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Why the Creed Project Works
Design and Practice: Two Legged Learning
To begin moving toward these aims in an era that emphasizes “testable”
academic learning to the exclusion (some would say extinction)
of personal learning, teachers and curriculum designers can design
courses and programs using a Two-Legged approach. Two-Legged Design
begins with the intention to balance academic and personal learning
at every phase of classroom and curricular planning. [See Two
Legged Design for Sophomore English.] Chapter 14 of The Personal
Creed Project and a New Vision of Learning lays out some of the
practices I use to weave personal learning through the academic
year:
- Entry and Exit projects on the Personal Leg of curriculum
[Wisdom Project Materials and Creed Project Materials.]
- Big Questions
- The Thought Log [Sample Thought Log Quotes and QuoteCrackers.]
- Two-Legged Writings [Sample Two-Legged Writings.]
My article, “Zora Neale Hurston’s Janie: Pointing
the Way to Two-Legged Curriculum” (California English, February
2002), offers a more in-depth look at the possibilities of Two-Legged
Learning.
The Creed guidebook also explores other “behind-the-scenes”
practices I use for the two-legged weave:
- Cosmos-Friendly Themes
- Lighting Up the Dark Canon [Well-Lighted Works of Literature,
Cosmos-Friendly Passages, and Cosmos-Friendly Student Comments]
- Sharing Personal Growth With Students
- Meditation
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