Georgia Hall
I have had the privledge to further my education and continue my life-long learner journey, with esteemed colleagues and professors at the High Tech High, Graduate School of Education. Throughout this journey, I have taken thought-provoking classes that have, at times, challenged my beliefs as an educator, pused me to take on different perspectives, and have always deepend my understandings within education. Here are summaries and links to these courses and work.
This course explores the implications of culture—particularly the relation between “home culture” and “school culture”—for teaching and learning. Participants consider their own backgrounds as well as the background experiences, values, and languages of diverse student groups. They discuss and apply structural and pedagogical approaches that provide both access and challenge for diverse learners. They examine the High Tech High design principles against the backdrop of inequitable academic outcomes in American schools. In particular, the course will focus on how teacher and student expectations affect student achievement, for better or worse. The final product describes concrete steps taken to address the essential questions for the course, and reflecting on the intersections between one’s own emerging identity, student diversity and school culture.
This course was an introduction to our new roles as teacher researchers. We began the process of exploring our fierce wonderings (academic curiosities), keeping track of our thoughts in an inquiry journal. The final project of the course was a written description of our schools (Setting Description), which will ultimately become the introduction for our thesis.
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This course explored the variety of ways to create more inclusive classroom environments. Our professor, Kay Flewelling and Azul Terronez, pushed us to think of differentiation as a "way of thinking, not necessarily a bag full of strategies." We focused on creating multiple entry points for diverse learners at various levels of readiness. Each grad student selected an activity/project in his/her class to document with an Unboxed article, capturing a moment and describing the process and our reflections. My project focused on student choice and choice.
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