How Stephen King, English teacher, engaged students
- October 8, 2014
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / training-development
Before he was the king of all your nightmares, Stephen King was a high school teacher.
In addition to his slew of best-selling novels and short story collections, King's memoir "On Writing" is also a cleverly disguised writer's guide.
Jessica Lahey, a contributor to The Atlantic, is also a writing teacher. She interviewed King recently about how he kept his students engaged in the classroom.
...the best luck I ever had with high school students was teaching James Dickey’s long poem “Falling.” It’s about a stewardess who’s sucked out of a plane. They see at once that it’s an extended metaphor for life itself, from the cradle to the grave, and they like the rich language.As the Studer Institute's Pensacola Metro Report highlighted, student engagement is the key to improving the chances of a child's success in the classroom. So maybe the guy who hatched the creepiest prom night of all time has more than one high school lesson to share.
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