My first experience putting together a teaching portfolio was in my undergraduate teacher training program. The specifics elude me a decade after the fact, but I remember that in the year or so between my Junior Professional Experience (think “student teaching lite”) and the end of student teaching, I was…
Category: Professional Development
Portfolios & Digital Identity
Some time in late fall or early winter, I got the bright idea to re-vamp my professional portfolio. Little did I know at the time what kind of a rabbit hole I’d be going down, but now that I’ve (more or less) come out the other side, I wanted to…
No Doctor in This House
It’s been a long-term goal of mine to earn a doctoral degree. Until relatively recently, I thought that would be in education, but my grad school experience studying school psychology opened up another research interest for me. As I was winding down my Ed.S. program over the last year or…
Mea Culpa
Last Sunday’s Washington Post ran an article I’m surprised more bloggers haven’t jumped on yet. In her piece, “We’re Teaching Books That Don’t Stack Up”, English teacher Nancy Schnog laments the disconnect between her students and the classics of Western literature she is required to teach. She cites a recent…
Twitter’s Identi.ca Crisis
I’ve been actively involved on Twitter for almost a year now, and I have a lot to thank it for. I’ve been introduced to some fantastic folks via Twitter, some of whom have even made guest appearances in my classes. I’ve developed a PLN around Twitter that has heavily informed…