Musings in . . .
Musings on . . .
The bad news is that I don't have seven steps or three keys or the magical formula for education. I'm still figuring out this whole teacher gig . . . and my place in this universe. These are my musings.
- John Spencer
- I teach. I write. I live. I want to do all three authentically.
These are the ten blogs I go to at least on a weekly basis. I have them in my reader, but I actually click on the links. I read a lot of other blogs, but somehow I've connected best with these so far:
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my mini-musings
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it was relevant at the time . . .
I have always been reluctant with posting resources for a few reasons. However, feel free to use whatever you want. Modify it. Mix it. Mock it. Steal it.
Art Integration
Assessment Strategies
Avoiding Burn-out
Classroom Leadership
Constructivism / Constructivist Ideas
Cooperative Learning Activities
Critical Pedagogy
Critical Thinking / Bloom's Taxonomy
Discussion Activities
Kinesthetic Activities
Multiple Intelligences
Service Learning Resources
Technology: Collaborative Tools
Technology: Images
Technology: Social / Communication Tools
Technology: Freeware and Open Source Sites
Technology: Mindtools
Technology: Multimedia Tools
Technology: Online Publishing
Technology: Teacher-Centered Tools
Technology: Tech-Integrated Research
Technology: Technology Literacy
Writing Tutorials
recovering what we lost
Is it any wonder that we feel like robots when the man who shaped the current educational philosophy wrote a book called "Beyond Freedom and Dignity?"
5 comments:
If it can't, I'm wasting a lot of other people's time.
I find that there is a paradox when I teach. I don't go in trying to change lives, just trying to help kids think deeper about life and in that process, I end up having an impact.
I see education as something powerful. Sometimes the power changes kids for the better and sometimes it becomes indoctrination and changes them for the worse.
I often wonder if it was education or the overall experience (not necessarily what I learned) that changed me the most.
Can you separate the experience from the education? I'm thinking the peer group, the mentoring, etc. all influenced me in both positive and negative ways. If I learned through it, wasn't that an education?
I know for a FACT, I'm a better man because of my experiences in the classroom... before becoming a teacher, I worked in corporate America... working with five-year-olds has forced me to slow down, become extremely patient, and basically made me a MUCH better person. I truly and the lucky one.
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