What is motivation? We learned about behaviorist theory in education classes. B.F. Skinner said we should concern ourselves with observable behavior be it desired, compliant, or disruptive. Tie those behaviors to extrinsic motivators and classrooms should function perfectly–as long as the motivators are attainable and the desired behaviors are well-defined. So what happens when neither […]
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When Weather Hits
Partnership Placements Our district-university partnership for teacher preparation presents me the opportunity to teach my spring English methods course in a local high school every Tuesday. The embedded field experience hours (practice) interplay with the theoretical readings and other assignments (praxis) to better prepare candidates as practitioners. This clinical model depends on the high school […]
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School Partnership Beginnings
Persistently Reaching Out Since November of 2017, the director of educator preparation and I had been working to find spring placements for my five secondary English education candidates in one school setting. In previous semesters, candidates had been scattered across area school districts that were demographically, culturally, and often pedagogically different from one another. With […]
