Sunday, December 2, 2012

Transliteracy Plus: Going Beyond Education Design

Melding my research interests with educational content development and practice enables me to enact a variety of skills including:

  • continuing enrichment of content knowledge and resources
  • deep understanding of student learning, instructional strategies and classroom management
  • empowerment of educational stakeholders, partnerships, and improved learning environments
  • advocacy for rights and responsibilities in educational settings
  • leadership in the school team, and in curriculum development and implementation
  • ability to connect assessment (formative and summative) and achievement

In my 18 years of progressive educational design and teaching experience I have refined various qualities including:
  • assessment and evaluation
  • development of signature pedagogies
  • deep vs. surface learning (moving from surface learning to deep learning promotes life-long learning and problem solving in unfamiliar contexts)
  • creative and engaging  lesson planning
  • incorporating student feedback to change content and/or methods 
  • learning objectives (class content) vs outcomes and competencies (what students will be able to accomplish)
  • learning design (both the process of design = planning, structuring, sequencing; and the product = documentation, report, plan, structure) to better guide pedagogic practice
  • TEL (Technology Enhanced Learning) and integration of educational technologies 
  • supporting student success

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