ND DPI Title 1/Dakota TESL Conference

North Dakota Department of Instruction Title 1 and

DAKOTA TESL

Bismarck, ND

October 8–10, 2014

Bismarck Civic Center

Theme of Conference: The Power of Education

THE POWER OF PEDAGOGICAL PRINCIPLES

Joan Wink, Ph.D.

CSUS Professor Emeritawww.JoanWink.com

Thursday, 10:30

Ella Baker

I am saying as you must say, too, that in order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been.

South DakotaPennsylvania

WyomingArizonaTexas

California

wife

mother

grammie

cancer survivor

eduholic

professor emerita

rancher

retiree

From Joanie Richardson

to Mrs. Wink

to Mommy

to Ms. Winkie

to Dr. Wink

to Joanie

to “the missus”

Circa 1960s – Joanie Richardson

The value of collaborative learning in a very complex socio-cultural context.

• Vygotsky

• Shakespeare

• Meaning, not memory

• Dialogue, not silence

What pedagogical

principles have emerged?

So, what did I learn in my first year of teaching?

(a.k.a., Mrs. Wink)

• Teachers who teach in glass houses should not throw stones.

• Never say never.

The Vygotskian Metaphor for Water

Retrieved from www.joanwink.com/scheditems/EEE-Whats_Love_TESOL_2010.pdf

A Mosaic

So, what did I learn in the 60s?

Pedagogical Principle

#1

Vygotsky was right.(a.k.a., Joanie Richardson)

• Our sociocultural context really does

matter.• When we come together in new

situations with new friends, we really will be qualitatively different when we leave each other.

On to the 1970s(a.k.a., mommie)

• Parenting

• In an evil state far, far away: Pivotal Personal and Professional Experience

http://www.joanwink.com/critical-pedagogy-4th-edition/critical-pedagogy-4th-ed-pivotal-experiences/

Wink, J. (2011, pp. 2–4). Critical pedagogy: Notes from the real world. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.

So, What Did I Learn in the 70s?

Pedagogical Principle #2

Silence is bad.

On to the 1980s – (a.k.a., Ms. Winkie)

The Benson Kids

Wink, J. (2010). Critical Pedagogy: Notes from the real world (4th ed.), pp. 33–40. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop

of the student.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pedagogical Principle #3

Noise is good.

Two Perspectives

I came from a tradition…

• Teacher-centered• Memory• Skills-based• Tests• Extrinsic rewards• One right answer

But I was living …

• Student-centered

• Meaning

• Comprehension-based

• Porfolio

• Intrinsic rewards

• Multiple perspectives

Pedagogical Principles

• Meaningful• Purposeful• Relevant• Respectful

These principles are taken from the work of Ken and Yetta Goodman of the University of Arizona.

Love trumps methods.

By the end of the 80s, I could say…

• Cognitivism

• Interactivism

• Constructivism

• Constructivist

• Constructionism

• Social constructionsim

• Dialectical Learning

• Critical Pedagogy

On to the 90s

1990s

• Out with Freire; in with phonemes

• Mandated minutia

• Rigor and joy

• Patience and courage

Robert Frost was Right

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not

travel both.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,

I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all

the difference.

1991(a.k.a., Dr. Wink)

• Revisiting an evil state far, far away…

• Gender-quake

At rare intervals, the most significant factors in determining the future occur in infinitesimal quantities on unique occasions.

(L. Mumford, The Transformation of Man, 1956)

Movements have moments.

Pedagogical Principle #4

Words have power.

On to the 2000s and beyond

Charles Dickens

• These are the best of times.

• These are the worst of times.

• Simultaneous and contradictory ideas

Pedagogical Principle #5

Stories matter.

The Power of the Narrative

The human brain favors stories or the narrative form as a primary means of organizing and relating human experience. Stories contain large amounts of valuable information even when the storyteller forgets or invents new details.

~Silko, The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir

2000s

Cancer: What did I learn?

When you are going through hell, just keep on going.

(Dr. Wink morphed back to Joanie.)

Human relations are at the heart of schooling.

Cummins, 2001, as cited in Wink, 2011, p 90.

Retrieved from:www.joanwink.com/scheditems/CP-How-do-we-do-it-012412.pdf

So, how many Pedagogical Principles?

• Vygotsky was right: Context

• Silence is bad.

• Noise is good.

• Words have power.

• Stories matter.

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Stick together.

Education is radically about

love.~ Paulo Freire

Personal communication, N. Millich, November 3, 1998; cited in Wink, 2005, p. 2

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Stop. Stare. Scribble. Share.

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Blueberries

Jaime Vollmerfile://localhost/Users/jwink/Dropbox/Joan's%20New%20Folder/Blueberries/blueberry_story.html

Cummins, J. (2009) Transformative multiliteracies pedagogy: School-based strategies for closing the achievement gap. Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 11(2), 38-56. Used with permission, Wink, J. (2011).

Retrieved from:www.joanwink.com/scheditems/CP-How-do-we-do-it-012412.pdf

Cummins, J. (2009) Transformative multiliteracies pedagogy: School-based strategies for closing the achievement gap. Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 11(2), 38-56. Used with permission, Wink, J. (2011) p. 190.

Scaffold Meaning

Extend Language

Activate Prior Knowledge /

Build Background Knowledge

Affirm Identity

Literacy Engagement

↨Literacy

Achievement

Retrieved from:www.joanwink.com/scheditems/CP-How-do-we-do-it-012412.pdf

Nested Pedagogical Orientations

affirm identity extend language activate priorknowledge

scaffold meaning

Literacy Transfers

Energy Technology (credit)

Retrieved from:www.joanwink.com/scheditems/CP-How-do-we-do-it-012412.pdf