[NLA] Re: Evidence-based practice in Adult Literacy Education

[AWilder106@aol.com]

Peter,

You are going WAAY beyond what I am thinking is central to our work here.

An artist builds on solid technique.  A person who works with clay has to 
know a lot about clay, about glazes, about firing temperatures.  

A person who teaches reading and writing should know quite a lot about 
phonics, syllables, the structure of English, language acquisition, and so 
on.  That person should also know a lot about crafting a lesson so many 
people with varied learning styles can gain from it.  Yes, I am leaving out a 
lot.

On this list, "science" often gets a bad rap, as though it is the tool of a 
tyranny.  When I was a teacher, we had a "general agreement"  (how valid?) 
that a teacher took 7 years to mature.  So a lot goes on in the classroom 
that only experience teaches.  Science?  Art?  "Real scientists" often do a 
lot more rummaging around in their mental attics than we give them credit 
for.  

Andrea

i still go at base for what works--just as a potter learns 'what works."  
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