~Lovely Logophile
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Consulting |
| Occupation | Peak Performance & Executive Coaching, Literacy & Reading Specialist |
| Location | Durham, North Carolina, United States |
| Introduction | This fall marks my 16th year in the field of literacy education. I am a career educator (and student). I received my Bachelors of Art degrees in English and Middle Grades Education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a minor in political science. I later attended East Carolina University where I received a Masters in Library & Information Science. I am currently a PhD student, studying performance & motivation. In addition to teaching and learning, I am a working artist. I perform locally on a regular basis and am currently working on a poetry and spoken word album. My goals as an educator and an artist are: *To enable learners to engage fully and converse fluently with the concepts an author presents in a written text. *To enable learners to employ metacognitive strategies which help them to link new concepts to their previous understandings and thereby improve retention, application, and synthesis. *To enable learners to develop the skill set necessary to think creatively, reflectively, critically, and divergently. |
| Favorite books | *Pedagogy of the Oppressed, P.Freire *Introduction to Andragogy & Pedagogy,M. Conner *In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, A. Walker * A History of the Adult Education Movement in the USA, M. Knowles *Personal & Executive Coaching, J.Auerbach *Instructional Coaching, J.Knight |
Never mind the turtle. Don't you think you're sure to win?
It may be improbable, but so long as its possible, I will believe...