Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
I am back, still busy
Well, now that my Google ID and password are all straightened out...I hope to get back to chatting with you all again. It is hard to believe that it has been a year since I first made a blog. And since then...I am doing a capstone project (sort of like a professional protfolio), and I am all finished with coursework...and I (should) graduate on May 8, 2011! (not that I'm paying attenton or anything)
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
so what's wrong with being bilingual?
Call it The Curse of the Idealistic Teacher. I am enrolled in a Foundations of Bilingual/Multicultural Education course and have begun my course readings. A thought...'people' are always saying "we need to compete with other countries" and "our school system is way behind other countries", etc etc. What people lose in the mix is that in other countries, bilingualism (if not trilingualism) is learned by students and practiced by citizens. Why are we so eager to enroll preschoolers in foreign language classes but those who come here have to put away their 'foreign' language and only speak English? Yes, my grandfather (Dziadzi) came from Poland with barely a 3d grade education and learned to speak English, as did my mother and her siblings.But...her primary language for instruction (math, reading, science et al) was Polish, and she attended 'English' classes as part of her school day. What's more, store signs were in Polish and English, Masses were in Polish and English, and community gatherings were especially in Polish rather than English. Yes, my Mom did master English by the time she went to high school...so why should we expect anything different of newer immigrants to this country? I invite any of you to join in this discussion with a _rational_ commentary based upon research findings or personal experience. Even if you do not agree with me, I would like to hear from you as well. A work in progress...
Friday, June 25, 2010
great news!
My proposal for a poster session at the ASHA Convention at Philadelphia in November 2010 was accepted! My proposal is on pre/post-test measures of intelligibility and auditory discrimination with my pronunciation students at RIT.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
the Ethical Mind
Last but not least...Gardner has the Ethical Mind. He feels this is a higher level of abstraction than the Respectful Mind, as it is about "what do {you} do when it's not in {your} best interest?" It is about conceptualizing oneself as a (good) worker and a (good )citizen, and knowing what the responsibilities are of each. Gardner describes the ENA of 'good work' as being Excellent (being an expert, with work of high quality), Ethical (socially responsible, moral), and Engaging (knowing one's work is meaningful, and being intrinsically motivated because of that). In the digital age, it means 'how to become a (good) cyber citizen.'
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