Elizabeth Grant

Elizabeth Grant

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I teach in a practical nursing program and my students are not required to have any English classes (other than having passed HS or GED and an entrance exam). Some of them have horrible writing skills, but re-teaching English is not in our class, nor do I have time to teach them grammar, spelling, and sentence structure. It is a shame that they don't learn or retain this from high school education.
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I don't teach it anymore, but I used to teach the very first class of the nursing program. I would tell them that they were standing in a dark room holding a match. In a few days they would start to understand a few things, but it would be like trying to see the corners of the ceiling by match light. Each class they would get a progressively bigger light, candle-light, flashlight, ect. I told them at no point would they ever be in a room where the light showed everything, because no one can know everything. So, at times… >>>

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