Personal Information
- My name is Taylor!
- I am from Rochester, New York.
- This semester I am starting Pre-Student teaching and I am very excited about that as I will be at St. Dominics working in a third grade classroom. Currently on campus I am the Vice President of the Self Care Club and I am also involved in Campus Ministry. Over the summer I did an internship with the principal at a local high school back home in Rochester. In my spare time I like to spend time with my friends and family, scrapbook and volunteer.
Learning Style and more:
In order to feel comfortable taking intellectual and creative risks in the classroom, I have found that it is reliant on the culture and environment that surrounds me. If I am in a group of open minded people who are supportive of each other, I feel that I am more likely to open up and take a risk myself in sharing those ideas. I find that as a learner I also have a great dependence on guidelines and rubrics as they ultimately determine your grade. If those are written and presented in a way in which they are explicit while allowing myself and fellow students to take control and have the freedom over their word, that is beneficial to promote risk taking.
What have I been reading?
There are so many different areas of education that matter to me and that I want to incorporate into my classroom. There are also areas of education that matter to me that I want to help change. While this does not directly pertain to my interest/concern as a preservice teacher, it is one that I have been thinking a lot about throughout my field placements thus far. One particular area of education that continues to pique my interest is systemic change. While this has been a looming problem for years, I found that it gives tremendous insights into strategies that if maintained and invested in, can be put into place to help the problem so that we as young educators can be a part of this meaningful change.
http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/publications/systemic%20change%20for%20school%20improvement.pdf
Adelman, H. S., & Taylor, L. (2007). Systemic change for school improvement. Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation, 17(1), 55–77. https://doi.org/10.1207/s1532768Xjepc1701_3
Question for Dr. Shutkin:
Did you always aspire to be working with the college student population? If so, what do you like about teaching this population? If not, what was the journey that brought you here?
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