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Employable Attitude for Teacher Reform School
Here’s a job requirement for an Assistant Professor of a graduate school: High level of zest, grit, hope, gratitude, and humor. Got it. Check out the ads. This institution has apparently been under scrutiny for its unorthodox way of training teachers. They are not grounded in heavy educational theories from the start. The focus is placed on practice in the field. NYT article. What do you think of this approach? Practice first, and then go to the theory? Or theory first, then practice. Arguable.
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Emotional Connection
Affective development, affect-sensitive learning environments, affective experiences. These are huge research areas, but specifically for now, I’m interested in emotional engagement because knowledge (and/or cognitive potential) alone is inadequate at producing change in behaviors or attitudes. In conceptualizing my dissertation, now and before, emotional engagement has always been one of the areas I am interested in exploring. I stumbled upon Chris Koch’s posting on building emotional engagement for B2B marketing. It added a layer to my thinking about my dissertation. My earlier posts had indicated that I’m conceptualizing the use…
