I was home earlier today, and I read the article about Process Pedagogy in our text--I'm blanking on the author's name; the book is at home in Plainfield--and he had me SO EXCITED about teaching students the process way, the way that W131 at IUPUI is set up to be taught. And I was SO EXCITED to go to class and teach my students how to do a freewrite, and how to talk about it afterward.
And then, reality. Why are students so suspicious of being allowed to write freely and to doubt what comes out? And why are they interested in tying up their belief systems so quickly, and so tritely, with nary a thought otherwise?
I love the idea of process pedagogy, but I don't know how quickly I can get my students to believe in it. It almost feels like they don't think I'm for real, like this is a bunch of bunk I'm trying to get them to believe, and they're sitting there thinking, "She's nuts. She's just a grad student so...we don't trust her."
I just needed to get that off my chest. My first group today made me so mad today by reading only the first seven or so pages of the first chapter of _Hunger of Memory_, stopping when they got to small number 2 within the chapter, despite the fact that the chapter heading, Aria, remained for many pages to follow.
ARE YOU SERIOUS?
I'll have a more thoughtful post on process pedagogy later. I just had a bad day at the office and wanted to unload. Steve, don't tell Scott Weeden to fire me.
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