I read this and was immediately rejecting of the idea of being an adversary, because I don’t want to be an adversary to my students… I also wouldn’t want to call myself their partner either. To me, I’d prefer to be their advocate. Somebody who has there back and will support them, but is more […]
communication
work balance and feelings of earned work time
The most recent “toxic” behavior I’ve dealt with in my class has been students not paying attention to each other’s projects and trying to work on their classwork in class. When another pair of students is at the front of the room or I am at the front of the room and the pairs think […]
Internalized Routines & “The Writer”
In our reading for today, Mike Rose accurately writes that “people don’t proceed through problem situations…without some set of internalized instructions to the self, some program, some course of action that, even roughly, takes goals and possible paths to that goal into consideration” (5). This might seem rather obvious and can seemingly be applied to […]
Realistic Expectations
Instead of focusing on the idealistic facets of this class, I think it might be more sensible for me to root the goals and the mile-markers of this class firmly within the realistic. This class and its curriculum were not created, from how I interpret everything, with idealistic successes in mind, but instead determined how […]
Valuing Writing as a Means of Discovering and Communicating Meaning
As a writing teacher, I believe inherently in each student’s ability to be a writer – and by “ability to be a writer” I mean someone who can access writing as a means of communication and apply the skill of writing to achieve related goals. My personal philosophy as a writing teacher is that writing […]
“Questions of Intent: Communication Disorder, Transfer, and Writing Pedagogy.”
Vallis, Gina L. “Questions of Intent: Communication Disorder, Transfer, and Writing Pedagogy.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 15.3 (2015): 441-457. Web Summary This article examines communicative intent in the writing classroom through applying lessons from both personal reflections and studies of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The author discusses problem-solving from a […]