Professional Development
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Making Learning Visible: Reflection for 2022
At the end of the term, reflection mode commences. One activity that I planned to regularly incorporate was the SAIL activity (Share-Ask-Ideas-Learned). I used SAIL for all my student workers this term. For…
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Making Learning Visible Reflection and Resources
For our team’s professional learning this summer, we read The Power of Making Learning Visible by Ron Ritchart and Mark Church, published in 2020. I liked the structure of the book, with each…
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New Year, New Beginnings
January is my favorite time to think about the previous year. Maybe it’s the feeling that a new year means a new start or just that the holiday rush has subsided and my…
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Learning about Maine’s Wabanaki
As an undergrad, I took an English course focused on Maine writers and Maine stories. The course was called “Many Maines,” and it was the first time I encountered tribal stories from the…
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2020 Professional Development
Because of the pandemic, 2020 brought me more opportunities to learn and grow. Below are the highlights of experiences and texts that have helped me to reconsider my ideas and behaviors and to…
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FLC Reflection and Final Project Report
Photo credits for Pacific octopus (blue) and camouflaged octopus: Public Domain by NOAA’s National Ocean Service Project Overview The focus of my project work for our faculty learning community (FLC) has been to…
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FLC Project and Resources
I have started researching to see how programs are incorporating peer review into their ePortfolio practices. This summer in a nursing course, I was able to work with one cohort of students on…
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2020 and BLM
This year has been more dynamic than any I can remember. To better understand racism in America, I have been reading and listening. I have lived in America for my whole life, and…
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Reflections on iGen
I first encountered Jean Twenge’s research in her 2017 Atlantic article “Has the Smart Phone Destroyed a Generation?” and soon incorporated it into my English 110 class as a reading connected to my…
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Reflections on Teaching Metacognition
For professional development, my colleagues and I are reading McGuire’s Teach Students How to Learn, a book about strategies for helping students learn to be successful students. McGuire brings years of experience teaching…
