Mike
My blogs
| Industry | Education |
|---|---|
| Occupation | English educator |
| Introduction | I'm interested in the development of discussion- and writing-workshop-based teaching practices by pre-service secondary English teachers. Because these teaching practices invite the multiple social, cultural, and technological practices of students and teachers into classroom interactions, they involve unexpectedness. The unexpectedness of these practices is often difficult for teachers to learn to facilitate. My research addresses how discursive interactions during discussion and around writing frame these activities, providing unexpected affordances and constraints for teachers. |
| Interests | classroom discourse, multiliteracies, secondary English teacher preparation and development, dialogic instruction, improvisation |
| Favorite movies | E.T., The Dark Crystal, The Secret of My Success, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Roxanne, Trois Couleurs: Rouge, The Sixth Sense, Les Enfants du Paradis, Barton Fink, Sense and Sensibility, Wings of Desire, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Hours, Waking the Dead, Unbreakable, What Lies Beneath, Spirited Away, Love Actually |
| Favorite music | Keith Jarret, Martin Sexton, Maroon 5, Sweet Honey and the Rock, Bobby McFerrin, The Beatles |
| Favorite books | The Giant's House, Jane Eyre, Feed, Harry Potter, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek |