Title: Teaching Others / Teaching Self: My life as a teacher.
1. Now.
The girl in class.
Why choose this story to begin? What it shows about the decisions I make and the methods I employ as a teacher.
beliefs
method/strategies
effects on them, effects on me
Where did I learn all this stuff. What were the influences.
The Roadmap
The Drawing
Significant Points and Surrounding Contexts
Social – the “times” and their effect
Pedagogical – where I learned about teaching
Personal – baggage I brought to the task
Positioning – privileged white male
2. Early programming.
Pictures in the red book.
School memories.
Miss Kendrick’s fourth grade.
The migrant kids.
High School earth science.
Lots of activities.
Throwing up student council experiences.
Pam.
TV and the Bus Boycott
3. College
Going to college. Boxed in. No choices.
Harvard
Rochester
Cuba
Time of threat.
Growing up in the cold war.
Intellectual growth: the truth of multiple perspectives.
What comes after?
The inevitability of fighting or alternative service after graduation.
The rejection, the bounce, UTPP.
4. Learning to Teach: teaching as a social justice mission
UTPP
What’s good money?
Marching in Montgomery.
GLS
CST
5. The Move To Vermont
Cleveland or Burlington: was this a choice
What informed me then.
early childhood
kindergarten classes
Apex
6. Vermont
Multiage
Political Encroachment
The Standards Board
the promise
the fall
political games in the name of equity
Standards and Curriculum
Barnes: the decision
7. Complex Instruction
working with dottie
data informed
structured inquiry
interdependence
uncertainty
delegating authority
status – focus where it should be
emphasis on the “all”
it works
the girl in class
empowering my students, empowering me.
8. Epilogue – Uncovering my hidden curriculum
gender and race
what I’ve come to know
the me others say I am
the me I say I am
keeping on, with ever larger senses
contact, relationship, growing through others