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	<title>Work &#038; Academics</title>
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	<description>...random examples of my work throughout the years...</description>
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		<title>I Have to Say Something&#8230; but the words just aren&#8217;t coming out right</title>
		<link>http://work.mrdwab.com/2008-07-04/i-have-to-say-something-but-the-words-just-arent-coming-out-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananda</dc:creator>
		
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<category>communication</category><category>course materials</category><category>PowerPoint</category><category>sample documentation</category><category>Tata-Dhan Academy</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ One of the courses that Academy students have to take is &#8220;Managerial Oral Communication.&#8221; I rarely (almost never, actually) use PowerPoint in my classes, but for a change, I decided to deliver this presentation to them. (I&#8217;ve included notes below so you can have an idea of what was discussed in the class itself.)
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		<title>Transferring Grassroots Experiences into New Development Theories and Concepts</title>
		<link>http://work.mrdwab.com/2008-02-03/transferring-grassroots-experiences/</link>
		<comments>http://work.mrdwab.com/2008-02-03/transferring-grassroots-experiences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Report on a workshop offered by the Tata-Dhan Academy, Madurai
Preface
Post-independence India has witnessed an immense struggle against poverty. A variety of stakeholders have resorted to innovative and diverse models to face the challenges ahead. NGOs have played key roles in furthering the efforts made by these stakeholders to reduce poverty. In this process, development [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fieldwork Diary Writing: A &#8220;Development Diary&#8221; for Self-Reflection</title>
		<link>http://work.mrdwab.com/2007-12-15/fieldwork-diary-writing/</link>
		<comments>http://work.mrdwab.com/2007-12-15/fieldwork-diary-writing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 06:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananda</dc:creator>
		
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Goodbye &#8220;Dear Diary&#8221; and hello &#8220;Development Diary&#8221;
Many people can be a bit intimidated by the thought of diary writing. A large part of this is the recollection of childhood diary writing experiences filled with mundane details which look something like:
Dear Diary,
Today I got up at 6:30 and had five idli for breakfast. Then I went [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is India&#8217;s New Growth Reaching the Poor?</title>
		<link>http://work.mrdwab.com/2007-12-15/is-indias-new-growth-reaching-the-poor/</link>
		<comments>http://work.mrdwab.com/2007-12-15/is-indias-new-growth-reaching-the-poor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 06:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ India is often heralded both as the land of diversity and as the land of unity. This is a claim reinforced by the wealth of religious, cultural, and linguistic diversity coexisting with many things uniquely &#8220;Indian&#8221; within the country&#8217;s boundaries. Now, with India&#8217;s impressive growth, &#8220;income&#8221; can be added as an element of &#8220;diversity&#8221;; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snippy Writing Tips</title>
		<link>http://work.mrdwab.com/2007-09-18/snippy-writing-tips/</link>
		<comments>http://work.mrdwab.com/2007-09-18/snippy-writing-tips/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ I couldn&#8217;t help it. I had to start writing my own writing guide based on a few of the things that really irritate me when I&#8217;m editing or correcting something for someone else. It&#8217;s a work in progress and it&#8217;s being done somewhat haphazardly (which probably means that I&#8217;m eventually going to get lazy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Process Documentation and Journal Writing: Guidelines for Making the Most out of Your Field Experiences</title>
		<link>http://work.mrdwab.com/2007-09-18/process-documentation-and-journal-writing/</link>
		<comments>http://work.mrdwab.com/2007-09-18/process-documentation-and-journal-writing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ Download a nicely formatted PDF version for offline viewing.
Introduction
Process documentation and journal writing should become a natural extension of the work that you do while you are in the field. Both of these types of writing are meant to describe what happened in the field, and both of them will include different kinds of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Asking the Right Questions: An Introduction to the Centre for Micro Finance</title>
		<link>http://work.mrdwab.com/2007-04-05/asking-the-right-questions/</link>
		<comments>http://work.mrdwab.com/2007-04-05/asking-the-right-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ Last summer, the Centre for Micro Finance took on a group of interns to help with several of their projects. Two of the interns, Rachel Bergenfield and Neera Jain&#8212;by the way, the most awesome interns ever!&#8212;agreed to undertake the huge project of filming a documentary in a few short weeks, and here is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Instructing the Curriculum? Or a Curriculum for Better Instruction?</title>
		<link>http://work.mrdwab.com/2007-03-26/instructing-the-curriculum/</link>
		<comments>http://work.mrdwab.com/2007-03-26/instructing-the-curriculum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ Evaluation and Assessment of Curriculum
This week, as I write this, I am also in the midst of finding a new job. My past few days have been filled with composing cover letters, browsing online job sites, sending emails out to my network of colleagues, and refining my CV&#8212;my curriculum vitae. &#8220;The course of life.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eliminating the Fear of the Test: Reflections on Assessments</title>
		<link>http://work.mrdwab.com/2007-03-26/eliminating-the-fear-of-the-test/</link>
		<comments>http://work.mrdwab.com/2007-03-26/eliminating-the-fear-of-the-test/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananda</dc:creator>
		
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<category>assessment</category><category>childhood development</category><category>curriculum design</category><category>education reform</category><category>self-reflection and education</category><category>standards</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Evaluation and Assessment of Curriculum
Abstract
Our world is full of assessments. This seems especially true to those in the education field who conduct assessments ranging from self-designed assessments for classroom use, to nationally designed assessments to compare students from different states or districts. So caught up are we in the act of either administering or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is High-Stakes Testing Highly Unrealistic?</title>
		<link>http://work.mrdwab.com/2007-02-11/is-high-stakes-testing-highly-unrealistic/</link>
		<comments>http://work.mrdwab.com/2007-02-11/is-high-stakes-testing-highly-unrealistic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 04:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ Lois Christie &#124; Ananda Mahto &#124; Dawn Parrish &#124; Christopher Wood
Standards-Based Curriculum and Instruction
Testing has always been commonplace in schools&#8212;and while students have had to take tests for years, the SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) was first administered in 1926; high-stakes testing is largely the result of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. The [...]]]></description>
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