Should I proofread your posts?
I just finished approving a bunch of my students’ blog postings and faced the same dilemma I always come up against. Do I proofread their postings or not? I have no issues correcting simple mistakes in which words are skipped, repeated, etc. If they got a chance to read it again, they’d catch it. Those aren’t mistakes kids tend to learn from. However, other mistakes–spelling mistakes, grammar mistakes, phrasing–all of these things are mistakes from which kids can learn lessons for the next time around, and which they won’t learn unless someone TELLS them they’re wrong. Also, I hate to put my kids’ writing out onto the great, big, public internet without looking perfect (because it makes BOTH of us look bad).
Let me know your thoughts. Now that I think about it, for an even broader perspective, I’m going to see what my kids think. I’ll post this as a blog posting for them to respond to and we’ll see if they can form some relevant opinions on the topic (and maybe even use the persuasive techniques we’ve been talking about).I just finished approving a bunch of your blog postings and faced the same dilemma I always come up against. Do I proofread your postings or not? I have no issues correcting simple mistakes in which words are skipped, repeated, etc. If you got a chance to read it again, you’d catch it. Those aren’t mistakes you tend to learn from. However, other mistakes–spelling mistakes, grammar mistakes, phrasing–all of these things are mistakes from which you can learn lessons for the next time around, and which you might not learn unless someone TELLS you you’re wrong. Also, I hate to put your writing out onto the great, big, public internet without looking perfect (because it makes BOTH of us look bad).
On the other hand, if I put it out there WITH the mistakes, maybe it’s teaching you a lesson to proofread you own work closer before submitting it, and/or that you should have someone else read it before submission.
Teachers tend to have strong (and very opposite) opinions on this topic, so it’s bit pointless to discuss this with them, unfortunately. This posting is an attempt to get some valuable outsider opinions about this topic Let me know your thoughts. Let’s see if you can form some relevant opinions on the topic (and maybe even use the persuasive techniques we’ve been talking about)!
December 1st, 2009 at 5:13 pm
i think it true what are saying because it does make us look bad. i hope i can do better with in my writing.
December 1st, 2009 at 5:14 pm
I think its cool for you too check our mistakes, and it is also awsome for you to approve our blog post.well thats my opinion.
December 1st, 2009 at 5:16 pm
You should not proof read ours. If we don’t catch it someone who is commenting it will probably.
December 1st, 2009 at 5:20 pm
I also think its cool you check our mistakes but we should also be able to do it our selfs
December 1st, 2009 at 5:22 pm
In my opinion, I think that you shouldn’t proof read or correct our mistakes in our stories. I know that some teachers have different opinions and thats okay but I think that every body could have their own opinion. I also think that it could help us improve our stories. I also think that if it were me I wouldn’t correct their stories and let them have some one reread their stories. Thats is my opinion over that topic.
December 23rd, 2009 at 11:42 am
You could publish it and then assign students to proof it and resubmit for a grade. My principal would die if I didn’t proof, though.