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August 26 Introductions; Most Memorable Teachers; Course Overview
September 2 Labor Day - No Class/Campus Closed
September 9 Advantages & Disadvantages of Teaching; Here is the Handout on the Advantages & Disadvantages of Teaching; Historical Foundations: An Overview of the History of Education; Here is the Handout for today's Introduction to History class; Documentary Black, White & Brown: Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka; Read Brown v. Board
September 16 Historical Foundations: School Heirlooms; Grandma’s Credential circa 1911 - What has changed and what hasn’t changed? Documentary A Time for Justice: America’s Civil Rights Movement; Introduction to History Blog - Interviewing the educators and students in our own lives
September 23 DUE: History Blog; Psychological Foundations: Brain-Based Learning; Read 10 Most Effective Tips for Using Brain Based Teaching & Learning by Eric Jensen
September 30 Must read this chapter on Philosophies of Education before entering class today; Philosophical Foundations: Philosophy Activity; Introduction to Philosophy of Education Assignment; Dispositions
October 7 DUE: Philosophy of Education; Sociological Foundations: My Multicultural Self; What is Culture?; My Multicultural Self; Professor Sapp 2.0
October 14 DUE: APP Review Blog; Sociological Foundations: Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality in School; Straightlaced Documentary
October 21 DUE: Please have your History Project done and loaded up to Taskstream by midnight tonight; Gender Blog; Sociological Foundations: Bullying; The Trump Effect
October 28 DUE: Social Justice Blog; Legal Issues in Education; Creative Commons - synthesize this Creative Commons piece for your Legal Issues in Education assignment
LEGAL ISSUES IN EDUCATION ASSIGNMENT: You Summarize these 4 PowerPoint discussions: (1) Dispositions, (2) the cyberbullying part of Bullying, (3) the Legal Issues in Education, and (4) the Creative Commons. Along with each summary, research and provide a new citation on each topic. I use Google Scholar to do this. That would be a journal article citation for dispositions, any aspect of legal issues, cyberbullying, and Creative Commons - a total of FOUR citations. Please use APA citation format. You also have to upload any current certificate for the Mandated Reporter Training.
November 4 DUE: Funds of Knowledge Assignment; Teaching Foundations: An Introduction to lesson Planning Activity; Teacher Performance Expectations (TPEs); Here is the Handout for tonight's class; Here are your “cheat-sheets” for lesson planning: The color-coded handout on Learning Objectives - the A.B.C.D. Method; Accommodations; Creative Lesson Planning - Here is a Word Document of the CSUDH Lesson Plan Format.
Here is Dr. Roberta Benjamin & Dr. Cristina Stephany’s Phase II & III Presentation!
November 11 Veteran's Day - No Class/Campus Closed
November 18 DUE: Legal Issues in Education Assignment; Teaching Foundations: Some Favorite Best Practices I love! Primary Documents; See some examples of ABC Books! Read Jeff’s new chapter on the use of Primary Documents in the STEM field
November 25 No in-person class tonight, but do this online assignment.
December 2. Teaching Foundations: Teacher as reflector of their practice and of their self
December 9 DUE: Documentation of Field Experience; What have we learned? Rituals to close the learning community: PreK-3 - An ABCs Farewell; Grades 4-6 - Hooray for Diffendoofer Day; Grades 6-8 - Plant a seed to be remembered by; Grades 9-12 - Make a toast! (or a Blessing)
DOCUMENTARIES TO WATCH - To watch these films for FREE in the convenience of your own home, go to www.kanopystreaming.com. The resource is FREE (Did I mention that it was FREE?) and all it will ask you for is your email and a password to sign up. Then search for the films by the exact titles below; they’re all there as I just checked.
_____Brown Vs Board of Education: Part of the Series on Supreme Court Decisions That Changed The Nation
_____Eyes on the Prize - America’s Civil Rights Movement 1954-1985 (PBS) - Episode 1 Awakenings 1954-1956
_____No Easy Walk - 1961-1963 (Episode 4 of Eyes on the Prize by PBS)
_____Straightlaced - How Gender’s Got Us All Tied Up (New Day Films)
_____Reviving Ophelia - Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (Media Education Foundaton)
_____Let’s Get Real - Students on Bias & Bullying (New Day Films)