Fortune Cookies
This was a project I created to show my educational journey through the BEd program. I filled each cookie with a snippet of my year. Whether it was a quote that helped me along, a learnt lesson, or something that guided me; each fortune cookie’s fortune had somehow guided me through the program. Here are the fortunes:
| Our job as educators is not to teach the students the subject, but rather the passion for the subject. –Sir John Jones | Empathy drives connection; Sympathy drives disconnection. –Brene Brown | “Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill |
| As a new instructor in the Field of Home Economics, my aim is to create a modern, community-based classroom. | I hope to instill passion into my students; to guide them to find the power in vulnerability, the strength in community, and the endurance to overcome failures | Students with creative intelligence produce novel ideas and are willing to elaborate on them, creating successful ideas or inventions. |
| Practical Intelligence= Acquiring information and then applying it to the world in which they live in. | Analytical Intelligence= Students who are adept to planning, monitoring, and evaluating. | The elective status of textiles and clothing in the school curriculum places them in the margins of education |
| Home Economics is often viewed as an old-fashioned, gender bias, peripheral elective that no longer has a place in our modern curriculum. | Home ec is 3 branches: Food and Nutrition, the second is Clothing and Textiles, and the third branch is Family Studies | Home Economics can easily tie into so many different subject areas. So easy for cross curricular learning! |
| “What skills and intelligences do students develop in Home Economics that we can apply to cross curricular learning?”-EB | Links to practice= creating 3 of the same lessons for different subject areas. | “These first two weeks of practicum have been amazing, a rollercoaster of learning that is whizzing along with me on it” |
| “I never would have expected to have mostly boys in my foods classes.” | “Some of my students have never step foot in a kitchen before, a surprising fact for me to wrap my head around.” | “I’ve made different kinds of fudge about 5 times this week. I can safely say I’m tired of fudge.” |
| “I would like to see assessment and self-reflection take a front seat in my classroom.”- Mid point eval. | “I would like to create an alternative or modified curriculum for my IEP and ELL students”- Mid point eval. | “I sit here, about to do report card marks, wondering how the time managed to fly by so incredibly fast.” |
| “Lesson planning remains to be a giant that looms in front of me, and my students are the little soldiers pushing me to keep going.” | “Not to mention the wonderful, beautiful, ball of wisdom and energy that was my sponsor teacher.” | “I loved teaching foods. It was an experience I wasn’t expecting, or professionally prepared for, but it was so much fun.” |
| “It’s all of the small things that make the Scottish school system different than ours back home.” | “Students still sit in perfect rows and are given de-merits on their school record for bad behavior.” | Grade smarter, not harder= Novice (1-2, 0-49%), Apprentice (3-4, 50-85%), or an Expert (5-6, 86-100%). |
| “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” – Albert Einstein. | “Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it’s not random” – Ken Robinson | “Take chances, make mistakes, get messy!” Miss Frizzle. |
| “Creativity is intelligence having fun” –Albert Einstein | “Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.” –Brene Brown | “Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.” –Brene Brown |
| “Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together.” –Brene Brown | In every subject you can find something you’re passionate about. You just have to explore and take chances! | Every subject in school has its place, and every subject is worthy of respect. Remember that. |
To Make the Fortune Cookies:
INGREDIENTS
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup rice flour
2 teaspoons cornstarch
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup sugar
4 egg whites
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons canola oil
3 tablespoons water (I used a lovely flavoured Herbal tea)
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
DIRECTIONS
- Preheat oven to 350°F. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, rice flour, cornstarch, salt, and sugar.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the egg whites until frothy. Set aside.
- Create a well in the middle of the dry ingredients. Pour the canola oil, water, and vanilla extract into the center. Use a rubber spatula to stir the wet ingredients. Eventually incorporate the dry ingredients along the sides of the bowl. Stir until all the dry ingredients are well blended.The batter will be stiff. Add half of the egg whites. Mix well to break up any lumps. When smooth, incorporate the remaining egg whites. Mix until smooth.
- Pipe or spoon the batter about the size of a quarter onto a nonstick baking sheet, leaving about 3 inches of space in between each spoonful of batter. Using the back of a spoon, spread the batter in a circular motion outward to make it as thin as possible without creating holes in the batter. Bake for approximately 8 to 10 minutes until slightly brown around the edges.
- Remove from oven and with an offset spatula, carefully and quickly scrape the fortune circles off the nonstick sheet and flip them over. Place a fortune strip in the center of the cookie. Immediately fold them in half slightly and crease the middle of the cookie on the edge of the hot pan or a cup to shape. Place the folded fortune cookies into a muffin pan to cool (so they won’t lose their shape). Store in an airtight container for up to 1 week.
Source: http://www.popsugar.com/celebrity/Homemade-Fortune-Cookies-33841235 (July 17th, 2016)