Weekly Post Description

Weekly Post (Due Friday by midnight—A group even weeks, B group odd weeks): You will be required to respond electronically through the TMA 457 class media blog to the weekly reading assignments.  Amy will post a guiding question that you should respond to (although the most important part of the assignment is to demonstrate your own ability to analyze and evaluate the reading from your personal context so you might move past the question to topics that were important to you or demonstrate your further understanding of the reading and viewing.) 

In addition to considering the questions posed the writer should evaluate the reading material in terms of its pedagogical value, and should also pose questions with their own tentative answers to the readings, or compare the ideas in one set of readings to previous course readings or something they read outside of class.  A quality post will demonstrate

1) that you have carefully read the assigned readings, 

2) that you have considered their implications for public schooling at large, and that 

3) you have thought about what this means for your own classroom practice. 

These responses will be very important because they will help shape our class discussions and elucidate individual ideological stances in the class at large. Your responses should be approximately 500-1000 words in length and must be posted by midnight each Friday so that classmates can read them and respond before class on Monday.

Weekly Post Response (Due Saturday by midnight—B group even weeks, A group odd weeks)

This post is your personal response to a blog post written by another class member. A quality post will 1) acknowledge and respond to the points made by the class member, 2) demonstrate your own clear understanding of the reading, and 3) develop further insights about what this reading means for classroom practice in general. Your responses should be approximately 500-1000 words in length and must be posted by midnight each Saturday so that we can discuss them in class on Monday.