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Category Archives: Interdisciplinary
ISAS Day 1
It was good to see colleagues from other schools whom I get to see only too rarely these days. It was also interesting to hear so many of my basic principles of teaching from the last many years affirmed by … Continue reading
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“Declaring victory”
Although the phrase “declaring victory” leaves a bad taste in the mouths of those old enough to remember Richard Nixon’s having done so in Vietnam (and even in younger people who remember the second George Bush having done so in … Continue reading
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Designing a course
I am a strong proponent of backward design: it seems to me, as the saying goes, that if you don’t know where you’re going, you’re unlikely to get there. When planning a course, I like either to have stated explicitly for … Continue reading
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ICG
Went to Austin to give a talk this week at St. Stephen’s at an ICG (Independent Curriculum Group) sponsored workshop that served as St. Stephen’s inservice–a very clever idea, btw. I was set up to talk both on integrating AP … Continue reading
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What is School For…Really?
Found this on The Presbyterian School’s website when I was looking for something else. It’s an excerpt from a blog of Seth Godin’s. I liked it so much I went to his blog and found lots of other interesting, pithy … Continue reading
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At the edges..
I’ve been looking over a set of materials for an “American Studies” course provided by a colleague, and I can see why some English teachers wouldn’t like them. It’s basically a history course with readings that are a mix of … Continue reading
Interdisciplinarity and politics
I just heard Mayor Annise Parker speak in Chapel, and of the many interesting things she said, the one that’s most relevant to this thread is the following comment. “Every day, I face problems I’ve never seen before, and I … Continue reading
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Moving upward
In the last post we “got down to basics,” moving from the beautiful flowering tree of my teaching (lol) to the sturdy trunk and then root system. Now, however, we’re going to do a little genetic recombination (or grafting, perhaps) … Continue reading
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Getting down to basics
During a long conversation with Jeff Ritter and Lori MacConnell at lunch yesterday, I discovered a number of interesting things. One of them was a clearer articulation of what I’m trying to do in my teaching, no matter what the … Continue reading
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Institutionalizing individual strengths
Another subject I’m starting to think about as I think about interdisciplinary teaching as well as other kinds of (I think) desirable approaches to teaching is how one institutionalizes individual strengths. It strikes me that ultimately that will be the … Continue reading
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