I started a class for grad school this week.
Wow. I forgot what being a student felt like. It's exciting to be taking a class. The Hermione Granger side of my personality is waking up and she's excited for assignments and reading and writing. (I'm a nerd. I know.) But I've also never taken classes and worked full time all at once. It's week one and I'm sitting at my desk at school staring at a stack of essays, folders full of literature circle jobs to grade, book trailer submissions on my Edmodo page, and a list of students to email... and it seems like a lot. I have three weeks left with my sixth-graders, and am sure I'll find a way to make everything work... but geez, I sure wish I had a time-turner. Anyway, my first assignment is a pre-assessment. I looked at the standards-based outcomes of ECI 521, Teaching Literature for Young Adults, and completed a "Funds of Knowledge Inventory" assessing my current abilities against the outcomes of this course in the areas of professional, literate and virtual self. Here's a picture of my initial reaction to the outcomes. I'll analyze them further, looking for themes and patterns and will post a more coherent explanation tomorrow.
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5/21/2014 10:05:22 am
Bravo! I hope you share your process with your students, Jill. I bet they'll be impressed by how you practice what you teach.
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