Narrative in Teaching & Learning - Belated Post

My apologies on being late with this posting; I misread DC’s requirements for the previous week.  As Lisa points out in her post, narrative is the essence of reflection.  Our personal experiences are deeply meaningful to us, and we need to provide opportunities for our students to become engaged in activities that make sense to them.  My Curriculum Educ 471 offered that enriching opportunity; we are asked to prepare two projects that held personal special meaning and support that with an educational rationale.

The first project was a geographical place that held meaning for us, and how we could integrate that place throughout our chosen grade curriculum, and the second project was an area that we felt should be included in the curriculum and why.  All of the presentations were extraordinary (and practical) because of the meaning we attached to them and highlighted the passion of the presenter. 

In my on-line Language Arts course, there was an assignment to create a found poem from a piece of text that deeply resonated with us.  We all had the opportunity to read each other’s moving and very creative poems.  The rationale behind the individual chosen texts was also interesting, often because we could connect with that text if we were familiar with it. 

Sagar offered up a good reading facilitation last week and had an interesting outside source...one area we discussed was how curriculum design could be affected by personality types.  Would a SJ type be more rigid and content driven vs. a NF type?