Tentative Schedule

Tentative Schedule for Winter 2015 (last updated 1/5/14):

Week 1

1/5—Introductions, Syllabi, Assignments, Expectations, etc…

1/7—Reading and Blog Post: “Discussion as a Way of Teaching” (Handout)

Week 2

1/12—Reading and Blog Post: English Language Arts Common Core State Standards available                at www.corestandards.org (Please focus on the Reading Standards for Literature and the              Reading Standards for Informational Text) and Beach, Thein, and Webb’s “The                          Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts Instruction in Grades 6-12:                  Origins, Goals, and Challenges” (Handout)

1/14—Reading and Blog Post: "SIOP (Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol): 8 Components and 30 features" available at  http://esol.leeschools.net/SIOP/pdf/SIOP%208.pdf

Week 3

1/19—No Class, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

1/21—Reading and Blog Post: Langer’s “A Response-Based Approach to Reading Literature” available at http://www.albany.edu/cela/reports/langer/langerresponsebased.pdf

Week 4

1/26—Reading and Blog Post: Paulo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” Chapter 2 available athttp://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/philosophy/education/freire/freire-2.html

1/28—Reading and Blog Post: Peter McLaren’s “Critical Pedagogy: A Look at the Major Concepts” available at http://cidocstudents2012.wikispaces.com/file/view/Critical+Pedagogy+Major+Concepts.pdf

Week 5

2/2—Reading and Blog Post: Duncan-Andrade and Morrell’s “Critical Pedagogy and Popular Culture in an Urban Secondary English Classroom” (Handout)

2/4—What is Social Justice? Why is it important for our classrooms?

            Reading and Blog Post: Individual Exploration

Week 6

2/9— Reading and Blog Post: Tovani’s “I Read it, but I don’t get it”

2/11—Creating Lesson Plans

Reading and Blog Post: TPA guidelines (Handout)

Week 7

2/16—No Class, Presidents' Day

2/18—Reading and Blog Post: Gallagher’s “Readicide”

Week 8

2/23—Reading and Blog Post: Beach, Appleman, Hynds, and Wilhelm’s “Assessing and Evaluating Students’ Learning: How Do You Know What They Have Learned?” (Handout)

2/25—Reading and Blog Post: "Secondary Standards-Based Grading and Reporting Handbook" available at https://pathubert.wikispaces.com/file/view/Secondary+Standards+Based+Grading+and+Reporting+Handbook.pdf

Week 9

3/2—No Class--Individual Meetings will replace this class meeting

3/4—Book Talks 

Week 10

3/9—Mini-lessons (Alexie and Salisbury) *Please note that we will meet until 5:30pm on this day.

3/11—Mini-lessons (Shakespeare, Satrapi, and Poe)

Week 11

3/16—Unit Plans Due, Discussion of Unit Plans, Course Evaluations

*Learning Letters Due to your blog by Friday, 3/20, at noon.