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Blog Entry: Based on your reading of chapter 6, please author:

1. A time line entry that has historical, conceptual /theoretical and personal significance.

2. A paragraph discussion for your writing circle about using commentary / feedback to support learning.

However you post your entries, please have them available for discussion in class.

Reading: Teaching to Change the World  Chapter 6: Assessment: Measuring What Matters

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Blog Entry: Based on your reading for class, please write five questions and/or five statements to guide and inform class discussion. 

Reading:    Mitton-Kükner, J., Nelson, C., and Desrochers, C. (2010). Narrative inquiry in service learning contexts: Possibilities for learning about diversity in teacher education. Teaching and Teacher Education, 26(5), 1162-1169. 

"Boyle-Baise's (2002) conceptual framework of service [...] provides a useful lens for reconsidering the ‘service’ dimension of the service learning experience with a view to creating an inquiry-focused experience that, rather than being a ‘peek across borders’ (Boyle-Baise, 2002) to learn about others, might become a ‘borderland’ experience (Anzaldúa, 1987/1999) to learn about ‘self in relation with others’."

Discussion: Service Learning and Narrative Inquiry  

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Please recount your initial journal entry required by the  JCU Center for Service and Social Action.   In lieu of this entry and/or if you have yet to visit your service learning site, please author a personal narrative describing the site where you will be working and your thoughts and feelings about this emergent experience.  Discuss what qualifies a site as a site, raise a few questions consider how you might approach answering these questions.  Draw on your own lived experiences and / or course readings and discussions.  (Limit 250 word or 3 paragraphs).

WebLog 1: CLASS SURVEY
Personal information
1. Name, hometown, primary email.
2. What name do you prefer to be called?
3. Grade level and subject(s) that you want to teach (For graduate students: undergraduate and graduate degree(s), education license(s), current employment: grade level, subject(s) if applicable, district).
4. What are you into; what makes you special? Share a few “unique” aspects about yourself that would help our classroom community get to know you a bit better.

Learning Style and more:
5. Being as specific as you can, what must be in place for you to feel comfortable taking intellectual and creative risks in a classroom?

6. I am interested in your perception of yourself as a student. Please describe it. Consider such criteria as a) active oral class participation; b) responsible, timely class preparation (of readings, projects, etc.); c) honest, candid self-assessment; d) awareness of your own preferred learning styles/approaches; e) first thing that you do when you cannot or do not understand something; f)other dimensions you believe to be relevant and informative.

7. Is there anything I should know about you, your learning style, or life situation that may be relevant to your successful performance in this course? (Please decide what to share with the class and what to share in confidence with me).

Education Past and Present

8. Share a formative memory from your experiences as a student.

9. Please discuss what are, for you, the some significant issues or concerns  facing the field of education right now.

10. Let’s imagine, humbly, that this course is definitely going to be the most meaningful and relevant course you’ve ever experienced. EVER. Drawing on your past experience in classrooms, and thinking uniquely, specifically and BIG, describe what we need to (1) DO (activities/projects), (2) STUDY (content topics and compelling issues/questions), (3) BE (interacting with each other) and (4) AVOID (in the previous three categories) in order for your visionary views of an ideal course to be mostly realized.

About Dr. Shutkin:
11. Write down two or three questions you would like to ask me about myself or the class.