CUIN 32023112: Week 1

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Table Talksign in . . . find your shapes

• What surprised you most about being at your
  school placement?

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Agenda

• Letters from the past
• Cool Tool of the Day
• Addressing the Needs of the Learner
• Essential Questions
• Unit planning
• Teacher inquiry
• Introduction to portfolio assignment

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del.icio.us

• Find all of Dr. Piersons sites of interest on
  the QUEST del.icio.us site linked from our
  Resources page.

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How are students different?

• Recognition learning (what)
• Strategic learning (how)
• Affective learning (why)

• Cultural Needs
• Social Needs
• Physical Needs
• Cognitive Needs
• Emotional Needs

• Language
• Science
• Math
• Social Studies

• Interests
• Attention
• Experience
• Attitude

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Small Group Learning Centers
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Small Group Learning Centers

• First
• Number off 1-5
• Get recording sheet
• Go to your shapes numbered center
• Bring your kids!
• Then
• Do the activity or use the tool (as you!)
• Discuss how your kids would be most successful
  with activity or tool.

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Small Group Learning Centers

• Jobs
• Director
• Task Master
• Learning Difference Specialist
• Recorder
• Clean-Up Encourager

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Ready?Set? Go!
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Why is it beneficial to have students work in
small groups?

• Capitalize on strengths
• Meet needs
• Groups v. cooperative learning groups
• Encourage interaction/participation
• Engage in Problem Solving/Discovery Learning
• Ensure Assessment of both Group Participation
  and Individual Contribution.

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A bit more on lesson planning . . .
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3 Phases of the Instructional Sequence
Teaching/Implementation
Planning/Preparing
Assessment/Reflection
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Writing Instructional Objectives

• Pop-Quiz!

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Answers!

• Correct 1, 4, 9
• Incorrect 2, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12
• Pretty Correct 3, 8, 11

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Writing Instructional Objectives

• The Audience is the group of learners.
• The Behavior is the verb that describes what the
  learner (audience) will be able to do after the
  instruction.
• Conditions are the circumstances under which the
  objective must be met.
• The Degree identifies the standard that the
  learner must meet to reach acceptable
  performance.

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Why do you suppose that some kids lose interest
in school?
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Essential Questions

• Contrast project-based learning based on
  essential questions Edutopia Geo-Literacy
  Forging New Ground
• with thematic units
• Bears
• Apples

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What is an Essential Question? and what isnt?
Based on materials from Intel Teach to the Future
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Essential Questions for Primary Grades

• Traits
• What makes a good . . . ?
• Analysis
• Why do you suppose . . .?
• Speculate, predict, invent or imagine
• If you were asked to ________, how would you
  ________?

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Teacher Inquiry
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Creating an Inquiry Stance toward Teaching

• What does research make you think of?
• Research usually conducted by researchers for
  academic audiences
• Schools are data-driven
• Teacher inquiry is the, systematic, intentional
  study of ones own professional practice. (Dana
  Silva, 2003)
• Inquiring professionals pose questions, collect
  data, analyze, share

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Questioning ones own practice
enhances professional growth
and leads to enhanced experience of children.
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Creating an Inquiry Stance toward Teaching

• Reflection is a part, but
• Intentional
• Visible

http//www.pt3.uh.edu/project/design_1.html
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Finding a Wondering . . .

• Teaching is complex
• The child
• The context
• The content
• The acts of teaching
• The teachers own beliefs and dispositions

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Inquiry 1 A Child

• Listen (and look)
• Observe
• Get a class roster
• Jot down questions for each child
• Decide on a wondering write about your
  choice in your journal (use a pseudonym!)
• Collect 3 types of data - What kind of data might
  you collect to help you answer this wondering?
• Think
• Act
• Share

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Writing Up Inquiry 1(due 2/8 draft in class
and final at night)

• Background and description (What did I see?)
• Design
• Wondering
• Data collected (What else do I need?)
• Patterns (What might it mean?)
• telling the story
• Conclusion
• About 2-3 pages

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Web Portfolios in QUEST 2
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How will we know if you are becoming an effective
teacher?

• We observe you.

You collect evidence.
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What is a portfolio?

• Working Portfolio
• Complete collection of everything
• Reflective Portfolio
• Selective collection of artifacts that meet
  certain criteria
• Presentation Portfolio
• Selective collection of artifacts for a
  particular audience

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What do I put in my portfolio?

• Must include DOCUMENTATION that shows evidence
  that
• CHILDREN have learned during your teaching
  experience.
• YOU have learned from instructors/SBTEs/peers/stud
  ents.

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What will this documentation look like?

• Text files (no .docx)
• Presentations
• Digital photos (need permission)
• Scanned student work
• Videos of you teaching or of a process
• Other?
• Examples
• http//viking.coe.uh.edu/sdavis84/
• http//viking.coe.uh.edu/jworrell/
• http//viking.coe.uh.edu/mepompa/

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Your portfolio is your assessment of you!

• The good
• The bad
• The ugly
• YOU tell the story of your becoming a teacher!

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What, specifically, do I need to do to set it up?
(by next week)

• Headings on your homepage
• Working
• Reflective (this is from QUEST 1)
• Presentation
• Link Working to QUEST 2 table of contents
• Link QUEST 2 TOC to 3202/3112 TOC
• Use template on Resources Page!!

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Extra Credit Opportunities

• Student Teaching Fair February 29th
• Jordan Hill coming at end of class
• Girl Scouts March 31st

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Before I see you again

• Have you
• made us your friends on LiveJournal.
• Sent your URLs to Niki?
• Once you go to your school
• Schedule 1st teaching observation with SBTE and
  facilitator download lesson plan template.
• Begin collecting data for your Teaching Inquiry
  1 (the Child) bring draft to class in two
  weeks
• Set up your portfolio
• Set up your del.icio.us account

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Exit Ticket

• What are three ways that you will ensure you meet
  the needs of all of the individuals in your class?