"[This book] serves as a springboard for diversity and creativity
in the classroom . . . [It] illustrates the fact that we as
teachers have the power and potential to make our own courses, and
thereby, have the ability to meet the various needs of our diverse
students. "
- Alabama English
"A Very Good Place to Start," a collection of articles by
members of the Phillips Andover English department, demonstrates
how effective an English department can be if individual teachers
are willing to take full responsibility for setting up their
courses (often with considerable input from students) and are also
committed to sharing what they're doing and how it's working.
Instead of following a departmental curriculum, complete with sets
of required texts, individual teachers are free to try new
techniques and new materials geared to a particular class. The
approach encourages a constant interchange of ideas and experiences
among department members, to everyone's professional advantage.
When the editor invited his colleagues to contribute to a
collection of essays, he had no intention of trying to put together
a book. He simply wanted to photocopy the essays and spread them
around the department, hoping to encourage others to join in.
During the course of the writing, the teachers found themselves
learning all kinds of things from each other. Further, the act of
writing helped some of them understand what they had been doing for
years. The book is a plus, but for the contributors the process of
writing the essays, discussing them, finding striking parallels and
differences among their basic attitudes about teaching and learning
was reward enough.
In many, respects, "A Very Good Place toStart" is an invitation
to teachers in English departments to put together their own
collection. The book is an excellent tool for a teachers workshop,
because the essays are open-ended, inviting variations on the
techniques and as an end in itself. Rather, its a means by which
every department can set its own course.
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