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“All experiences last a long time in profound people.”

-Nietzsche

Description : In this individual reflective activity, you will return to your critical incident narrative in the style of your choice. Based on required and recommended course readings/resources and peer sharing exercises, you will re-visit, re-tell, re-interpret, and critically reflect on a key experience. Your reflections may include insights drawn from several of the following: required and recommended course readings/resources, examples in your professional practice and personal experience, class activities and conversations, and other relevant empirical resources, as well as a commentary on your professional development as a future teacher. You are not required to come to final conclusions or solutions, but rather you are asked to deepen your understandings of the incident and to consider possibilities for future action.

Due dates:

Listening Circle Sharing : Wednesday, June 15th in class (ungraded).

Peer Editing : Wednesday, June 15th in class (ungraded).

Written assignment: Monday, June 20th at midnight (20%).

The purpose of the written assignment is to enable students to:

1. Develop an individual area of expertise within history and philosophy of education that is tailored to personal interests and areas of inquiry

2. Critically reflect on your experience through the lens of particular theories in the history and philosophy of education, thus

3. Deepen your ability to understand and articulate the connections between educational theory and teaching practice

Required elements:

· A 3-5 minute oral sharing of your developing interpretations in a class Listening Circle.

· The original critical incident must be included at the beginning of this assignment. It may be included in its original format, re-written and adjusted, or summarized, in order to set the context for the re-telling.

· A written narrative that weaves autobiographical story with theoretical insights.

Assessment:

The presentation will be assessed based on whether the work does not meet criteria (C+ or lower = F), meets most criteria (B-, B), clearly fulfills most (B+) or all (A-) criteria, or exceeds all criteria (A or A+). Narrative feedback will be provided.

The criteria for the written project are as follows:

Content Criteria:

· Supports interpretation of the critical incident with specific and convincing examples from professional practice and personal experience, class activities and conversations, required and recommended course readings/resources, and other relevant empirical resources, as appropriate to the topic.

· Grounds the contemporary incident in a thorough understanding of significant issues, authorial perspectives, historical and philosophical contexts.

· Explores significant and lingering questions within the critical incident, and comes to well-reasoned interpretations, testing them against theoretical understandings and criteria gleaned from the above sources.

form Criteria:

· The written piece is organized into a logical, reasonable, engaging and persuasive sequence.

· The written piece employs a style of representation that is appropriate and engaging for the chosen subject matter.

· Employs strong narrative voice, technically correct language usage and accurate APA referencing, where applicable.

EDUC 5020 Latremouille Spring 2016