English Class – WIIFM?
I remember asking my math teacher in high school, “Why do I need to learn trigonometry? I’m never going to use it in my career.”
Here I am, 18 years after graduating high school and have yet to use trig! I get it – students, especially adult learners, want to know what we are using class time to teach is going to be useful to them outside of class.
When I first started teaching English class at the college level, I was baffled at how many students would ask why they had to be taking English.
In this post I share my list of WIIFM when assigning an essay in my College Communications class
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