Driving for personal

October 26, 2005

The Power of Personal.
I’ve been wondering how to push relevant content to my legal English group. I’m not satisfied with our school’s present offerings anymore. They are…irrelevant to what my students do and need.

So where should a guy go for content around law? Thanks to a post over at the gapingvoid I followed a really weird breadcrumb trail and fell into Business Week’s Blogspotting section. I ran into this post:Where are the good law blogs out there?

Amazing. Exciting.

Welcome to the headshift: English teachers - Any teacher for that matter - should no longer be married to their course books. We should be constantly asking ourselves: is this relevant? Is it speaking to my students where they are, and what they are doing? We should be brave when and if we realize that our content is no longer engaging our students, and change it.

Work toward standards and competencies, but don’t get tied down to something that doesn’t matter anymore!

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