Literacy+and+ELLs+-+Fall+16

"Language is the window to my soul . . ." = = **“Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.”** = = ― Nelson Mandela, // Long Walk to Freedom // = = = =

=**Syllabus **=  = =

=**Course Resources **= >>> (Support these assertions with specific examples/evidence from your teaching/observing). 1 page, single-spaced >> **Final Paper - Due December 10: **
 * Planning Templates
 * [|Artifacts of Teaching] (videos and lesson plans)
 * ELP Standards
 * [|Link to the standards]
 * [|Link to an overview]
 * Other relevant resources
 * Quiz 1 Study Guide
 * [|Problem of Practice Description]
 * **Final Pieces **
 * Next steps (from the original assignment description)
 * 1) (You've already done this.) Based on your research and thinking, identify a specific action you can take in English PLUS to address your problem of practice. The goal is not to solve the problem, but to respond to it and learn more about it.
 * 2) Evaluate your efforts to respond to your problem of practice. What worked? What didn’t work? How do you know? What are possible next steps? What new questions have emerged?
 * 1) Based on your experience and research, refine your original problem of practice or add a sub-problem. Conduct a small amount of research on this new formulation. Select 2 additional professional, credible resources to read. Add these to your annotated bibliography.
 * 2) Write a final reflection summarizing what you learned throughout the "problem of practice" project (including your original research, interventions, reflections, and new thinking from additional research) and possible next steps if you had the opportunity to continue working on this problem. 1 page, single-spaced
 * Put together each of the elements of your "problem of practice" into a single document and upload it to BB. It should include these parts, clearly labeled as a new section.
 * Description of your problem
 * Complete annotated bibliography with the two new sources clearly marked
 * Description of your proposed interventions
 * Lesson plans and key instructional materials from the lesson/activities you taught in English PLUS. (If you prepared lessons/activities as a group, clearly indicate your contribution.)
 * Evaluation/reflection of your experience implementing an intervention(s)
 * Final summary/reflection
 * Evaluation criteria:
 * Includes each of the above components completed according to assignment guidelines.
 * Demonstrates critical engagement with professional resources/research; proposals and reflections are linked to research.
 * Reflections and analysis are supported by specific examples and evidence from teaching experience and research.
 * The writing reflects a professional development stance -- communicates a teacher who is curious, thoughtful, and open to learning.
 * Writing is polished and professional.
 * **Final Presentation Description **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The class will be split into two groups with a mix of MTSL, TE, and SPED students as well as a mix of beginning, intermediate, and advanced English PLUS levels.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">For your presentation you should
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Represent your “problem of practice” project in an engaging, focused manner. Concentrate on something you learned that really matters to you.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">You will have 7 minutes to present and a couple minutes to discuss with the audience.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Your presentation should be supported by an engaging, creative product, e.g. Prezi, PowerPoint, poster, modern dance, rap, poetry, letter, etc. If you use Prezi, PowerPoint, or poster, do not fill the page with words. It needs to be well designed with consideration to both theoretical concepts and practical application.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Presentation Evaluation Criteria:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Includes relevant theoretical constructs from your research and course readings
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Includes practical applications
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Is specifically grounded in the students you worked with and the Shaw Middle School context
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Content is reflective, analytical and shows thoughtful connections between theory and practice
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Creativity (presentation includes a distinctive element that reflects you)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Professional Presentation (well-prepared, stays within time parameters, engages audience)


 * [|Professional Toolbox]
 * If you are doing an individual toolbox, follow the guidelines [|here]: (from wiki)
 * If you are participating in the group toolbox, follow these directions:
 * Cluster into groups of no more than four.
 * Each person posts 10 items in the appropriate category on the wiki (early childhood, elementary, secondary, adult) - **Be sure to sign your posts with three tildes ~**
 * Avoid repetition of Gibbons' activities.
 * Toolbox is due December 8. (Half your items should be compiled/posted by Dec 1.)
 * Model - [[file:Gibbons ELL Toolbox.docx]]
 * Group Professional Toolboxes
 * MTSL Lesson Plan and Observation Templates
 * [[file:observation-evaluation form with lesson plan.doc]] [[file:7_step_lesson_plan.pdf]]

=**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Course Calendar and Agendas **=

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Sep 1
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Week 1 - on campus **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grabe & Stoller, Comparing L1 and L2 Reading

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Sep 8
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Week 2 - on campus **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kucer, 1

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sep 15
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Week 3 - at Shaw **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kucer, 2

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sep 22
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Week 4 - at Shaw **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kucer, 3

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Sep 29
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Week 5 - at Shaw **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kucer, 4
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Quiz

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Oct 6
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Week 6 - at Shaw **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kucer, 6

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oct 13
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Week 7 - at Shaw **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kucer, 7
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Identify “problem of practice” and annotate three resources on bibliography

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Oct 20
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Week 8 - at Shaw **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gibbons, 1 & 2

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Oct 27
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Week 9 - at Shaw **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gibbons, 3 & 4
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Finish annotated bibliography and describe proposed response

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nov 3
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Week 10 - at Shaw **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kucer 9
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Begin implementing a response to your “problem of practice”

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Nov 10
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Week 11 - at Shaw **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gibbons, 5 & 6

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Nov 17
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Week 12 - at Shaw **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kucer, 10

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Nov 24 - Thanksgiving - no class!
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Week 13 - at Shaw **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nov 20 – Nov 27 Response evaluation and revised articulation of problem

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Dec 1
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Week 14 - at Shaw **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gibbons 7, 8
 * First half of toolbox due

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Dec 8
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Week 15 - at Shaw **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kucer, 12
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Professional Toolbox is due

Dec 10
 * Problem of Practice final paper due

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Thursday, Dec 15, 3:30 - 5:30, Room 216 RC
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Week 16 - on campus **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Final Exam – Present your “problems of practice”