Email Addresses
Posted on August 3, 2005
Hi Everyone: Here are our email addresses as I have them. If you have a better address or a second address you'd like to add, just email me. Best wishes, Charlie
tholland@uvm.edu (Tara)
Cee1101@aol.com (Christie)
dnapolit@uvm.edu (Dante)
dbaroody@uvm.edu (David)
llewis@uvm.edu (Laura)
maritodd1@silicondairy.net (Todd)
D6-Confusing Discussion and Discouragement.
Posted on July 26, 2005
I felt poorly after the intelligence/style discussion. When I'd read it, the distinctions were so clear. After talking, the distinctions were not so clear. Ahhh, the benefits of dialogue and how it moves one into one's ZPD. I'd like to just keep the warning out there that learning style and the intelligences, multiple or otherwise, are not the same. Styles cut across intelligence(s), centers should be named after styles, not intelligence(s), and don't worry too much about the details.
I also felt that the video, while providing a liquid example of how this all might work at its complex best, was also a source of discouragement to those of you just dipping your toes into teaching. Take heart. No one can possibly start off this way. My own advice might be to move to this more fluid and individualized way of thinking about teaching the first time when you are teaching a unit you all love. Kids will be pumped, you'll have enthusiasm, you can differentiate all over the place by interest, and just remember to keep the group coming back together again and again to process and add to the group's fund of knowledge. From individual to group and back again. Interdisciplinary units are a great practice venue for this more complex way of thinking about organization. Ch.
No Tears Over Tiers
Posted on July 20, 2005
Hi -- I'm not sure about the rest of you but I thought the discussion about Tiering was very fruitful today. The idea of having some kind of framework through which to engineer the complexity of the various levels is more important than having a specific framework in mind. Over the course of a career, I think everyone acquires what the researchers call "heuristics," personal ways of stucturing in this case, complexity. Our discussions were engaging and lively, I thought. I also appreciate the honesty with which we are revealing the King's clothes of DI ! Ch.
D1, Clarity of Syllabus and Assignments.
Posted on July 15, 2005
Now you've read (and heard, and talked through) the syllabus. What questions, reflections, comments do you have on the work you are facing? What can I do to help you get from here to "there." Charlie
Open Discussion
Posted on July 12, 2005
A place to talk about anything in the course. This entry is for ongoing topics of discussion, not those particularly related to any one class. Feel free to use it as you wish.