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In my CI 3850 class, we have been learning about Discourse. Our teacher asked us a question that I feel everyone should think about as they are planning their classrooms and teaching styles.

QUESTION: :?: What is Discourse of your specific content area? This means what do you plan for you speech, emotions, feelings, mannerisms, values, language, environment (class set up, ect.), dress, views, and pedagogies for the area you plan to teach? (You don’t have to answer all them, only a few will be fine)


To help you better understand the question, I will answer it. With the dress, I feel that I should dress professionally and appropriately. With Speech, I want to talk in a way that the whole class will be able to understand me. The values I want to have are straight rows of desks. I want to have a lot of student work up around the room. I only want a few things of bought materials up. I want to have some group work, but also individual work. I want each student to be able to show off his or her individual talent. I want to be able to do a lot of hands on work. I want to have centers for different things, especially reading. I want my class to be accepting of different cultures and to know about them. Mainly, I want my class to be like a family.


Wed Feb 16, 2005 10:59 pm
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Thanks for this post! I really like this topic. It gives us a chance to really think about how we want to set up our future classrooms. I want to have my desk arranged in groups of four. So that each table will be like a team. Each team will have the opportunity to gain or lose points. I would like to have some kind of signal for each team to let them know if they are getting too loud or disruptive. A teacher I observed once had a touch light on each table and if that table was getting to loud during group work she would casually go by without making a big scene and touch their light on so they would know they needed to settle down. I want my classroom to have many centers such as reading, math, and writing. In my reading center I am going to have a lot of pillows and a variety of books. The reading center will be used as a privillage and those that have been listening well or completed an assignment early can go read. Thats just a few ideas I've had. I may post again with more ideas that cross my mind.

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Thu Feb 17, 2005 9:42 am
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You've got to love the roundness. I have to go with the Socratic circle in my high school English classroom. Though rows to contribute to discipline, the circle is a symbol of complete equality - no one in front of anybody else. Plus, discussion is key to education, so as we will all be facing one another, this should be much easier than talking to the back of someone's head.

And can we do away with those god-awful flourescent lights!? There has to be some supplementary lamps placed around the class. Fire codes be damned. I know that somehow those horrid four foot long tubes of light are sucking the souls out of everyone they touch.

Plus, it would be really cool to have a sweet picture of Shakespeare on one side of the room, and then maybe John Lennon on the the other. Maybe give the room a classical, yet modern feel. A picture of Jesus, Buddha, and Muhammad hugging would be nice, but I don't think Homeland Security would let that fly.

And you have to have a water cooler. Or maybe a coffee maker. Kids get tired at school. Teachers get tired at school. Caffeine = Learning.

A marker board would be cool too.


Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:05 pm
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