Hi class! So, I'm working on creating a professional page for myself, which will include my teaching philosophy. It will eventually be a hypertext with links to various things, including additional explanations of how our course concepts fit into it, but right now it is just the text. I've already gotten feedback on it from Dr. Rice, but I haven't had a chance to revise yet. If you are willing, please take a look! It's on Wordpress because I don't trust Blogger long-term. It ate one of my other blogs a year ago. If you can't leave comments there, you can leave them in the comments section here. This is the link:
sherimcclurebaker.com
Sheri, I love your ideas! I also am attempting to do a hyperlinked philosophy and originally thought that my blog would be a professional work space, but I couldn't make the technology work for me on blogger. Maybe WP is the way to go. Your three goals make so much sense. I am impressed (and a bit jealous, as I'm still struggling with this) with the way you integrated the scholarly underpinnings into your teaching goals. Structurally, the integration was seamless. Intellectually, the argument you made for each pedagogical goal was well supported and very persuasive. You influenced my own thinking on pedagogical approaches. Thank you for sharing! I'm looking forward to reading more of your work!
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to seeing your final draft, Sheri. Some quick notes if you have time to include them into your draft due in a few days:
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- keep working on including rhetorical background
- define Constructionist a little more directly
- working on concision
Using your previously mentioned teaching philosophies, and adapting to a website, is outstanding! I'm especially attracted to the basics of knowing your own lens then using the power of datagogy to bring everyone together.
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ReplyDeleteThere's great synergy between your statement and mine, even though we wrote them for somewhat different applications. The importance of agency and critical thinking ability are two of the major themes in my philosophy statement, as well. I appreciate the quote you include from Ally; that learning is dependent on one’s ability to “interpret information and the world according to their personal reality, and […] observation, processing, interpretation, and personaliz[ing] the information into personal knowledge.” I’m fascinated by trying to figure out how to encourage others to interpret information in their everyday lives and reflect, assign it meaning for their “personal reality.” In my other course, 5382, we were just discussing this idea as it relates to “information design.” It is so important to teach students to unpack the subtle, sometimes hidden, rhetoric of advertising and even mainstream news media.
Great work including other scholars in your statement that we haven’t yet covered in class. I’m inspired to go learn more about their work and add it to what we’ve been discussing in class this semester.
Thanks. I'm looking forward to reviewing your teaching philosophy essay and offering you comments via email. You'll receive notes from me soon.
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