I have a feeling The Framing Experience serves another, covert purpose in the MAT@USC curriculum. I have no proof of this, but I suspect this course is partially meant to weed out people who aren’t serious about the program. Getting through the MAT@USC in one year is no small accomplishment. If you think you’ll be able to breeze through it, guess again.
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Taking it Personally: Emotion in On-Line Classrooms
One of the most intense and powerful class experiences of my life came in an unexpected way: on-line. One of the first classes taken in the MAT@USC program is 517A: Understanding the Social Context of Urban Schools. For this class, 23% of the grade involves posting in on-line forums. For the majority of the course, I was …
What does it mean to be a teacher?
What does it mean to be a teacher? I suppose it didn’t occur to me to ask this question when I made my decision to embark upon my journey to become a teacher because I didn’t perceive teaching as a very philosophical endeavor. I thought that teaching English would be about 1) passing on knowledge about literature, 2) correcting essays and …
It’s Complicated
I want to share the fun and hard work that has gone into organizing my first lesson plan. EDUC-534, Integrating Social Studies and English into Secondary Classrooms, calls for the planning and implementation of three lessons as a mini-unit. Somehow, the process of putting together my first lessons has been more complicated, yet at the same time, easier than I …
