Who am I as an educator?

It's apparently always going to be a learning process! As I read through the two different groups of educational philosophies, I couldn't help but agree with some piece of each of them! However, Constructivism did speak the most to me in terms of how I learn anything for myself: basically by doing. My scores somewhat reflected all of this:

Perennialism: 10
Essentialism: 13
Information Processing: 14
Behaviorism: 15
Reconstruction/Critical Theory: 19
Cognitivism/Constructivism: 20
Humanism: 20
Progressivism: 22!


While Constructivism was close to Progressivism, I was surprised to see Progressivism at the top of the scoring chart. Just last semester in my English methods class, I began to look at inquiry as one of many ways to teach students - and found it so difficult! However, it seems to go hand in hand with a Constructivist hands on approach. I am currently working in a high school (not teaching yet though) where I see first hand how apathetic the students can be about social and current worldly issues. So maybe this survey is the expression of my inner thoughts?! As Gandhi said, "Be the change I wish to see in the world..." and teach from that perspective.

As I took the survey, I couldn't help but wonder how this would help put some label on my perspective of teaching, but I found the results intriguing.

Tapped in Adventure thoughts

So I finally figured out our Tapped in Adventure group to join! It looks like a fun site and great for further discussion among colleagues. I looked at the calendar for June, and it looks like there are several great workshops to attend. I was most drawn to were the ones using technology to teach content (i.e. Learning From Lyrics on 6/15, ArtsConnectEd on 6/23), but I saw there were some interesting ones about how to use Tapped in Adventure in the classroom as well as CyberEthics. Thoughts?

As a Captionist...

I also wanted to note how great it was that on the youtube Blogger demo, there were captions! Not all videos/demos on the web are captioned, and it's awesome when they include it!

Creating a PWS

I am very excited to have my own blog and website for the first time!

Out of the listed free PWS available, I found Weebly to be extremely helpful and fairly easy to use for this first-timer! I was having a great time trying out different things, when suddenly, it's hours later, and I begin to realize just how addicting all this can be...especially for someone who loves to write.