Gardner,+Brittaney+Rose

Brittaney's Reflection Letter
=My Literacy=

Brittaney's Wintergirls Book Rationale

Adolescent Literature Paper

Linguistic Facts for PowerPoint Presentation

=My Students' Literacy=

Narrative Poetry Unit Proposal

Narrative Poetry Unit

Wintergirls Preliminary Thematic Unit

=My Professional Development=

Annotated Bibliography for Engl 408

Brittaney's Teacher Research Proposal

Brittaney's MCTE Conference Review


 * || Points || Possible Points ||
 * Proposal & Rationale || 5 || 5 ||
 * Annotated Journal References || 5 || 5 ||
 * Review of Research || 20 || 20 ||
 * Propose Method of Research || 19 || 10 ||
 * ** Total ** || 39 || 40 ||

Your interest in portfolios and reflection is fertile ground for research. However, you need to define the elements of writing you are studying carefully. As one article charges, these elements are not easy to define. For example, what is reflective and non-reflective writing or speaking? What are the traits? Relevant to that, how will you teach students to reflect? Because the teacher in the first study taught his students to reflect, it seemed inevitable their verbal reflections would be better. My experience tells me that students vary about how they prefer to reflect. It is a matter of learning style. So what you might want to consider is why do students prefer one method over another and how can you determine whether oral or written is better for each student? Sometimes students can’t say which they prefer for lack of experience.