Dec 29th, 2009
Once upon a time, when I was a graduate student at Boston College, I studied under a professor named Dr. Michael Schiro. He had published a book called Curriculum Theory: Conflicting Visions and Enduring Concerns. In that book, he spells out four “conflicting” theories of curriculum. I won’t detail them here other than to say [...]
Sep 30th, 2009
I’m teaching a course called The Politics of Education to an awesome group of our doctoral students this semester. The wiki/syllabus (a living, breathing document) is located HERE. You can participate and help my students’ (and my own) learning in a couple of ways. First, tagging…anything that you think might be related to what the [...]
Mar 19th, 2009
I am part of a team of professors facilitating the learning in an Ed.D. program for a group of sitting school administrators in a local school division. I am currently leading a module on decision-making and resource allocation within the realm of educational technology. This Saturday, I have a pretty unique opportunity (for me at [...]
Oct 3rd, 2008
No point in re-creating the wheel, so I’ve copied the e-mail I sent to my faculty colleagues below (he only difference is that I embedded my teaser video into this post instead of just providing a link): *** Dearest colleagues, If I told you that there is an extraordinary educational conference that you can attend [...]
Jul 21st, 2008
If you’ve ever taken a college or graduate level course, surely you’ve completed some kind of summative evaluation form at the end of the semester. At Hofstra University, where I worked for 5 years before this past academic year, we called them CTRs (Course and Teacher Ratings). They consisted of a bunch of Likert scale [...]