GSE English Logic and Writing

1. GSE English Logic and Writing Week 4 ~

2. Today’s Class • Philosophy Statements of Education for your 5 paragraph essay • Paragraph Pattern 9 • Writing Time

4. Statement of Teaching Philosophy • Also called… • Philosophy Statement of Education • Teaching Statement • Philosophy of Education • Most teachers in English speaking countries have to write and update over the years • Sometimes required for Colleges of Education • Required for jobs • Generally 1-3 pages in length • Explains what you as a teacher think about teaching, learning, student goals, and professional development • Changes over time

5. Chism’s Five Components of a Teaching Statement • Conceptualization of learning • Conceptualization of teaching • Goals for students • Implementation of the philosophy • Professional growth plan • In other words… • How do people learn? • How do I facilitate that learning? • What goals do I have for my students? • Why do I teach the way that I do? • What do I do to implement these ideas about teaching and learning in the classroom? • Are these things working? Do my student meet the goals? • How do I know they are working? • What are my future goals for growth as a teacher?

6. Statement of Teaching Philosophy • Teach students to be international citizens – to be proud of their own culture, and have curiosity in learning about other cultures • English is a tool to connect with people around the world and should be treated as a language that is dynamic, exciting, multifaceted, and international • A language cannot be taught without teaching the culture(s) its found in • There is no one “correct” English; instead there are multiple Englishes • Exposure, active engagement and reflection is key

7. Analogy • The process of transferring information or meaning from a particular subject (the analogue or source) to another particular subject • an atom to a solar system • a person is like a rock • a person is like a fish out of water

8. Analogy • Draws comparisons between items that appear to have little in common • Differs from comparison and contrast paragraphs because: • only deals with comparison • tends to compare very different things • You can draw analogies between People/ Places/ Ideas/ Events, etc.

9. The Bedford Reader (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008), explains the difference: You might show, in writing a comparison and contrast, how San Francisco is quite unlike Boston in history, climate, and predominant life-styles, but like it in being a seaport and a city proud of its own (and neighboring) colleges. That isn't the way an analogy works. In an analogy you yoke together two unlike things (eye and camera, the task of navigating a spacecraft and the task of sinking a putt), and all you care about is their major similarities.

10. Ants are like humans Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into wars, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves. The families of weaver ants engage in child labor, holding their larvae like shuttles to spin out the threat, and sews the leaves together for their fungus gardens. They exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television. -Lewis Thomas, “On Societies as Organism”

11. Pupils are like oysters Pupils are more like oysters than sausages. The job of teaching is not to stuff them and then seal them up, but to help them open and reveal the riches within. There are pearls in each of us, if only we knew how to cultivate them with ardor and persistence. (Sydney J. Harris, "What True Education Should Do," 1964)

12. "For some people, reading a good book is like a Calgon bubble bath--it takes you away. . . .“ (Kris Carr, Crazy Sexy Cancer Survivor, 2008) "To me, patching up a heart that'd had an attack was like changing out bald tires. They were worn and tired, just like an attack made the heart, but you couldn't just switch out one heart for another. . . .“ (C. E. Murphy, Coyote Dreams, 2007) "Falling in love is like waking up with a cold--or more fittingly, like waking up with a fever. . . .“ (William B. Irvine, On Desire, 2006) "Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo." (Don Marquis)

13. Ways to start an analogy paragraph _____ are (so much) like _____ The resemblance between ______ and _____ is… _____ are more like _____ than ______ Instead of ______, (your subject) is more like _______ ______ is not usually associated with ______ but…. Grading papers is like going for a jog. It’s really hard to get started, but once I do, the benefits strongly outweigh any initial discomfort. To be able to read my students’ ideas and to get a sense of their English ability is as useful in both making plans for my class, as well as figuring out what kinds of lessons my students need most…

14. Homework • Start thinking about your 5 paragraph essay, namely the content of your 3 body paragraphs