Category Archives: teacher education
Mistaken Mondays: Participating in Patriarchy
In an effort to help me be more reflective and consistent in my blog posting, I’ve created theme days. For Mondays, my goal is to reflect on some mistake I’ve made in my teaching in an effort to understand, remedy, … Continue reading
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A More Practical Approach
Just an FYI post: I’ve restarted a blog I haven’t revisited in four years. I, along with my students, have been doing a lot of interesting work with K-12 students. So, I decided to start sharing some of those practical … Continue reading
Posted in Science Education, teacher education
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What will become of teacher education?
Schools/programs such as Iowa BIG and Waukee APEX reflect efforts to reform education going back more than 100 years. While the people running these programs might not agree, there is a lot of similarity to vocational programs many of us grew … Continue reading
Posted in Education Reform, Learning, Nature of Teaching, Teacher Actions, teacher education
Tagged dewey, PBL, teacher education
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Teaching is Design: Cultural Constraints
I’ve written a few posts relating teaching and design (see here, here, here, and here). If teaching is designing, then ideas about design might provide interesting insight into teaching. Last time I wrote about material constraints, but culture and society … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Nature of Learning, Nature of technology, teacher education
Tagged constraints, culture, Design, designthinking, Learning
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Critical of ALL Technology
I know I come off harsh on technology. I consider myself to be an early experimenter with technology in education. I had my students use twitter in class before they knew what twitter was (that was in 2007). While I am … Continue reading
Teaching is Designing
Teaching is designing. If we take John Spencer’s design cycle as a starting point, consider how teachers demonstrate awareness, inquiry, research, ideation, planning, prototyping, testing and revising, and launching/marketing. For example, when a teacher is working on creating a new problem-based … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Nature of technology, teacher education, Technology Education
Tagged Design, engineering, teaching
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Why I do what I do
This morning I received the following email about one of my preservice teachers who is currently student teaching. Some nice motivation to keep going. Good morning: Yesterday I had the pleasure of working with _______ at _____ Middle School. It was only … Continue reading
Teaching as Dynamic 