A week or two ago, I was talking with a few of my students about our blogs and Thibault (Hi Thibault!) asked if I had updated mine recently. I quickly pulled out my phone to check the date of my last post and sheepishly admitted to a lapse in writing... a LONG lapse. Thanks for the accountability check, sir! Another student, Olivia, a talented writer and a blogger herself, challenged me to write a post before the end of Spring break. She will do the same. So thank you, Olivia and Thibault. I am not necessarily writing because I have anything brilliant to say. I am writing because you said you would and I said I would and therefore I am. I needed the encouragement and it's really cool that it came from my own students.
Teaching has been great this year. I have awesome students (clearly), work with an excellent teaching staff, and am enjoying my graduate classes at NC State. This semester I'm taking a class called Teachers as Leaders and another called Theory and Research in Global Learning. The latter has been particularly interesting because I'm pursuing an international teaching position and love learning about other cultures and how education is impacted by global issues. Here's a project I created for Theory and Research in Global Learning about gender equity in education around the world. I love that the NLGL program at State gives its students such freedom over what they research and create. The freedom has allowed me to do explore topics that are very interesting and useful to me. This concept of autonomy is something that I've been trying to bring into my classroom this year. After break (tomorrow!) we're starting a research project, the "I Wonder" project through which students will have a good deal of freedom over what they research and how they synthesize and express their learning to their classmates. Still sketching out the details of the project, so I'll leave you here and get back to work.
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