When teachers are their own worst enemies
First is a post by Mark Pennington, an educational author of teaching resources to differentiate instruction in the fields of reading and English-language arts: "Teaching Grammar and Mechanics," "Teaching Essay Strategies," "Teaching Reading Strategies," and "Teaching Spelling and Vocabulary." Here he writes about how teachers unwittingly helped create the accountability movement that is now choking them. This appeared on his Pennington Publishing Blog. Then follows a response by Maja Wilson, who taught high school English, adult basic education, ESL, and alternative middle and high school in Michigan’s public schools for 10 years and is currently a teacher educator at the University of Maine. She wrote on this blog recently about teachers, and responds to Pennington in the context of that post, called "First blame the teachers, then the parents." By Mark Pennington A recent discussion on my favorite site, the English Companion Ning, made me take a critical look at