Session #1 - The First Days: Classroom Preparation and Management

Learning Outcomes:

CLO 5253.1 - Offer alternative instructional suggestions and strategies that address the specific needs of California’s diverse student population.

CLO 5253.6 - Balance theory, research, and practice.

Essential Questions:

- How do you teach English Language Arts in a Single Subject Assignment?

- How do we learn about our students?

- How can you best utilize instructional time?

- How do you create a supportive social environment in the classroom?

Agenda:

● Introductions

● Course Overview & Requirements

● Classroom Management

● Class Rules/Policies & Course Expectations

● The Common Core

Information:

Standards: TPEs, REAL, ELD, Common Core (all these are required in your lesson & unit plans)

Read the appropriate Common Core standards for your class or class you plan to teach and choose the standard(s) for your unit plan. We will be discussing the Common Core approach. (The culminating project is a Unit Plan you will create for your grade and subject level. It will encompass all conceptual areas of this class. You will also be creating detailed lesson plans using the LMU lesson plan template for beginning teachers.

Make it REAL. LMU's mission in the education field is to make teachers leaders in education. Teachers are to be the standard-bearers for our vocation. See LMU's REAL. (Download REAL pdf). REAL = Respect, Educate, Advocate, and Lead - LMU's School of Education's mission involves more than the teaching of academic standards. Teachers from LMU have this mission in common: our purpose to be the encouragement of life-long learning and academic excellence, the education of the whole person, and the promotion of service and justice for all. You will need to refer to REAL when you create your LMU lesson plans.

California expects not only students to meet certain standards, but also the teachers. These are called the Teacher Performance Expectations (TPEs). Not only are there standards for students, but there are standards for teachers as well.

ELD Standards and descriptors are found here (pdf). If you have English Learners in your classes, you must familiarize yourself with how they are identified and provide support for their learning. Even if you do not have "identified" English learners, you do have those who struggle in English. These standards and strategies are for ALL students.

Create lessons plans (5 lessons this semester) and a unit plan (due early next semester) you will actually use in your teaching. No sense wasting time creating lessons you will never use. So choose wisely and for the future.)

3. Print/Save or simply Bookmark the Common Core Standards for grades you teach or plan to teach. Be prepared to identify appropriate standards for all your lesson plans. Note - there are 5 components for EACH of your teaching assignments:

Reading Literature

Reading Informational Texts

Writing

Speaking and Listening

Language

Be sure you identify the appropriate standards for your lesson plans.

4. See Recommended Literature: Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve and choose ONE novel for your novel unit plan and start reading.

5. Read and be prepared to discuss next session:

· Burke, chap 1 “What We Teach: (Re)Defining English as a Discipline” (pp. 1-20). The publisher placed Chapter 1 online if have not ordered/received the book. This book is EXCELLENT. You truly need this book at this point of your teaching career. Nor can you make due with a previous edition. Although the older versions are also excellent, the book has been completely revised. You NEED the 4th edition.

· Burke, Ch. 2: “Who We Teach: Understanding and Teaching the Next Generation”

Next Steps:

Reading for this course is front-loaded. Get ahead.

Week 5: First Lesson Plan due.