Broaken: the way this English teacher spelled broken on the white board this week. Embarassing? Not really. Yes, but no. I am almost incapable of being embarrassed anymore. But yeah, very embarrasing for an English teacher. It happens on occasion. Here is the deal. I am a visual learner and learned to spell by reading. So now that I am a teacher I read all sorts of awful spelling and I absorb a little bit of it on occassion - but just momentarily. I catch myself, but gosh knows what my spelling will be like in 30 years! Here is an example of what I read this week while reading student journals. Look at all of the creative spellings this one 10th grade student had for the word Journal:
Jernal
Jurnoh
Jranal
Jurranol
Juronl
Save me now. i think I need a new job before the kids think spelling is not important because even their English teacher cannot spell (only on occassion, but always when I am on the spot!)
4 comments:
Start doing spelling tests!
I've got you beat. I once wrote truk instead of truck. Wow. Of course the students have not let me live that one down. I have a sign behind my desk that says TRUK: EPIC FAIL, MRS. REESE. I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one =-)
My husband says all of the attempts to spell "journal" look like they could be "Utah names"!
Oh man, that is classic. I'm thinking of dedicating one of my un-used white boards to bad spelling examples I come across. Too mean?
And yes, Melodie. Utahns have no respect for basic phonetics.
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