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TE 822 - Iss Culture Classroom & Curric
Summer 2016
Summer 2016
Standard 5: Communication skills and information literacy
Thoughtful, accomplished teachers are literate, a model for students and others of what it means to be a well-educated persons, and communicating clearly and skillfully in writing to different audiences for different purposes. As professionals, teachers are information-literate. They are avid readers of the professional literature and critical consumers of information in its many forms. They know how to access, use, and evaluate information to enhance their professional understanding, improve their practice, and share their knowledge with others.
Thoughtful, accomplished teachers are literate, a model for students and others of what it means to be a well-educated persons, and communicating clearly and skillfully in writing to different audiences for different purposes. As professionals, teachers are information-literate. They are avid readers of the professional literature and critical consumers of information in its many forms. They know how to access, use, and evaluate information to enhance their professional understanding, improve their practice, and share their knowledge with others.
Commentary
This artifact was created in TE 822: Issues of Culture in Classroom and Curriculum. The course set out to objectify culture in multiple concrete forms. For example, we critically analyzed varying cultures and how they would define childhood, as well as looked at schooling and the associated processes of cultural assimilation and social mobility, and identified the critical relationship developed between schools and home and worked to understand the role culture plays in that process.
Within the course, we were also assigned to develop a personal course blog. This blog was simply to be considered a piece of writing that everyone else can see. Through our study, we would post separate reflections and five times - an Introduction, a Conclusion and one post for each of the three cycles that comprised the course. We would also engage in written discussion with others in the course by reading and commenting on their blog posts.
The posts illustrate my informed and coherent ability to skillfully write with purpose and meaning. Course texts were used to enhance my professional understanding by reading the professional literature and then engaging with the presented ideas by reflecting through written academic discourse. The blog provided a world audience that I could learn from and share my knowledge with.
This artifact was created in TE 822: Issues of Culture in Classroom and Curriculum. The course set out to objectify culture in multiple concrete forms. For example, we critically analyzed varying cultures and how they would define childhood, as well as looked at schooling and the associated processes of cultural assimilation and social mobility, and identified the critical relationship developed between schools and home and worked to understand the role culture plays in that process.
Within the course, we were also assigned to develop a personal course blog. This blog was simply to be considered a piece of writing that everyone else can see. Through our study, we would post separate reflections and five times - an Introduction, a Conclusion and one post for each of the three cycles that comprised the course. We would also engage in written discussion with others in the course by reading and commenting on their blog posts.
The posts illustrate my informed and coherent ability to skillfully write with purpose and meaning. Course texts were used to enhance my professional understanding by reading the professional literature and then engaging with the presented ideas by reflecting through written academic discourse. The blog provided a world audience that I could learn from and share my knowledge with.
