School: Future Writing

20 thoughts on School: Future Writing

1. “evolution of your personal pedagogy” would be really interesting to me. also, “curriculum, standards and approaches”– I’m a pedagogy-lover, I confess!

2. I personally would like to read all of them. Teaching at the high school level is something I’ve thought a lot about, an option I’d like to keep open in case I get a wild hair up my ass to teach some physics or math or something like that. Any experience you have to offer will be of interest to me.

3. Student Ability and Curriculum interest me the most, with Pedagogy a close second (third?) – but I’m sure they’d all be insightful.

4. Ummm…all of them?

   But if I had to pick, I like these (but not in any particular order)

   Knowing vs. Having Fun
   Reading and Writing vs. Studying Literature
   Teacher Morale, Student Morale
   Student Ability

5. Evolution of Personal Pedogogy and Knowing vs. Having Fun

6. I’m a parent of a kindergartener, and I’d really be interested in Student Ability, Curriculum, and Personal Pedagogy. I’ve been subscribing to Rethinking Schools ever since my daughter entered Early Start.

   I’m curious about the Carharrt thing though—I don’t see too many kids around here wearing them. I’m still pissed at Carharrt for not making bibs that fit women. They make ’em for kids, but not for women, dammit! I want bibs in a size that fits my torso! Men’s bibs are too long in the torso! (No, you can’t just buy women’s denim bibs for ‘fashion’; they aren’t designed to hold tools in the pockets. They fall apart too soon, and the pockets aren’t deep enough. Plus, they’re more expensive) GAHH. Ok, End of Carharrt rant.

7. All of ’em!

   I love discussing education. Bring it on. 🙂

8. Teen Sexuality and Deviance in the Classroom

   followed by Reading and Writing vs. Studying Literature

9. Teen sexuality and deviance … other than watching mating displays at the waterhole, how much perspective do you really get on this? It was my sense in high school that, other than the soap opera of who was dating who and some very distorted rumors, the teachers didn’t have a blessed clue what was going on. Do you have real sources of information?

10. Knowing vs. Having Fun, since Learning and Having Fun are very closely related to me. I have a friend who thinks Knowing is Fun, because she likes to prove she’s smarter than other people. To me the joy is in the learning itself, though.

11. Student ability with emphasis on observation. I don’t know what you teach, being mainly a lurker here, but in terms of student exercises, the best one I can recall was our first experiment in high-school chemistry, which was to observe a burning candle and make as many observations as possible over a period of a half-hour.

12. I’m in favor of the development of pedagogy, and also the deviance and student identity topics.
    I remember in college there was a girl who one afternoon told me about all the vacations her family takes in Jamaica and Greece, and the next day proudly showed off her Salvation-Army purchased Carharts. She gasped and gaped at me when I told her I didn’t know what Carharts were. This was a perfect picture of the kind of weird combination of class (and white) guilt and blind priviledge that operated at that school (which I otherwise loved).

13. Morale. Definitely.

14. as an english major, i’d have to go for the Reading/Writing v. Studying Literature and as a mom, Curriculum and Student Identity. It’s coming up faster than I think, I just know it.

15. Any and all of the above. I enjoy hearing about teaching — the theory and the reality — and your observations about your students. Having been out of school for…. well, a while, there are all sorts of things going on with kids of which I am unaware. Not being a mom at this point, maybe never, I may never need to know these things. But that doesn’t stop me from being interested in hearing about them.

    Besides, you write well and it’s a pleasure to read. Both you and Jill are quite articulate the vast majority of the time, which is truly a pleasure.

16. Very cool, Lauren.The two that most interest me are Reading and Writing vs. Studying Literature and Teacher Morale, Student Morale. I’ve been an ELA teacher for several years and have just started an M. Ed in literacy education. I work with kids who often already have an appreciation of literature in their first language, but struggle with simple decoding in English – so frustrating for them. We have to work on beginning skills like sounding out and structural analysis, but at the same time I want them to enjoy what they read. It’s incredibly hard to find decent books at this level. Check out Mark Sadoski on Cognitive vs. Affective competencies in reading -he’s very readable and makes some good points.

    The second topic interests me because I work at a “failing” (i.e. poor) school. We were just taken off academic watch, and it was interesting to see how the kids perked up at the news – and this is middle school. No matter how much they claim to hate the school, they identify with it.

17. I’m most interested in the middle ones:
    The Evolution of my Personal Pedagogy
    Teen Sexuality and Deviance in the Classroom
    Girl Pants, Carhart, and Student Identity

    The first one for selfish practical reasons and the second two because they’re darned well titled, to say the least.

18. I’m with the all crowd. Sock it to us.

19. I’m with the “The Evolution of my Personal Pedagogy” crowd; it would be fascinating to see how you got from point ‘D’ to point ‘P’ (or wherever you’re at, currently).

20. As a professional freelance writer with an English/Creative Writing degree, you know what interests me the most.

    Reading and Writing vs. Studying Literature

    Only certain people look forward to reading posts like this–and most are not engineers and programmers.

    Now if I can find my way to the Breadloaf some day…

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