Carrie’s TEBlog

After reading Labaree I completely saw how the educational system was set up the way he said it was. I never realized that there were such concrete goals in education. I see though now how it is set up to try to achieve democratic equality, social efficiency, and social mobility. It just amazes me how [...]

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After reading “Critical Thinking and Critical Pedagogy,” I am a little unsure what I think about them. I think that they are good ideas which contain their own flaws. I truly liked critical pedagogy because it is more about taking action. It says that critical thinking is about finding a passion to search for reasons, [...]

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I definitely identify with the pragmatism philosophy and fully support it. As I read about it all I could think is that this was describing exactly how I want to teach. It stresses using the scientific method and problem solving. I want to teach math so I can teach problem solving skills. I think they [...]

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After reading the article “Defensive Teaching and Classroom Control”, I was kind of upset by the Variations and Differences section. It, for one, totally contradicted all of the Brophy readings and what we learned in previous teaching courses. At the same time it did not surprise me. Teachers have so much on their plates, why [...]

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            I find reading the Secondary Classroom Management book extremely helpful. It gives great real advice that I think would be easy to apply in a classroom setting. Often time’s readings give good theory and so forth, but it is hard to see how it would play out in a real classroom. One of the [...]

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I enjoyed reading “Socializing Uninterested or Alienated Students” because I think many students feel this way. I saw a lot of peers in high school that thought school was a waste of time and did not see it as a meaningful part of their lives. Brophy called these students apathetic and said they lacked the [...]

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            I was extremely interested in the quote “failure learning students, especially those with helplessness symptoms, do not so much need a steady diet of success as they need to learn how to cope with frustration and failure productively” from the article Rebuilding Discouraged Students. I think this pertains a lot to what I will [...]

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            I thought that the “Supporting Students’ Confidence as Learners” was a great article. I agree with what it talks about in regards to motivation and goal setting. I have always thought that goal setting is important. Also looking for ways to keep students motivated is an extremely important task for high school teachers. I [...]

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            I think the requirement of an online course for high school students is a great idea. It is true that computers and internet are a fast growing part of society. People use them day to day and need growing knowledge about them. By requiring students to take an online class, they are exposing them [...]

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            Lankshear and Knobel had an interesting article; however, I sometimes get fed up with reading about the ‘new’. Every idea and program keeps having new things added to it. I understand we are learning better ways to teach and think about teaching, yet it seems to me to become over kill. It is just [...]

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