09.08.06
Overview of Personal Goals for EDLA 7550
My initial review of the introduction posts by members of our course revealed multiple educational and professional goals. They range from searching for answers to puzzling questions about theory and research, through seeking advice and strategies for practice, to expressing desires to model to our students ways of learning, engaging with literature, and composing. Some of you would like to explore the potential of blogging for classroom teaching through your personal journeys on the blogs that you have created for this course. All these goals are excellent. I also believe that they will be highly appreciated by your students.
I am proud of the unique educational backgrounds that you bring with you to this course; just to name but a few: in-depth knowledge of literature, art, music, philosophy, literary theory, and teaching. I am convinced that all these experiences will only enhance our discussions and explorations of theory and pedagogy of English instruction in EDLA 7550.
I invite you to become co-constructors of theory and pedagogy in this course and beyond, and I, in my role as a more capable other, will do my best to support you in this process by providing examples and questions for thoughtful explorations and modeling decision-making that will come for you naturally with experience.
September 15, 2006 at 2:20 pm
I am inpressed with your blog as well as your students! I look forward to reading more! I’ve noticed that you all have been “noticed” by some other fine members of the edublog community! I wish you all the best in your blogging journey!