“Pose, Wobble, Flow”
I think my biggest “wobble” about this project is that my mind thinks a lot faster than I can usually produce work. Meaning I am scared that I will generate more questions than answers while beginning this project. Just like how I have to write a plan before I begin writing so I don’t overwork concepts, I will really have to make sure that I fully think through each idea I come up with. Spelling is another thing I struggle, “Wobble”, with as a writer. I have nightmares about spelling something wrong on the board in front of my students. I think they look to you as someone who is “wobble”-less and when you aren’t there is a wavering feeling in the students that you aren’t someone they should listen to. On the other hand, I hope to show the students that it is okay to be a wobbler, to mess something up and have that help from someone else. Again leading back to the idea of leading by example. Rather than getting flustered at them helping me, I hope to use my wobbles as teaching moments to establish my “morals” of the classroom. It does have that feeling that they will think less of you and that that is something I as a teacher will have to weight. I think overthinking in front of my class will be a “wobble” as well. I will have to use that like the prompt, or pre-writing, to help students develop their own “overthinking” that will help in a discussion in class.
As for my ideas about what I would like to do for my UGP I think I am still teetering. I know that fiction is my go to, something that offers my brain to expand and offer an allegory for my beliefs rather than state them right out the gate. I’m thinking around with the ideas of a detective novel something darker along the lines of Poe and his work, but also the intelligence that Sherlock Holmes has in his pieces. I don’t know how to mesh the two though which makes me nervous.
English Education 