{"id":679,"date":"2006-08-13T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-13T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=679"},"modified":"2013-08-03T02:59:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T06:59:52","slug":"679","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/13\/679\/","title":{"rendered":"Brainstorming about Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Need to stop work on the memoir lesson plan that I&#8217;ve been restructuring to work on the Snapshots article I set as a goal for this week. The memoir lesson is for an interesting project that ReadWriteThink is part of that coordinates with a PBS documentary. More on that later though.<\/p>\n<p>I still can&#8217;t quite zero in on the topic for the Snapshot. I have the start of a piece on student-centered assessment, but I think it&#8217;s more of an opinion piece than a Snapshot. Maybe it will work for the Speaking My Mind column actually! I hadn&#8217;t thought of that, but there&#8217;s another goal. Maybe I can aim for September on that piece. <\/p>\n<p>But back to Snapshot, I&#8217;m going to brainstorm some teaching and learning memories to try to get a start. Here goes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>freon leak in the typing classroom\n<li>showing my parents how a reference book worked when I was in 6th grade\n<li>being told I should be a teacher in 7th grade\n<li>playing school with workbooks at home\n<li>sneaking into the computer lab with students\n<li>fitting work to students&#8217; needs: grammar rules for ed students\n<li>&#8220;golden shovel&#8221; as an example of honoring students&#8217; language knowledge\n<li>engaged research for student looking at Holocaust\n<li>summary versus analysis metaphors\n<\/ul>\n<p>I wish this weren&#8217;t such a difficult process. It turns out that I really should have kept a teaching journal. Or maybe if I search through my personal journals, but my hunch is that there&#8217;s nothing but angst and depression in those (and not over teaching but everything else). <\/p>\n<p>I think I can go with the Golden Shovel though. In fact, I could easily spit out a lesson plan on that to go along with the column. I have the assignment, prewriting questions, and peer review sheet in my folders. Wouldn&#8217;t be hard to whip it out, and there&#8217;s that great reading of the poem on poets.org. Okay, off to writing that article I think. I hope?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Need to stop work on the memoir lesson plan that I&#8217;ve been restructuring to work on the Snapshots article I set as a goal for this week. The memoir lesson is for an interesting project that ReadWriteThink is part of that coordinates with a PBS documentary. More on that later though. I still can&#8217;t quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[259,377],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-narrative","tag-teaching-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sqzI8-679","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17263,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/17263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}