Adventures in Learning About Learning

  Day One I thought my program was tomorrow morning and that I was late at preparing. I'm a dumbass and they scheduled me for the 19th, not the 16th. This is God telling me to actually prepare and this is important.  I have found an image for a sun salutation and will now make puns in accordance to it. So far we have "twin sun salutation", "the child pose", and "c3po turned off".  Still don't know if Leia costume fits.  Here's to not making Peter disappointed!  - a procrastinating mofo Update: Totally killed it. They want me to do it again. Everything went swimmingly, albeit it was a little short. OH WELL 

  Reflection on Contemporary Education This class was the most culturally relevant class I have taken in education thus far. Throughout I learned not just what it means to be a teacher during turbulent times, but also what it means to be a person with empathy and how best to use that empathy.  I have split this reflection into two parts. The first is answering the guiding questions which help me as a learner, organize, and categorize the content I have learned. The second part is a “diary entry” which answers the question, what tools do I now have to be an agent of inspiration? What strategies were gained that promote a healthy, and safe learning environment? One major strategy that I love and have already started including in presentations for classes is establishing a common vocabulary. I had experienced establishing classroom expectations, but I felt that they were never concrete enough to be super relevant to a normal class day. But when discussing common vocabulary you ar...

  Construct a unique narrative as a learner-instructor and consider the responsibilities of that approach for their work with youth For this course reflection, I chose to write a short story from the perspective of a student in a middle school. I walked into class and was overwhelmed by the scent of new white-board markers. The lights were loud and I squinted as I walked to my new teacher, who gave me a seat in the front row. I watched her as she turned off the lights and turned on a movie, another in a series of 90s documentaries on the civil war. The static screen flickered between images of red coats and grey coats, men starving in the rain. An old white man with wrinkly eyes came on and started speaking about the cause of the civil war, and to my surprise, he never mentioned slavery once. I looked around the classroom to see if anyone was registering the phrases "states economic rights" and "right to live as they please" but everyone's eyes were glossy and o...

  Reflection on The Ecology of Human Experience K. Brook Gentry In The Ecology of Human Experience, we explored the various ways that the world around our students has direct impacts on them as learners. By first getting an understanding of various learning theories and then applying those theories to specific situations I learned just how relevant one’s environment is to their learning. After learning about different theories of development, we were able to apply them and see how they fit both in our own lives and in the lives of the people we read about.  One thing we were asked to do is make an analysis of 5 different psychological theories of development. This helped me learn, and structure in my mind, the similarities, and differences that these psychologists observed. One thing that struck me about this unit was our conversation about bias amongst these scientists. Piaget himself only studied rich kids in Paris, not a thorough cross-section of even those in his own city....