Elementary education fits into all of Carter’s metagenres, it is almost like it is its own metagenre. It fits into problem solving because you need to be able to solve issues to be a teacher. You cannot go into a classroom and not expect random issues to come about and if you cannot cope with them or change plans to solve the issue, why be a teacher? It also fits into empirical inquiry because in order to become a teacher you have to observe classes and actually help out teachers and get involved. This gives you lots of ‘data’ on different learning and teaching styles. It also fits into the category of calling for research from sources because if you are in the class room you are probably going to have students with special needs and learning disabilities and you will need to learn more about them so you know how to teach them. Another metagenre is calling for performance, which relates to what you teach and what lessons you absorb. Those lessons could be ones you teach, ones you learn in school, or even lessons you learn from kids in the classes you teach. Carter should reconsider his four metagenres because teaching seems to be its own, or like a genre of all the four.

Boyer asks three questions about wether a major is “enriched.” Those questions are “what is the history and tradition of the field? What are the social and economic implications to be understood? What are the ethical and moral issues to be confronted?” Teaching can answer all of these. Education has classes for all of these questions. For the ethical and moral issues one of the classes is diversity in schools (find description.) The courses the foundations of literary development and instruction(examples!), and literacy research based instructional methods answer the question of what is the history and the traditions. And the last question about the social and economic implications have classes like the exploring teachings course which is where you go to a school and work in the classroom with the teacher and get to see different kids and learning styles up close and actually interact with them.