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#IT STARTS WITH ONE THING PROFESSIONAL#
Showing relevance from students' perspective is similar to teachers experiencing professional development that is job-embedded. The answers "It's required curriculum," "You need it for the test," or "Because I say it's important" are intended to save time, but they only result in students giving lip service to the rest of instruction. Learners need to understand the value of the subject, vocabulary, and skills before they are willing to invest effort. They need a voice in why, what, and how learning experiences take shape. Placing students at the center of their own learning requires their collaboration. Allow Students to Share in Decision Making As the authority, teachers decide if they will "share" power by empowering learners. This first of my three posts on student-centered classrooms starts with the educator. Teachers must become comfortable with changing their leadership style from directive to consultative - from "Do as I say" to "Based on your needs, let's co-develop and implement a plan of action." Involving the learners in these decisions will place more work on them, which can be a good thing. Student-centered classrooms include students in planning, implementation, and assessments. The learners may not be allowed to leave the classroom when the instruction doesn't involve them, but there are many other ways that they check out. Effective professional development caters to what teachers think will help them become more effective. There are better things in life on which to spend your time.Achieving this goal means understanding what the participants value, and engaging them in those areas. So pull on your boots of confidence and stop worrying about using however. However may be used to begin a sentence, it can be used in conjunction with but, and you can place it pretty much anywhere you want in a sentence, so long as you do so with care. Silence Dogood (Benjamin Franklin), Letter to The New-England Courant, 14 May, 1722Īlthough there have been many restrictions proposed for how however is used, there has never been any strong agreement on them, and somehow we all appear to have muddled our way through communicating with each other using this word. However, as a Spectator I gain’d Admittance, and with the rest entred directly into the Temple. Charlotte Brontë, The Duke of Zamorna, 1838
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Oh, there is no accounting for the caprice of women. However, I was talking about Miss Moore. However, he still persisted in his care of him, and made him an offer of his Horse to carry him to the next Town, where he might have Conveniences for drying his Clothes, and getting some inward Refreshment. “However, I am sure James does not drink so much." This is a stylistic choice, more than anything else, as we have a considerable body of evidence of writers using however to begin sentences, frequently with the meaning of “nevertheless.” Often this is simply phrased as “do not begin sentences with however,” and other times the prohibition is slightly more nuanced (as was the position of Strunk & White), specifying that however should not begin a sentence when the meaning is “nevertheless,” “yet,” or “but.” "However" at the Start of a Sentence The main thing about however that many people seem to remember is that there was some sort of issue with putting it at the beginning of a sentence. We are not certain when the restrictions on however began, although an article in the Chicago Daily Tribune from 1920 includes a parenthetical statement of “a purist tells us that one should never begin a sentence with however,” so it has apparently been around for a century or more. Fowler helpfully arranges his quibbles about the use of however into four main categories, addressing the issues of when however comes too early in a sentence, too late, and whether or not but however is redundant (spoiler alert: he thinks it is). In case there is not enough there to make you pause every time you use however in the future, there’s more: in his 1926 A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, H. White, The Elements of Style, 1959 Is There a Rule Against "However"? Frank Vizetelly, A Desk-Book of Errors in English, 1920Īvoid starting a sentence with however when the meaning is “nevertheless.” Sheridan Baker, The Complete Stylist, 1966īut its use for how and ever as, “ However could he do it?” should be avoided as a vulgarism while its employment in the sense of “at any rate at all” … is provincial and archaic. Bury it between commas, or replace it with but or nevertheless. However, many famous writers-including Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë-have used the word this way. Usage experts have been advising people not to begin sentences with 'however' for at least a hundred years.