May 23, 2007
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Yesterday evening:
Read the interesting parts of the latest TETYC(Teaching English in the Two-Year College) and reviewed the notes I made in You Just Don’t Understand by Deb Tannen.
Notes from TETYC:
- “Teaching without License: Outsider Perspectives on First-Year Writing” = terms: Aristotelian model, tagments/tagmemics, and heuristic… I’d like to try to “scaffold” my writing assignments more…
- A quote too: “We want teachers to read and reflect on the scholarship and the theories driving them, and then make their own practical decisions. We emphasize to teachers that it doesn’t matter so much whether they use portfolios (or any other practice), but that they are able to reflect on the theory behind the practice.” (401)
- An insight: “Using a similar paradigm, we establish a safe haven where we can engage in similar forms of meta-analysis, admitting our questions and sometimes our ignorance as we figure things out or revise our understandings of the course and the field.” (402)
- There was also an instructional note where a prof described her use of the paranormal in class. She gets looked down upon by peers because of that sort of theme, but the project sound engaging and the students fight to get into her class. Essentially, her story reminding me of my urge to someday teach using The Simpsons, etc.
- Lastly, (jee, I got a lot out of that publication, huh?) there was a section on Digital Literature, or how I know it – hypertext stories, etc. I think it’d be interesting to have students read genres of literature that are traditional/classic, but then also show them hypertext. What a great idea to reinforce since I had always thought of doing that anyhow!
