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So, You Want to Be an English Teacher?.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Clarkson, Emma Gill, Prue |
| Copyright Year | 2000 |
| Abstract | So you want to be an English teacher? At one time, that question suggested a career filled with instruction in reading and writing as well as grammar and vocabulary—in other words, traditional literacy. However, the integration of technology into education, in particular, secondary English education, challenges that notion. Today, it is not enough to be a “teacher of English”; instead, 21st-century English teachers must utilize and impart a number of literacies in their classrooms. Cindy Selfe explains this new definition of literacy(ies) as one that goes beyond reading and writing to include meaningful comprehension and utilization of technology; in other words, “digital literacy” (qtd. in Pianfetti 256). A problem is evident, though, in that studies by M.L. McNabb and others suggest that English teachers lack proper training in technological pedagogies (117) and, as a result, are often not as digitally literate as they should be. Furthermore, Evangeline Pianfetti writes that although “preservice teachers are the key to technology integration in the classroom, they lack the confidence and feel illprepared in their abilities to engage students with technology in a meaningful way” (256). Bob Reising and Carol Pope, in their article, “Technology in Language Arts Teacher Education,” note this problem as well and state that technology has added to “the existing conundrum that teacher educators face—the duality of teaching the content of courses as well as the implicit pedagogy or application of that content.” To put it simply, the demands of content acquisition coupled with traditional as well as emerging technological pedagogies can create a cumbersome “to do list” for pre-service teachers. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1097172.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
