PEDABLOGUEA personal inquiry into the scholarship of teaching by Michael Arnzen"Student Outcomes": Karissa Kilgore- June 25, 2008 "Student Outcomes" is a new, ongoing series of interviews with my former students who are now living life after college. Considering how much of our work is based on the assumption that "learning outcomes" will be met, I thought it would be a good way to catch up with them...http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MikeArnzen/025746 Is Reading to Students Bad- June 19, 2008 The forums over at Teacher Magazine have a great conversation going on right now about the advantages and disadvantages of reading text aloud to students in the classroom. Apparently a high school teacher was given a hard time by his administrators, who overheard him and felt he was talking down...http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MikeArnzen/025733 Writing in the Book- June 12, 2008 I adored reading Christian Long's recent article, "Mapping Literary Highlights, Highlighting Literary Maps" at think:lab yesterday. In it, he talks about adopting a class rule that students write in the margins of their books: Nothing says, "Yes, English class rocks!", than the early-in-the-year lesson on highlighting our books. Like a...http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MikeArnzen/025718 The Kindergarchy (or, Too Much Love in the Home, Not Enough Pain in the Class)- June 9, 2008 Are we bending under the oppressive rule of children Do kids have too much power There are days, I think, when every teacher wonders this, even at the college level. Dennis Jerz posts a good response to this idea, particularly in terms of catholic teaching, as raised by Joseph Epstein...http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MikeArnzen/025708 Ghoulish Goals: Pittsburgh Professional Magazine Feature- June 6, 2008 I'm humbled to be featured in the June issue of Pittsburgh Professional Magazine, and they've kindly given me permission to post a .pdf of the article on my horror website. To check it out, visit: "Ghoulish Goals: Seton Hill writing professor keeps collecting awards for his horror fiction" by...http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MikeArnzen/025696 Jazzy Teaching: Improv, Collaboration and Expertise- June 1, 2008 I was browsing through a list of open source academic journals on the web this morning and found Critical Studies in Improvisation -- a journal of music and performance theory, mostly -- whose latest issue Vol 3, No 2 (2007) is a Special Issue on Improvisation and Pedagogy. Having studied...http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MikeArnzen/025683 |