(Session 1)

 (Session 1)

August 22, 2016

Writing Prompts: Things I learned last week & First Reader poem by Billy Collins

• Review & sign POS & Letter of Intent

• Letter to yourself

• Research Question as a moving target

• Intellectual History Introduction

• Review Syllabus Highlights

• Intellectual History Introduction (see Train Map)

•  Intellectual History (2015)

• Intellectual History (2014)

•  Intellectual History (2013)

• Intellectual History (2012)

•  Vitali Intellectual History

• Basically, the Intellectual History refers to the major ideas and influences that have contributed to who you are today as a teacher. This involves thinking deeply and individually about your own stories of who you are, pivotal people, events, places that significantly influence what you do, why you do it and how you teach and learn with your students. The SEPTA train map is a metaphor to help you think about your storied and journeyed professional life and the significant stops/highlights/you have made along that influence the you you  are today.

Peruse Shagoury & Power text: Living the Question first chapters

 

Read Articles for next week (8/29)

1. Vitali (Storytelling as the Content & Context for Teaching)

2. Brown (Lighting Fire essay)

3. Henderson (Teacher Research in Early Education)

4. Steib (Visiting & revisiting the trees)

5. Sanford (It all adds up)

Other:

Levin. July/August 2006). Action research: What is it? Why is it important?Exchange. 

WELCOME, Capstone Teacher Practitioners

Midpoint Review 

(Fall 2016-Spring 2017)

I have the privilege to walk beside you during this reflective and introspective journey as you look more closely at yourself, practice and learner in your classroom with your students. This is a liberating time for you to explore your professional practice independently, collectively,, reflexively, and creatively.

Please mark your calendar for Friday, October 24 from 9:00am-3:30pm. You will be sharing your Oral Inquiry Proposal Presentation at the main campus to your committee members. Please arrange your leave with your school principal.

Your coach, fan, advocate & guide

Frances

The power of story becomes essential as a teacher researcher:

Story is another word we all understand in context without being able to put a precise meaning to it. Stories usually but not inevitably involve location, landscapes, protagonists, intentions, emotions, conflicts, obstacles, struggles, and consequences (which always lead into new stories.) These are elements we always look for in any situation in which we are involved. (Frank Smith in To Think, 1990, p. 63)

"Critical reflection is matter of stance and dance. Our stance is one of inquiry. We see it as a constant formation and always needing further investigation. Our dance is the dance of experimentation and risk" (Brookfield, 1995, p. 42 as cited in Allen, 2009, A Sense of Belonging, p. 20).

Seminar Readings, Intellectual History, Teacher Reflections & Vignettes below.