Aug
19
They are finnally here!
August 19, 2007 | | Leave a Comment
Well, our students started this last week! It is extremely exciting to see this all come together. Aside for the exhausted staff and the wonderful preparation they have all done for the orientation workshops for the students my mind is now running at full speed to the course design. I have been thinking and thinking about how exciting and important it is to take advantage of the clean slate we have at our school.
I would like my students to have a hand in creating an environment where they can become positive additions to the body of knowledge we will be studying. I would like them to be invested in the process of discovery and not just looking to get the work done. I drool over the prospect that while engaged in the process of researching, reflecting, discussing, and analysis they become contributors to the field. I hope they take a stand and become an active member of a larger body of knowledge. (After writing this post I jumped over to Mr. Konrad Glogowski’s blog of proximal development and it seem as if he is reading my mind and says it all and more much more eloquently – he even used the same video I was planning on using.)
This last week has made it apparent that we are working with a very savvy and talented student body, most of which have some sort of resentment built up in them about their past educational experiences (rightly so – I still am a bit resentful of my own experiences). If we feed them from the same table and with the same spoon they have always eaten from I fear they turn around and gobble us up.
This week I hope to create, with the help of our TECH folks, a login page for our students to access their future blogs. The more this starts to come together the more it seems needs to be done.
