Teaching Grammar During Writing

Many people in the world still think that doing the "drill and kill" methods of grammar is the way that students learn grammar best. I know from my own person experience that this is not the case. Growing up I had many teachers who implemented this method and I remember working in the work on the problems having to do with past participles, verbs, and nouns. I don't remember anything I learned in those types of classes. I still make mistakes with grammar in my papers and those "drill and kill" methods never helped me correct my writing. 

Reading "Teaching Grammar in the Context of Writing" by Constance Weaver showed that teaching grammar when it is relevant to writing serves a more practical use than then reading a text book and working on sentences in the book that need their grammar corrected. I want to implement this kind of teaching in my future classroom because it will be relevant to my students and it is the best way they will learn the most grammar the can. I do think that I may have to deal with a lot of parents who disagree with this methods, but I think we need to educate them to the reality of how well it really works. 

There is an article in The Atlantic that talks more about the idea that teaching students grammar in "drill and kill" methods can actually hinder their ability to learn grammar. So I think all teachers and district should move away from these methods but it is hard to determine if they really will. There are many books written to help teachers implement the new ways of teaching grammar that will help guide them through it. Hopefully educators will begin to see the benefits of teaching grammar through writing and it will take the place of these "drill and kill" methods.