I am well-educated, an experienced educator and Literacy is my business. I shy away from the deficit model when I consider my students' situations and prefer to focus on their strengths. I tell my learners "You see, you can do this, you just didn't know you could".
So why is it that I struggle so much with my literacies?
My writing appears to make sense to me when I am at the keyboard or pen. But when I review it, it becomes a strange, unwieldy, clumsy morass of badly-expressed phrases.
When I talk, eyes go vacant. This incredible, sophisticated lexicon that history has bestowed upon me, seems to attach itself like glutamates to my meanings, and fall as a sticky, incoherent mass.
My reading becomes a metaphorical form of open-cast mining. I scratch the surface for what I want from the text, discarding that which might detract from my prior notions, and I leave the original text's meanings unrecognisable to it's originator.
Clearly, I need to go back to basics.
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