The writer's brain-No longer a Right-Winged movement
It seems that our society likes black and white photography-good guy vs bad guy, right vs wrong... is there ever a bad guy with good intentions? With our dualistic media as a teacher, it doesn't surprise me that we've tried to categorize students into lefties and righties-writers and mathematicians. There are three big problems with this dichotomy: 1. Categorizing students as mathematicians may limit their writing ability, and vise versa (self-fulfilling prophecy. 2. According to gender stereotypes, masculine individuals perform better in math-this may limit the performance of gifted feminine individuals in the subject, and force them into writing, where they are in fact less talented 3. There are many more categories-more comes into play than just left and right (we should consider this in politics, too), and 4. Concentrating on your "Gifted" side limits your overall thought processing. First things first-as with many preconceptions, our students enter our classroom...