101+Agenda+10.18.13

9:00 - 9:05 - Welcome
 * SWBAT identify a personal teaching metaphor

9:05 - 9:50 - Identifying a personal teaching metaphor: Working towards a personal educational philosophy

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 * Individual Task: Free-write in response to the prompts on the document below:


 * "Personal Teaching Metaphor" Assignment **

A. Imagine yourself in the classroom and begin to think about what it is that you are doing, what the students are doing, and how the classroom feels.

1) Drawing on experiences that are meaningful in your own life, identify a metaphor that captures the essence of yourself as teacher. Explain how the metaphor connects with the teacher you would like to become.

2) Expand the metaphor to include the larger context of teaching. If your metaphor is “teacher as gardener”, to use a clichéd example, are the students the plants? How does the larger world of education fit (administrators, parents, school building, curriculum, etc.)?

3) Because metaphors attempt to explain the unknown by comparing it to something concrete and familiar, they must break down somewhere. In other words, a metaphor is never what it attempts to explain. Where does your metaphor break down? How is it different from teaching?

B. Choose one of the following options to present your personal teaching metaphor.

1) Create a 1-minute video and post it on YouTube. 2) Create a 1-minute photo montage using Powerpoint, Prezi, Ribbet, or some other program.

Some options for legal images: Be sure you provide attribution for your photos! This can be done at the end of your presentation/video.
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C. Assessment Checklist:

a. Metaphor is thoughtfully and thoroughly explained through text and/or audio. b. Metaphor represents a sincere, reasonable, and creative attempt to describe teaching. c. Limitations of the metaphor are identified. d. Images are visually appealing and effectively represent the metaphor. e. Images are legally used and proper attribution is provided f. Presentation is 1 minute (give or take 10 seconds)


 * To Do: **
 * School visits next week - no class on Wednesday - Sign up here: []
 * First service learning journal due today
 * Metaphor assignment due on Monday, Oct 28