The month is almost over. The point being, I did a lot of artwork for February’s reading and writing celebration that I will likely never see again. So here are some pictures of our Hats Off to Reading and Where the Wild Things Are Displays.
EDU-6920: Education Research
Guiding Question: How can data collection and analysis improve my practice? Data collection and analysis are key tools in fully understanding everything that happens and how your students are learning. While I was using these tools in my dance teaching classroom and not in a school classroom, I found it important to try using these tools in this environment because it is so much harder to collect data in a dance classroom where the students often do little to no writing. What I was able to look at was keeping more reflection journals and including […]
EDU-5020: Literature for Children
Guiding Question: How do literature and media help children and youths learn, grow, and connect to the world? It’s said over and over and over again that children who read “do better”. What that means in the long term, I’m not sure, but what I can attest to as a reader and as someone who has spent this summer reading more children’s literature is that reading is most certainly a doorway into other realms and into other minds. We are given characters to connect with and stories that we can’t always experience on our own […]
EDU-6933: Moral Philosophy and Professional Ethics
How should we treat each other? That’s the guiding question for the course, and an important one (though seemingly innocuous at first) for an educator. And as a feminist, it’s something that needs to be really fully analyzed. I call myself a feminist for a variety of reasons, but the biggest one is for advocation. Being an advocate for others is a large part of the ethic of care, and part of the reason the ethic of care is tied so closely with the feminist movement as I see it. The more case studies that […]
EDU-5041: Promoting Inventive Thinking
“Guiding Question: How do contemporary definitions of literacy liberate educators to empower students’ inventive thinking?” One of the greatest things about literacy in the digital age is its diversity. It is more readily accepted that literacy is not simply the ability to read and write. It is the ability to communicate in meaningful ways. And yes, a huge part of that is digital literacy. Everything is online now. Finding information can take mere seconds. It’s understanding what information is relevant and useful, what sources you can use and what should be looked out for, that […]
Thoughts: NHD and Feedback, Feedback, Feedback!!!
My copy of Teaching the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework: Exploring Inquiry-based Instruction in Social Studies came in the mail today. As I’m still a student in my education program, I get very excited whenever I get mail from the National Council for the Social Studies. It makes me feel more like a professional. At the same time, I have a habit of bringing the latest mail from them to class and showing it to the only other social studies content area person in my class. I was just as excited to see […]
EDU-5320: Technology in Education
Reflection on website designed for course. http://robindonovan.wix.com/edutechjsc
Middle Grades Institute: Organization Strand
This week has been tremendously helpful as far as furthering my understanding of education and knowing not just where my students are coming from, but giving me ideas of how these things might be carried forward into high school.There’s a lot that is going to have to happen from within an existing system. As an education student I don’t have much sway with the organization as a whole, but that doesn’t mean I can’t keep notes and track ideas that I have and how they might correspond to improving what we can so that the […]