I want you to write the class mission statement. I know this process may seem weird, but someone has to start, and it has to come from you, or we may as well just revert to a regular class where I dictate policy.
Here is a DRAFT of my mission statement...
As your AP teacher, my mission is:
to provide a classroom environment that is intellectually stimulating, well structured, and student-led;
to read student work with gentle eyes in the early drafts, and with critical and evaluative eyes in subsequent drafts;
to approach my teaching with enthusiasm and creativity;
to return work in a timely fashion;
to engage students with dense and complex texts written with different purposes, in a wide ranges of genres, time periods, and points of view, and
to require the very best effort and work product that each student is capable of.
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When we write out mission statement, is it supposed to follow the structure of Starbuck's one sentence or your multi pointed statement?
I don't know. I wrote that without the Starbucks one in front of me, so it came out that way, but it probably would have been different had I been looking at that model...as a matter of fact, I did that in class yesterday. It's a draft.
I have no prescription here. I'd like to see an organic piece of writing, where form is shaped by content, versus the OTHER way, where content must follow form.
would you like all of our drafts on the blog?? this weekend???
so here is my draft as well. i am a little unsure if this is right though.
We the class of 2009, dedicate ourselves to the common goal of forming a tolerant society of -learners in order to further our knowledge and understanding.
-we will encourage colleagues to work together as one
-build and provide a good working enviroment with constructive criticism
-look at sunjects from all angles
-learn to use all forms of grammar correctly
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