Blog #6

I still believe in the Store House Model and the Garret Model as my writing center philosophies. There are many ways to look at these models, but the way I understand them is that they work as a team. In the Store House Model, there needs to be a teacher that understands what the formula means in order to help the student figure out how to solve the problem. Therefore there is a right way to go about solving problems, and the way students understand this depends on their life experiences. This is where the Garret Model comes in. By the student trying to understand a certain formula, they will use their brains, which has been composed of all of the information they have learned up to this point. When the student goes through the process of learning a specific solution, they will dig into their "inner understanding" of the issue, and use thier past knowledge to try and figure out how to solve the problem. They will be learning the problem by useing the formula the teacher gives them, as well as finding their own methods to solving that problem with the formula they have just learned.