EDTE+101


 * Syllabus**


 * M, W, F - [[file:EDTE 101 Foundations of Education Fall 2013 sec 1_case.docx]]
 * T, Th - [[file:EDTE 101 Foundations of Education Fall 2013 sec 3_case.docx]]

**Assignment Info (Most recent on top)**


 * Final Exam Essay **
 * Book Club Assignments **

Written Reflection:
 * Choose __one__  of the following options:
 * Identify 1-3 lessons you learned from the book that will help you in your future work as an educator or advocate for children. Explain these lessons by connecting selections from the book (a quote, an episode, or a theme) with specific ways you could imagine applying the lessons to your work.
 * What moved you as you read the book and how will this influence your future work as an educator or advocate for children? Explain your reaction to the book with specific examples from the text (quotes, episodes, or themes).
 * Your response should be ~1000 words.
 * You will peer-review your reflections with the members of your group.
 * Post your reflection on GoogleDocs
 * Share your reflection with one of your book club members (a hard copy or electronic).
 * Peer provides feedback using this rubric and returns it to you.
 * After you have reviewed the feedback, you turn in the rubric to me.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Peer Review Rubric <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Name of writer: Name of Reviewer:


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Criteria || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Partially || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reflection specifically identifies and describes 1-3 lessons OR describes what moved the author ||  ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The lessons or “what moved me” are explained in light of the text by mobilizing specific examples from the book. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The lessons or “what moved me” are thoughtfully analyzed in terms of potential applications to education or advocacy for children ||  ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The writing is polished and persuasive ||  ||   ||   ||

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Comments to the writer: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What did you especially admire or appreciate from the reflection?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What is one question that emerged from your reading of the text? What were you left wondering or thinking about?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What is one specific way the writer could strengthen the paper?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Group Presentations:
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The purpose of the presentation is to share information and insights from your book that will provide other students with tools for working with diverse learners as educators or advocates for children. (Tools can be cognitive tools -- i.e. frames for thinking and solving problems or new and important information and/or pedagogical tools -- i.e. specific ways to teach or work with diverse learners.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Think of your presentation as a professional development workshop/training, not as a lecture.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Guidelines:
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">20 minute workshop
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">must be interactive and engaging
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">includes a handout of the professional tools
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">based on the book; uses examples from the book to illustrate the tools
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">each group member actively participates in the planning and presentation of the workshop

A. Imagine yourself in the classroom and begin to think about what it is that you are doing, what the students are doing, and how the classroom feels.
 * __Teaching Metaphor__**

1) Drawing on experiences that are meaningful in your own life, identify a metaphor that captures the essence of yourself as teacher. Explain how the metaphor connects with the teacher you would like to become.

2) Expand the metaphor to include the larger context of teaching. If your metaphor is “teacher as gardener”, to use a clichéd example, are the students the plants? How does the larger world of education fit (administrators, parents, school building, curriculum, etc.)?

3) Because metaphors attempt to explain the unknown by comparing it to something concrete and familiar, they must break down somewhere. In other words, a metaphor is never what it attempts to explain. Where does your metaphor break down? How is it different from teaching?

B. Choose one of the following options to present your personal teaching metaphor.

1) Create a 1-minute video and post it on YouTube. 2) Create a 1-minute photo montage using Powerpoint, Prezi, Ribbet, or some other program.

Some options for legal images: Be sure you provide attribution for your photos! This can be done at the end of your presentation/video.
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C. Assessment Checklist:

a. Metaphor is thoughtfully and thoroughly explained through text and/or audio. b. Metaphor represents a sincere, reasonable, and creative attempt to describe teaching. c. Limitations of the metaphor are identified. d. Images are visually appealing and effectively represent the metaphor. e. Images are legally used and proper attribution is provided f. Presentation is 1 minute (give or take 10 seconds)


 * Tuesday, Thursday class - Post your finished project here:**
 * http://gonzagateach.wikispaces.com/Teaching+Metaphor+Project**

http://gonzagateach.wikispaces.com/Metaphor+Assignments+MWF
 * Monday, Wednesday, Friday class - Post your finished project here:**

The first charter school in Spokane is in the works. Your task is to analyze the vision for this new school in light of historical themes, purposes of schools, and your personal professional leanings.
 * __Purposes of Schools Assessments - Due Oct 14__**
 * 1) Pride Prep is targeting students who come from historically disadvantaged populations, particularly low-income and immigrants. The school plans to hire skilled, experienced teachers who will have extended planning and collaboration time. Read this article: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/sep/16/new-school-thinking/
 * 2) Analyze the school in light of the five historical themes. Map some of the key components/values of the school onto historical moments in American education.
 * Evolving curriculum (what should be taught)
 * Who gets taught? (inclusion/exclusion)
 * Who should teach? (teacher preparation and professionalization)
 * How to teach? (methods of teaching; traditional/progressive pendulum)
 * Why school? (purposes of schooling)
 * 1) What do you see as the underlying purpose of the school? Map this purpose onto larger conversations in the national dialogue around the purposes of American schools.
 * 2) What is your personal professional opinion about this school? Would you like to teach there? Do you think the charter should be approved? Why or why not?
 * 3) With your partner, create an informational brochure that communicates your stance on Pride Prep that could be distributed to members of the board who will be choosing whether or not to allow Pride Prep to move forward.
 * 4) We will invite the founder of the school to come speak with us.

What you will turn in:
 * An __individual__ written response to steps 2, 3, and 4. Your response should be about 2 pages, single-spaced. Post this on GoogleDocs under "misc assignments." Include outside sources to support your argument.
 * A printed brochure (one per group)

Name: || Scores 5 = exceptional, 3 = adequate, 1 = unacceptable || Partner: ||  ||
 * Rubric**
 * Individual Criteria
 * School is analyzed according to __each of the five historical themes.__ || 5 4 3 2 1 ||
 * Historical analysis includes __at least one historical comparison__ for each of the five themes. || 5 4 3 2 1 ||
 * Historical analysis is __accurate and thoughtful.__ || 5 4 3 2 1 ||
 * Statement of purpose reflects a __logical and reasonable interpretation__ of the school || 5 4 3 2 1 ||
 * Statement of purpose is __connected to larger, national conversations/issues__ about education. || 5 4 3 2 1 ||
 * Purpose statement is thoughtful and __reflects a complex understanding__ about the contested purposes of schools. || 5 4 3 2 1 ||
 * Personal, professional opinion includes a __clear and complex stance__ and is __adequately supported.__ || 5 4 3 2 1 ||
 * Writing is __polished__, __free from mechanical errors__, and __persuasive__. || 5 4 3 2 1 ||
 * Overall Quality || 5 4 3 2 1 ||
 * Total Score ||   ||
 * Brochure
 * Brochure __clearly communicates a stance__ that is directed toward a __particular audience__ (parents, educators, students, or the board who will decide whether or not to approve the charter) || 5 4 3 2 1 ||
 * Content of the brochure reflects the ability to __highlight key educational issues that appeal to particular stakeholders__ || 5 4 3 2 1 ||
 * The brochure is __professional__ and __appealing__ || 5 4 3 2 1 ||
 * Total Score ||   ||

Think back to a few years of your childhood/adolescence. Choose these years based on the age of students you would like to teach in the future. For instance, if you hope to teach 6th grade, think back to when you were about age 11; if you hope to teach high school some day, think about your high school years. Answer each question in one or two paragraphs. I anticipate that in total, your responses will consist of about 3 pages. This should be typed on your GoogleDocs journal.
 * __Educational Autobiography__**
 * 1) Describe the building where you went to school. (What did the building look like? How old was it? Describe the neighborhood where it was located. What were the classrooms like? What resources were available in the building to students and teachers?)
 * 2) Describe your favorite teacher during this time period. (Why did this teacher make an impression on you? What do you remember about his/her teaching style? What was your learning experience like?)
 * 3) Describe the nature of your parents’ involvement in your education during this time. (How did they support you? What did they expect of you in terms of school?)
 * 4) At your school, what did a student do or not do in order to be successful? About what percent of students do you think were “successful”?
 * 5) Do you consider yourself a successful student during this time period? Why or why not?
 * 6) At the time, what motivated you to achieve in school?
 * 7) Describe the general characteristics of the student body at your school during this time period. (Among other characteristics, consider racial, cultural, linguistic, and economic diversity.)
 * 8) Recall an experience from this time period when you felt you or another student had been treated unfairly. What were the circumstances surrounding that event? Why did you feel it was unjust? How did you respond? Were any adults involved? How did they respond?