It was really helpful the comment about Dr Kari James and the Handwriting as a tool we should integrate as part of our instructional planning. I strongly agree that Handwriting helps students to memorize material which absolutely helps the student to really understand the topic as well as to get better grades; I have been one of those type of students who really have gotten the benefit from the writing and rewriting of what I want to memorize.
But I have a concern, which will be the way I could help a student to develop this skill if the handwriting is not good or very poor. If you barely can understand his or her handwriting, How could I stop myself as a Teacher or Instructor to not request this student to turn in typed homework instead of the poor handwriting, which will make me give him/her worse grades.
I would like to hear ideas of how I can help him to develop the handwriting skill without constantly give him bad grades until he develops the good handwriting if ever he did.
The only idea it comes out to me is asking him to hand in his homework in both ways: the typing HW into a computer(for me to give him better grades) and the Handwriting HW( for him to develop the skill as well as helping him to retaining course content at a higher level). Would it be ethic as well as attached to Florida Laws?
