Friday, September 23, 2016

For next week:

Readings:
In Yassir's Shoes, by Shari Farris
Shadowing a Student Shows How to Make Learning More Relevant, by Margery Ginsberg
Motivation: The Key to Academic Success in Culturally Diverse High Schools, by Margery Ginsberg

Also, be sure to have read and understand chapter 3 in Transformative Professional Learning
Be ready to develop your shadowing plan.

Reflective Prompt:

How do the concepts of intrinsic motivation and culturally relevant instruction discussed in Excited to Learn become a lens through which we view instruction and supervision?

What is one takeaway from either the book or Cassie's presentation you are thinking about?

#TODAY

Excited to Learn (Cassie)

Friday, September 9, 2016

Reflective Prompt 9/7/16

Reflective Prompt:

  • Glickman (p. 13) states, " Educators are the primary stewards of the democratic spirit. The total of our efforts is far greater than the particulars of our job."
  • Elmore (p.3) examines the actual experience of students in the classroom: Teachers and Students in the presence of Content
    • "Practice drives belief..."
  • Ginsberg reminds us that motivated teachers have motivated learners, and that the whole activity of education is ethical and political in nature (p.5).
  1. What type of society do we desire?
  2. What type of educational environment should supervision promote in order to move us toward the society we desire?

#TODAY...

Class Notes 9/7/2016: begin slide 11