Schedule
August 23:
- Google Form: Motivations, why you’re in this class
- Syllabus
- Website
- Effective writing
- TED Talk: Sir Ken Robinson, Dan Pink.
- Grading, Classtime, and the concept of Assessment.
- Reading Schedule: Provenzo-Noddings, Para 1&2
- Assignment: Dispositions and Front-Loading
August 30:
- Write on Provenzo-Noddings: My math endorsement saga.
- Talk about classroom placements one-on-one.
- Types of lessons presentation: Hamlet example.
- Develop Unit examples
- Para materials, chapter 2 table: Come up with cases.
- Reading Schedule: Lemov-1&2
- Assignment: Start developing Unit plan.
September 6:
- Return: Dispositions Assignment
- Placements aren’t done yet.
- Discuss: Lemov-1&2
- Discuss and turn in first Unit plan, form groups. Discuss: Adults or age appropriate?
- Notes and role play: Teachers vs. Paras.
- Reading Schedule: Provenzo-Du Bois, Van Oort 1-4
- Assignment: First lesson plan from unit (Need-to-know, pre-assessment)
September 13:
- Motivation
- Unit: Teach the first part of your unit (Need-to-know, pre-assessment)
- Discuss: The Poverty Cycle – Provenzo-Du Bois
- Reading Schedule: Lemov-3
- Assignment: Reflect on how it went
September 20:
- Check Roster
- Go over Unit plan and feedback from last week
- Go over unit plan with each other and me.
- Cornally Lesson Beginning
- Need-to-know
- Jump day
- Momentum, pool balls? pucks?
- Contact your own teacher to do an interview. We’re going to forgo placements due to night-class status.
- Discuss: Lemov-3, Structure and Delivery of Lessons
- Reading Schedule: Provenzo-Gatto, Para 5
- Assignment: Teacher interview. (due before Thanksgiving)
September 27:
- Write down initial expectation of these students.
- Student Panel, questions about your lessons.
- Dan Pink and the Candle Problem: How should I grade your Units?
- Why this is the first time I can grade you.
- Discuss: Provenzo-Gatto, Van Oort 5, Prejudice, Racism, and Diversity.
- Reading Schedule: Lemov-4
October 4:
- Just Enough To Get By
- Diversity (Van Oort 5)
- Guided Inquiry from Unit. (Unit teaching Part II)
- Demonstrate something from Van Oort and Lemov.
- Discuss: Lemov-4
- Reading Schedule: Provenzo-Delpit, Para 6&7
October 11:
- Teacher Panel: Trey Bell, Matt Harding, Nathan and Jessica Munsterman.
- Discuss: Provenzo-Delpit
- Reading Schedule: Lemov-5
October 18:
- Teacher Panel: Lauren Cannon, John Dunkhase, Bill Decker, Dan Boscaljon
- What Goes into a lesson plan?
- Discuss: Lemov-5
- Reading Schedule: Provenzo-Johnson, Para 8
October 25:
- Discussion and Open Inquiry From Unit
- Lesson Plan due.
- Discuss: Provenzo-Johnson
- Reading Schedule: Lemov-6
November 1:
- Assignment: Teaching Philosophy.
- Schedule Reminder:
- Interview due on the 15th
- Final Teaching of Unit on the 15th
- Classroom Management. Always two ways to look at it.
- Listening to iPod under hoodie
- Disobeying dress code (mild)
- Disobeying dress code (severe)
- Head down
- Having hushed conversation
- Constantly getting up
- Abusing freedom and lax atmosphere.
- Discuss: Lemov-6
- Reading Schedule: Provenzo-Kozol, Para 10
November 8:
- Taylor Mali
- Jeff’s Classroom Observation
- Bloom’s Taxonomy: Last lesson should center on later ideas.
- Knowledge
- Factual
- Conceptual
- Procedural
- Metacognitive
- Cognitive
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyze
- Evaluate
- Create
- Discuss: Provenzo-Kozol
- Reading Schedule: Lemov-7
November 15:
- Teacher Interview Due.
- Teach Final Part of Lesson (Plan due).
- Discuss: Lemov-7
- Reading Schedule: Provenzo-Groening, Para 10, Lemov-8
November 22:
- Turkey Recess; No Class
November 29:
- Vollmer
- Final Paper Review and discussion.
- Discuss: Lemov-8, Provenzo-Groening.
- Reading Schedule: Provenzo-Rofes, Para 11
December 6:
- Make up sessions for teaching unit.
December 13:
- Final Paper Due at 6:00 PM.
