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Erin Ogden
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Bridging Differences: Diane Ravitch tells us "Why Business Leaders Should Not Be in the Driver's Seat"
It doesn't really surprise me that this is how things are right now. Before making the decision to pursue a career in education, I was a business student and found it altogether unpalatable. While ...
Tagged: factory+model, business, reform, Bridging+Differences, Ravitch
Replied Dec 6
Sean Nash's blogpost: "Tinkering: A 'Boys Only' Club?"
I had several classmates from high school go to Reed. I think it's probably a great school, but definitely not for me. If I could go back and do college all over again, I would have gone to a diffe...
Tagged: tinkering, gender+differences, Nash
Replied Dec 3
Sean Nash's blogpost: "Tinkering: A 'Boys Only' Club?"
Evergreen State College has as system much like what you describe. Only instead of hiding the grades from the students, there simply are no grades. Instead you get credit hours based on the work yo...
Tagged: tinkering, gender+differences, Nash
Replied Dec 1
"Selling Lesson Plans Online, Teachers Raise Cash and Questions"
Sooner or later textbooks will go digital. There are a few now out digitally, and I think as sales figures prove their desirability in digital formats, we'll start seeing more and more of them go d...
Tagged: lesson+plans
Replied Nov 29
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Yes, the National Review identifies itself as a conservative news, commentary and opinion source. It's been around since the 1950's when it was founded by William F. Buckley Jr. with the express purpose of providing a respectable outlet for conser...
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If you too have some interesting ephemera...
It doesn't really surprise me that this is how things are right now. Before making the decision to pursue a career in education, I was a business student and found it altogether unpalatable. While I enjoyed my classmates and the overall learning c...
I had several classmates from high school go to Reed. I think it's probably a great school, but definitely not for me. If I could go back and do college all over again, I would have gone to a different school altogether, one with a traditional gra...
Evergreen State College has as system much like what you describe. Only instead of hiding the grades from the students, there simply are no grades. Instead you get credit hours based on the work you did in the class (pass/fail--if you did the work...
Sooner or later textbooks will go digital. There are a few now out digitally, and I think as sales figures prove their desirability in digital formats, we'll start seeing more and more of them go digital. For one, the cost of printing certain text...
It seems to me that most of the hoopla over teachers selling their lesson plans is coming from the districts who aren't getting a cut of the profit, and are suddenly deciding to flex their muscles a bit and claim ownership over the lesson plans. C...
Me too! I've been thinking about what it looks like to "tinker" while writing or reading. English is really such an odd subject to teach because there's only so many ways you can read a book and write an essay. But one thing that prompted me to wa...
Well, I don't know about you, but I always got impatient w/ tinkering as a child. I hated being told to figure it out for myself rather than having someone just explain it to me. Of course, it didn't help that whenever I DID tinker, I'd get into t...
Hi there
I'm no expert on this, but I've got a few ideas you might find to be worth exploring. You're really brave to be facing this head-on like this because under the surface of her not speaking is a big emotional problem that she's not getting...
It is encouraging to hear that you've been able to move past all the frustrations as a teacher--those are what gave me pause. I think it's just been that I keep coming back to teaching in one form or another that's really solidified that for me.
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I think this article perfectly expresses what I fear most about entering into the teaching profession. I've wanted to become a teacher for a long time now, but have hesitated at various points for a variety of reasons. Some of those reasons were p...
So often I've heard such negative things about teaching, and it's been a little discouraging. But what little teaching I've done, once I got over the "Oh dear lord, I'm teaching!" jitters, has been exactly what you all describe here--not perfect, ...
I've been endlessly fascinated by language for as long as I can remember. This fact seemed to elude my parents as I grew up, perhaps because I also had a limited talent for scientific inquiry (turns out it was the statistical analysis and logic th...
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- Tell about your involvement in education, and your ideals for collegial sharing
- I'm beginning the process of becoming an English teacher, and am excited to belong to a community where I can explore and learn more about what it means to be a teacher. I've been interested in pedagogy and the theories that support various educational strategies since participating in the IB Programme in high school, but for the first time I am now looking at education from a different perspective.
- About Me:
- I'm currently finishing my MA in Linguistics and beginning the process of becoming an English teacher. My passion is for language, and I've studied French and Swiss German, and beginning Latin and Attic Greek. I also have a casual interest in Icelandic and Scots Gaelic, though more from a linguistic point of view rather than a practical communicative point of view. Aside from that, I also have fun with video games, writing fiction, and reading popular young adult fiction.
Erin Ogden's Blog
Reflections on language, science, and a tangent
I've been endlessly fascinated by language for as long as I can remember. This fact seemed to elude my parents as I grew up, perhaps because I also had a limited talent for scientific inquiry (turns out it was the statistical analysis and logic that I was good at, but not really science as a whole), so I was encouraged in other directions. This made making a decision about what major I wanted very difficult, made choosing a career subsequently just as difficult, and in many ways, though I have s… Continue
Posted on October 16, 2009 at 7:06am —
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- At 9:43am on October 15, 2009,
Or-Tal Kiriati said…
- Hello Erin,
Language and linguistics! One of my favorite topics! I used my knowledge and understanding of languages when I was inventing names for businesses and products...
But now I am more into games and education, and would love to hear what you have to share about it.
Welcome!
- At 11:40pm on October 11, 2009,
Ian Carmichael said…
- Hi Erin,
Welcome to the community. What a wide range of interests and enthusiasms you have and can bring to enrich us. Please join in wherever, whenever. If it's not here, please start it (ah, within the bounds of Fireside's purpose!)
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