Reflective Poem

Reflective Poem

Moss laden pathways filled with the scent of skunk cabbage

These are the highways of my youth

Transporting me from abandoned log cabin to mud drenched cave

Free to scavenge, discover, create, imagine.

I was given many gifts.

The gift of freedom, of challenge, of accomplishment.

Opportunity to grow and show what I was capable of

Opportunity to try and fail with support to fall back on

Never meant to feel like a failure or that I needed to try harder

Back home, a warm house filled with love and laughter

Tireless parents who always managed to find time for me

I was never a burden, never an inconvenience,

Extended family surrounded me. Bringing excitement and connection

A cultural connection. I was always one but tied to another.

I wanted simple tuna sandwiches but ate eggplant parmigana at lunch

Feeling like I was part of one culture but reminded daily that I was part of another

I disliked it. I grappled with it. Now it is something that I cherish

I teach. I am part culture, part freedom, part adventure, part responsibility

I want to support, respect and challenge

Assistance without

What was your most wonderful learning experience?

What was your least wonderful learning experience?

What do you try to do as an educator?

What kind of ecology? What are you really trying to do as an educator?

Philosophy /orientation to education

How does the learner guide the educator?

Where are you now as a Learner? As an educator?

Coles Notes to Inquiry

1) Introduction:

Background to the Story

-Personal /Professional Relevance

-Experiencial/ Theoretical Perspective

(What is your disposition/ Where do you feel comfortable)

2) The Question : Focus of Inquiry

Rationale

3) Literature Review

What is the curriculum stuff is situating you in the larger field of education

Situate yourself in the literature/ methadology

Situatie and question at the intersection of - these bodies of knowledge around your topic

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4) Methadology / Situate

Qualitative / Quatitative Paradigm

(ie. Qualitative Arts Based Narrative Researcher)

You can do mixed Method.

Action Research is part of PAR Participatory Action Research

Case Study

5. Method: Research Design

a) Do Reading

Interviewing

Sites of Inquiry (Where are you going to do the work) (ie. Your own reading / Interview with teachers

Self: Reading / Writing

In you class/ With your students: Interviewing

b) Data: What is my data?

6) Data Analysis : What are my learnings/ Synthesis

7) Findings (what you see/ what you observe/ What you have wondered about

8) Discussion

9) Look at the implications of it.

10) Future direction/ future questions

Look up: Holistic Education

Poem

Where I am from

What is my philosophy of Education

Where am I going