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What is effective teaching & learning?   What is effective teaching & learning?
Before Class WEEK 1 During Class
 

Day 1 Tuesday Aug24

  • Introduction to course
  • "Teddy" http://www.teachermovie.com
Send Barbara an email message at bjmonroe@wsu.edu--so she can get your correct address

Day 2 Thursday Aug26

  • Teaching scenarios & learning principles
Who are our students?   Who are our students?
Before Class WEEK 2 During Class
Decide on what school district you'd like to research for your Social Context assignment. Email your choice to Barbara before class.

Day 3 Tuesday Aug31

  • Standard V
  • Social context assignment

Do Step One (see "social contexts: step one" on this page, left column; scroll down for my Bellingham example). Bring printout of your research notes and/or bring laptop to class (if you have one) with that information on it.

 

Day 4 Thursday Sept2
  • work on Social Contexts assignment: Step Two in class
  • create wikispace in class
Before Class WEEK 3 During Class

Read "Storytime on the Reservation" (handout)

Day 5 Tuesday Sept7

  • Work on Step Three of Social Contexts assignment in class

 

Day 6 Thursday Sept9

  • example unit
Which literary lenses best fit our goals?   Which literary lenses best fit our goals?
Before Class WEEK 4 During Class

Check out Language of Literature (LOL) or Elements of Literature (EOL) for the grade level of your choice at Media Reserves, basement, Holland-Terrell Library. They are listed under Course Reserves in Griffith: Engl 323 or Prof. Barbara Monroe: link to book numbers. You will need to request the book by its book number.

Bring either LOL or EOL to class to leave in closet

Read pp. 1-10 (up to "Poststructuralism," draft manuscript from Barbara & Crag's book (printout provided)

Day 7 Tuesday Sept14
  • quick-write on reading (daily grade taken)
  • Literary Lenses: New Criticism & Reader Response

Read pp. 10-17, plus Figure 2 in the back, draft manuscript from Barbara & Crag's book (printout provided)

SOCIAL CONTEXTS DUE in wikispace, Thursday, midnight.

Day 8 Thursday Sept16
  • quick-write on reading (daily grade taken)
  • Literary lenses: poststructuralism
Before Class WEEK 4 During Class
How do we conceptualize a unit?   How do we conceptualize a unit?

 

Day 9Tuesday Sept21
  • example unit overview:
  • Victorian tapestry & gender roles
 

Day 10 Thursday Sept23
  • Unit overview examples, cont'd
Before Class WEEK 6 During Class
 

Day 11 Tuesday Sept28

  • start on unit overview in class: what is the Big Idea? Developing focus questions.
 

Day 12 Thursday Sept30
  • work on unit overviews in class: developing text set and sequence.
Before Class WEEK 7 During Class
 

Day 13 Tuesday Oct5

  • work on unit overviews in class: writing the rationale
Draft of Unit overview due in wikispace by midnight, Thursday, Oct. 7

Day 14 Thursday Oct7
  • work on unit overviews in class: how to do an online peer workshop
How do we sequence assignments?   How do we sequence assignments?
Before Class WEEK 8 During Class
Workhop on Unit Overview due in wikispace by 11:59pm, SUNDAY, Oct 10 (worth two daily grades). [Please comment only on those in your assigned groups, although you're free to read others for fun and profit.]

Day 15 Tuesday Oct12

  • principle of "backward design"
  • examples of culminating projects
 

Day 16 Thursday Oct14
  • work on assignment sequence in class
Before Class WEEK 9 During Class
FINAL version of Unit Overview due in wikispace MONDAY 11:59pm, ready for final grade

Day 17 Tuesday Oct19

  • writing learning targets
 

Day 18 Thursday Oct21
  • writing assessment rubrics
  • aligning learning targets, assignments, assessments
How do we teach reading comprehension?   How do we teach reading comprehension?
Before Class WEEK 10 During Class
Draft of Assignment Sequence due in wiki space MONDAY, Oct 25,midnight.

Peer Workshop due in wikispace Friday, 11:59 pm, Oct 29.

Day 19 Tuesday Oct26

  • Lesson Sequence assignment
  • Microteaching assignment
  • teaching grammar

Bring print-outs--double-spaced first--of your Social Contexts and Unit Overview assignments.

Read Beers, Ch. 1 & 2, pp. 1-22

Day 20 Thursday Oct28
  • quick-write on reading (daily grade taken)
  • grammar lesson - Barbara
Before Class WEEK 11 During Class

FINAL version of Assignment Sequence due in wikispace MONDAY 11:59, ready for final grade

Read Beers, Ch. 5, pp. 61-72, When Kids Can't Read

Day 21 Tuesday Nov2

  • Teaching inference:
  • cartoons p. 71, #5 - Archie & Kyle E
  • bumper stickers p. 71, #6 -Steve & Kyle V
  • grammar lesson - Barbara
Read Beers, Ch. 3, pp. 23-39, When Kids Can't Read
Day 22 Thursday Nov4
  • Pre-reading strategies:
  • anticipation guides pp. 74-80 & scales pp. 139-144 -[not assigned]
  • tea party (aka "party talk") pp. 94-101 - Lukas & Whitney
  • grammar lesson - Barbara
Before Class WEEK 12 During Class
Read Beers, Ch. 4, pp. 40-60, When Kids Can't Read

Day 23Tuesday Nov9

  • During-reading strategies:
  • say something - Heidi & Kyle C
  • rereading - [not assigned]
  • post-it notes pp. 133-134 - [not assigned]
  • think aloud p. 119-127/think silently p. 128 - Alyssa
  • grammar lesson - Barbara
    VETERANS DAY - NO CLASS

Day 24 Thursday Nov11
    VETERANS DAY - NO CLASS
  WEEK 13 During Class
 

Day 25 Tuesday Nov16

  • After-reading strategies:
  • text reformulation (aka "story recycling") pp. 159-165- Kady & Rachel
  • sketch to stretch pp. 171-172 - Toshi & Chelsea
  • grammar lesson - Barbara
FINAL version of Lesson Sequence DUE in wikispace WEDNESDAY 11;59pm, ready for final grade.

Day 26 Thursday Nov18
  • After-reading strategies (cont'd)
  • word splash p. 94 & most important word pp. 173-175 Erik & Nicole
  • grammar lesson - Barbara
THANKSGIVING   LEFTOVERS
Before Class WEEK 14 During Class
Read Beers, Ch. 9, pp. 176-203, When Kids Can't Read

Day 27 Monday Nov30

  • teaching vocabulary

Day 28 Wednesday Dec2
  • Literature circles
Before Class WEEK 15 During Class

Day 29 Monday Dec7

  • SSR

Day 30 Wednesday Dec9
  • COURSE EVALUATIONS

 

 

 

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