My work for Season 1 of the CPLC was to end in April with a reflection of one of the chapters from Joshua R. Eyler’s book How Humans Learn. With the shift to remote learning, this task dropped to the bottom of my list. Recently, I found time to start reading Eyler’s text and I…
Author: Elisabeth
What am I doing? A reflection on my CPLC goals
Next week, I attend the 100th Annual Meeting of the Association of Teacher Educators where I will share my perspective about being a member of the CPLC and how this learning community shapes my work with preservice teachers. As I prepare for this presentation, I think about the work that I engaged in during the…
A Year in Practice: Synthesis & Vision
I started this blog as a way to communicate my thinking as I worked with colleagues as part of the Cluster Pedagogy Learning Community (CPLC). We have spent the summer learning together about interdisciplinary, project-based learning, and open education or what we are calling Cluster Pedagogy. We met four times face-to-face as a group and…
CAMT & Tackling a Wicked Problem
A couple weeks ago, I presented at the Conference for the Advancement of Mathematics Teaching (CAMT) in San Antonio, TX. I have spent the last several years going to this conference because it gives me the opportunity to not only visit Texas, where I lived for 13 years, but also to learn from presenters from…
WPI’s Institute on Project-Based Learning & Gold Standard PBL
Last month I had the opportunity to go with a team of five colleagues to Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s (WPI) Institute on Project-Based Learning. This two and half day learning experience was intense. There were times of excitement and times when we were challenged. Although I knew that this type of conference would be different, I…
Praxis, Connections to Reflections of my Teaching
I recently finished reading the first section, Praxis, of An Urgency of Teachers: The Work of Critical Digital Pedagogy. As I turned the pages and read the words of Morris and Stommel, there were many times I found myself saying, “Yes, yes! This is something that I am working on in my teaching practice.” It…
Getting Started
I decided for my first post, I would simply include a quote that resonates with my thinking as I begin this journey with the Cluster Pedagogy Learning Community. “…an exercise of pedagogy that pushes past the walls of the classroom and into the complicated practice of being human” (Morris & Stommel, 2019, p. xv). An…