Research as Authentic Inquiry.

“Today, many teachers across the curriculum are developing creative strategies to make teaching the research paper more relevant.”

I find that developing new strategies and finding new ways to reach out to and interact with our students is of the utmost importance. A trend I am noticing is the when young people are looking for information on a subject they go to the internet, and find a video that teaches them in a very general, and concise, way. These videos normally relate the subject to something the viewer who deal with in everyday life. I believe this relation of the subject is how we will make teaching the research paper more relevant.   

“Oral Explaining – with both students and teachers participating – develops reasoning skills that support reading and writing practices across the disciplines.”

When I think back on my years in school I always remember asking a question that us students would have an answer to, but the teachers would always say “Well yes, but that’s not the answer I’m looking for.” I think that it is this lack of clarity on the educator’s part, and their inability to maintain a running dialogue with their students.  

“Similarly, many young people find the preoccupation of the adult world to be remote, disconnected from their lives, and incomprehensible.”

And lastly we have to remember that our students are growing up in a very different world than we did. What is important to us isn’t exactly what is important to them, and vice versa. But it is imperative that as educators we find a common ground with our student.