
While literary studies might seem to be a very easy task, it is in fact a conversation. Of course, one is always in "conversation" with the text being examined, but a good writer is also in a conversation with others writing about the same text. When blogging students broaden their audience: suddenly their classmates can be in conversations with them; even when we're not in the classroom. Therefore, blogging is a place for individuals to practice writing. From my own experience, I found out that the best way to improve one's writing is to practice and allow others to share thoughtful and meaningful writing to help improve their views on certain interests and ideas.
This is a very interesting idea! I like the concept of morality. I think it is important for future educators to know how they will instill moral behavior in their classrooms.
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