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Skip Ahead (Ch.4-Making It Explicit)
Continuing our “Student Teacher Saga” we find our subjects realizing that they are”not someone who is part of the classroom.” The children knew more about the culture and one of the big challenges would be to learn that new culture. It seemed that everyone had experience being there but our student-teachers. Our Author [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )“An Ethnograghic Perspective” (chp 1)
EWP
The leaders of our Writing Projects never cease to amaze. They can find just the right article or book for an assignment that makes you not only want more of the material, but also question how to get more of you. Ethnographic Eyes seems to be another great example. “Studying classroom patterns without judgement” is [...]
October 20, 2007
HEADLINES: October 20 Relights the SI Fires
I have just returned from the scene and let me tell you folks, Blogging and Beyond was a great session. Some of the key podcasters were Ian, Kathy, Peggy, Jennifer, Robin and Marsha.
Recaps of the day show that Karen and Mike led a non-threatening [...]
The Pool
The pool.
A place for friends, family, sisters.
A place to relax, read, gossip, communicate (with others or nature).
The pools is a place where we can be ourselves– without hairspray, without make-up, and without judgement.
Bathing suits, towels, sunscreen, sunglasses, and a beverage
are the material items.
And if you find yourself without company, no problem.
Grab a book or just [...]
Molly and Pierre met in a bar…..
It was late (nearly 5 o’clock somewhere) and Molly’s friends were not there for their girls night out. Molly was raised not to go out by herself after dark, but the semester was almost over and she, like all girls, just wanna have fun. In a split second she had grabbed her ID, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )What’s Changed…
In what ways have you changed since your first day entering the classroom as a teacher?
An extension on a Journal Entry from Jun 15, 2007
My first day was intimidating. Miss Dean, with a jumper dress over a turtleneck. Would I be any good? Would I meet expectations? Would everyone like me? Questions like [...]
Concerns
What concerns you about the furture of education or what would you like to change?
A Journal entry from June 20, 2007
Most concerns we have about education fall into the same category as those things we would like to see changed. We will begin with attitiutdes. Attitutes about our educational systems. from children and adults, have [...]
What it means to be a Teacher
Journal entry from June 13, 2007
Teachers are educators, facilitators, parents (or guardians), planners, accomodators, disciplinarians, monitors, and mentors. We are always being watched (or seen out of school) by administrators, parents, and students. Topics of many conversations -good and bad-teachers are sometimes not seen as people with lives out side the classroom. We are expected [...]
Post-demo letter
June 28, 2007
Dear SI 07 Fellows:
I am writing to thank you for your cooperation and participation during my demonstration on Wednesday, June 27, 2007. I thoroughly enjoyed sharing my ideas with you.
I am pleased that your letters revealed content understanding as well as questions in the areas that were not totally clear to you.. [...]
Technohappy
My happiest moment with technology was when I figured out that I could figure it out. I was a long time substitute, at a local school in which no one would help me with the “grade machine” program. I found a manual and began to ‘play’ with the different aspects of the program. I realized [...]
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