221+Agenda+-+1.19.17

Today's Objective(s):

 * Begin to recognize the complexity of pedagogy
 * Explain why lesson alignment matters
 * Identify lesson elements within a teaching episode (goal, instruction, practice, assessment, student characteristics)

9:25 - 10:10 - Welcome and Introductions
 * Put cell phones in the distraction basket.
 * Notetaker:
 * Introduce yourself "in the manner of your discipline"
 * [|Me]

10:10 - 10:40 - Brief introduction to the course
 * Goals:
 * Develop a core set of professional skills and dispositions to launch your profession
 * Provide authentic, high quality academic and social support to middle-schoolers
 * 241/221 Relationships
 * [|A Glimpse of Garry]
 * Begin to embrace the identity of a professional vs. a student
 * Some logistics
 * Course technology (respond to invitations from Wikispaces and Vosaic -- create a professional username)
 * Blackboard
 * Wiki
 * LiveText
 * Vosaic
 * A notebook (the old-fashioned kind)
 * Fingerprints
 * If you are not yet cleared, this is now an emergency!
 * Syllabus
 * Read it and come with questions on Tuesday. (There will be a quiz of sorts.)

10:40 - 10:50 - Break

10:50 - 11:50 - Pedagogy (P.S. That's your field.)
 * [|Presentation Slides]

11:50 - 12:05 - Housekeeping
 * For next class (1/24)
 * If you haven't already, get fingerprint clearance!
 * Read the syllabus and jot down any questions (seriously - read it!)
 * Create Wikispaces and Vosaic accounts (invitation may be in junk mailbox)
 * Spend ~one hour perusing/studying the resources on this page: Higher Order Thinking Frameworks
 * Take notes organized by specific resource
 * Focus on guiding questions
 * Bring your notes to class