In this post, please provide: 1. one takeaway (one specific thing that you learned from a very quick read of the article and; 2. Ask a question about something you didn’t understand or that you’d like to know more about.
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
1/21…Democracy, pt. 1
Have you done much thinking about democracy and what our schools might/should have to do with it? If so, what have you been thinking? If not, either do some thinking about it and report or consider why you haven’t been thinking about it.
1/23…Democracy, pt. 2
What do you think the filmmaker is trying to convey about democracy? What was new to you? What did the film contribute to your understanding of what democracy is and/or can be?
1/28…What is Teaching?
What do you make of Ayers' way of talking about teaching? Did he bring up any new/different ways of understanding the enterprise? Any other thoughts?
1/30…Traditional and Progressive Schooling
Can you give an example of an experience you have had as a student that seemed traditional? How about progressive? Please very briefly one or the other. Was it a good experience? Why or why not?
2/4…Critical Pedagogy
What is critical pedagogy and what you do think of it? What connections can you make between the idea of critical pedagogy and the Gutierrez article?
2/13…Precious Knowledge
React to this film. If possible, relate this film to the contemporary CRT controversy or something else going on these days.
2/18…Podcast: Have You Heard?
Post an opinion about something you heard and a question about something you didn’t understand or that you’d like to know more about. Alternatively, you could consider the question of whether/why P-12 teachers might benefit from listening to this podcast.
4/3…Classroom Management/School Discipline and the Aims of Schooling
What was school discipline like where you went to school? Looking back, can you remember any teachers who did a particularly good job of managing their class? What did they do/not do?
3/20…Deficit and Asset Approaches: The Case of Ruby Payne
Do a little bit of exploratory research about Ruby Payne and her book "A Framework for Understanding Poverty." If you do a google search or a google scholar search, you will quickly see that her ideas are both widespread and quite controversial. Share something that you discovered about her work. You are welcome to provide some commentary on what you share, but it is not required.
3/25…“New Kid”
Raise a question that you’d Like to ask Jerry Craft. It should attempt to be on point for a course like this one (e.g., some facet of how he thinks about schooling, teaching, learning, etc.).
4/8…Teacher Interviews
Share something interesting or surprising from your interview. It can be something about the content of the interview or something related to your interviewee. You could also use this space to ask a question about the analysis of the interviews that we are about to begin.
4/10…Ask a Teacher Advocacy Expert
In light of our readings on teacher evaluation, teacher activism, and education policy, come up with two questions to ask an expert on teacher evaluation and teacher advocacy/activism. I will share the blog with a local teacher organizer and I will ask them to pick some of the questions to answer.
5/4…Teacher Evaluation (Focus on Policy) (note: this due date is a change)
After looking over the VA Guidelines for Uniform Performance Standards and Evaluation Criteria for Teachers and the Greene article (from Forbes) what are your thoughts on teacher evaluation?
● The Virginia Guidelines for Uniform Performance Standards and Evaluation Criteria for Teachers,http://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching/performance_evaluation/teacher/index.shtml
● Greene (2021).”This Decade-long Experiment in Teacher Evaluation is an Unsurprising Failure,” Forbes, www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2021/11/30/this-decade-long-experiment-in-teacher-evaluation-is-a-failure/?sh=28a6596a1737
4/22…Teachers and Teaching
What do you make of the way that the teachers (interviewees) tended to talk about teaching and being a teacher? Were you surprised by anything? Worried or disturbed?
Grab Bag…(due 4/30)
At some point this semester, please post a link to an article, video, website, etc. that made you think about something we’ve done in class. Also, please provide a brief discussion about whatever you submitted. This has no due date, but my hope is that you will check it periodically and read what your classmates are posting (feel free to comment, too).
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