Tuesday, November 28, 2006

what do you know about Handwriting?

Besides the fact that it is reportedly the most unimportant thing in the world?

So i'm thinking about teaching @ to write. Yeah, he's two but when we're somewhere else and he is of a handrwriting age I'll be on my own. So if you are a teacher, took a teaching degree but then decided not to use it, started a teaching degree and then jumped ship in the middle/ end of the program, thought about teaching but scoffed at the idea (is that everyone) tell me what you know about teaching handwriting, or printing, whatever they call the thing where you use a pencil and lined paper. Are there different schools of thought or curriculum (I seem to remember there is)? Is one more preferable to another? What would help @ fit back into US schools should he ever attend one?

Discuss

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Don't you think it would be of greater advantage for him to learn how to text message? Take a good Myspace self-pic? Brood?

Steph H. said...

Aidan's preschool used these "worksheets" that the letters had dots at certain points of the letter, and the children made the letter by connecting the dots. And then repeating the "shape" they had made. I could show you those sometime. I think i kept all 26 of them. And it seemed to work.

Jake T said...

that whole thing about teaching, that's not everybody. That's just everybody at Eastern.