{"id":4,"date":"2016-01-28T17:01:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T22:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/eportfolio-sample\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2016-04-19T11:07:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T15:07:03","slug":"overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u201cLooking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.\u201d &#8211; Paulo Freire,\u00a0<em>Pedagogy of the Oppressed<\/em><span id=\"quote_book_link_72657\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Teachers work on the past and present to build for the future. I take this role very seriously.<\/p>\n<p>In this eFolio, you will find anecdotes and analysis, evidence and examples. The tabs above offer different themes of my teaching and learning this year as well as sections on student growth.<\/p>\n<p>For a general\u00a0overview, I recommend reading parts of the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/philosophy-growth\/\">Philosophy &amp; Growth<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/learning-teaching-portraits\/\">Teaching &amp; Learning<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/growth-in-student-learning\/\">Growth in Student Learning<\/a> sections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/01\/classroom.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-715\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-715 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/01\/classroom.jpg\" alt=\"classroom\" width=\"10800\" height=\"2338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/01\/classroom.jpg 10800w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/01\/classroom-300x65.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/01\/classroom-768x166.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/01\/classroom-1024x222.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/01\/classroom-250x54.jpg 250w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/01\/classroom-150x32.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 10800px) 100vw, 10800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a more engaging\u00a0way to show\u00a0students my teaching philosophy, I delivered them in a\u00a0rap (live in class) that I call &#8220;Literate.&#8221; I do not have film of this, but I do have the original recording, with lyrics below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"920\" height=\"690\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l9LJk2TYIkQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>LYRICS<\/p>\n<p>VERSE 1<br \/>\nHey yo: call fair and foul like the Macbeth witches.<br \/>\nRight now you\u2019re curled I\u2019m betting, \u2018cause you ain\u2019t yet found your niches.<br \/>\nA heart attack in fact now, you seem to lack that which is,<br \/>\nNow think it\u2019s ancient old when in fact it\u2019s timeless mock like Tupac.<br \/>\nMy English class has you talking trash;<br \/>\nI\u2019m pushing to combine to show you what it\u2019s like to mash<br \/>\nReading and write together, with Shakespeare mixed Jay and Drake<br \/>\nRead and write in English means explore, express, and to create.<br \/>\nWe just engage and now communicate, formulate, relate.<br \/>\nRead and write and indulge in the literacy work.<br \/>\nNow is the season for the read and write collaboration,<br \/>\nGlamorization of tools more used than saturation.<br \/>\nOur tall emphasis of narration<br \/>\nHits us home and school in the world tucked up in writer sanitation.<br \/>\nNow I declare some patience, we have the time to be us and the English:<br \/>\nTurn the page away from barren wasteland.<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<br \/>\nI\u2019m literate.<br \/>\nI see my word and world and take from it.<br \/>\nMy reading and writing in English means that I was meant for it.<br \/>\nNow I\u2019m tryna express a bit.<br \/>\nBut when I see the dots I\u2019m thinking connect \u2018em until the bulb\u2019s lit.<br \/>\nI\u2019m literate.<\/p>\n<p>VERSE 2<br \/>\nTrust it: I let communicate so I can rate the words in your big brain of late;<br \/>\nI got to know to know you to know how and why do we go.<br \/>\nWhy learn the English lessons? To talk to audience,<br \/>\nTo scaffold dense and hard writing to make it make more sense.<br \/>\nYour mindful hands around this pen and pad are knowing:<br \/>\nMake thoughts for you believable and never end that brain from growing.<br \/>\nEnglish ain\u2019t wimpy, it came from need to let communicate<br \/>\nDifferent and new takes on life and to see the word as fresh.<br \/>\nThe word rater, communicator, knowing caters, the simulator of data, write now and later;<br \/>\nIt\u2019s never been a hater, try the expression then to gain them<br \/>\nGo around and snatch all of the English and attain gem.<br \/>\nThis thesis can teach a student now to reach his<br \/>\nFull potential and to see and gain new perspectives through reading and writing<br \/>\nThat matters for the knowing, the valuing, communicating, ID constructing.<br \/>\nI\u2019m Entropy and today we\u2019re all meant to be\u2026<\/p>\n<p>[CHORUS]<\/p>\n<p>VERSE 3<br \/>\nIf you got evidence then don\u2019t be pensive but use it to commence,<br \/>\nYour hesitance is resident because someone said you shouldn\u2019t and said no.<br \/>\nSo I\u2019m assuring all that lack of confidence<br \/>\nThat there\u2019s a writer\u2019s will in you that always wants to free the zoo:<br \/>\nA metaphor, valued with a lion\u2019s heart.<br \/>\nWhat I want more of is a working world connector, a<br \/>\nBig articulator, whose will is practical, tactical,<br \/>\nWho can link the facts or work through ideas to put it back on track.<br \/>\nYou never valued school and class ain\u2019t cool, that isn\u2019t magical,<br \/>\nIt\u2019s English that will inspire, require the dire life tools.<br \/>\nIn fact I can\u2019t see, and can\u2019t imagine<br \/>\nSomeone who ain\u2019t a lover to read or a fan or writing;<br \/>\nIt\u2019s all about construction, the want to make a name on the subject to<br \/>\nStart to see how we value and build anew.<br \/>\nDo all you can do, \u2018cause once you give it up for good<br \/>\nYou\u2019re chanced to be and to become the saddest in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>[CHORUS] 2x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLooking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.\u201d &#8211; Paulo Freire,\u00a0Pedagogy of the Oppressed Teachers work on the past and present to build for the future. 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