I chose to name this Blog The Pedagogy Garden, because in the world of education I consider myself to be a seed that can one day cultivate into an experienced educator. Since I started public school circa the early eighties, I have been blessed to have encountered a few teachers that used their gifts of teaching to motivate their students to go on mass treasure hunts to find their own passions. I hope to do the same thing for my students, but before I teach, I must be taught.
The purpose of this blog is to analyze the readings that I am given in this Intro to Teaching Writing and Literature course and to invite my classmates to respond to the opinions that I post, as I hope to do for them on their blogs. I plan on introducing each reading with a succinct summary and then pulling out three main parts from each of them. The first part would be the "fruits" or the words of wisdom that I found to be the most poignant throughout the text. The next part would be the "weeds" or the points in which I found to be cryptic or ideas that I disagree with. The last part would be the "basket" which I will fill with the fruits that I plan on taking into the real world with me when I start teaching. This is where you come in. If you have any ideas as to how I can implement any fruits into my lessons please share your advice. I'm looking forward to having a fun semester with you all. Let's do it!
I really like your creativity with your thought process with coming up with your name for your blog. The usage of "fruits", "weeds", and "basket" is a good way of disecting what you already know or learn and putting it into those categories. By chance are the "fruits" you are trying to implement into your lessons for now or in the future after finishing grad school?
ReplyDeleteThey are actually for both. Even if I pursued a PhD in Composition and Rhetoric, I would always be trying to learn new things because the world around me is always changing. Thanks for your comment.
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