Enter Your Contact Information in the Google Docs form [here]
Read the article by Lee Shulman describing teacher pedagogy and criteria [here]
Read pages 4 - 6 Yesterday's Examinations and Today's Standards,
Read pages 6 - 8 Content and Pedagogy in the History of the Academy, The Missing Paradigm
Read pages 9 - 14 A Perspective on Teacher Knowledge and Forms of Knowledge
Construct a one-page summary of pages 4-10 from the article. Describe what you gather from it, any particulars, and details that seem important as you develop into an effective classroom teacher. Due next week June 5, 2014.
Download the syllabus
Complete the required readings in the "Start Here" link to the left
Create a Google site account click [here]
Access this site to take notes. Click [here] Copy the entire page and paste into your Google site [verbatim]
Log into Livetext click [here], Contact customer support if you have problems or email me at mrstinson34@gmail.com. Send me a screencapture of your active Livetext screen.
Word of the day: Paradigm
Paradigms are a set of beliefs and feelings about the world and how it should be understood and studied; they guide the actions of researchers and contain the epistemological, ontological, and the methodological premises of researchers.
Video has become the mainstream communication to informing the audience in the 21st Century. Watch this video from Ted talks to stay informed of current trends and be captivated by those who are visionaries of our time. Ted Talks
EYEJOT Activity
You will need a microphone, web cam, or these items maybe built into your computer to make a recording.
1) Please visit http://www.eyejot.com/ 2) Open a free account. 3) Record a brief introduction about yourself then reflect on the Lee Shulman readings and videos from June 5, 2014. No set time limit.
Eyejot Tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oEPCcc8qyI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw0octEoRIs
Make sure you use “good lighting” so that your face and background show clearly. Share the link by in the assignment below
Share your Eyejot link by submitting the assignment here. You should hyperlink the link by highlighting [here] then clicking the Globe above. It should look like this
Eyejot [here]
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Student Eyejot recordings
Cubie Hayes [here]
Odessa Thornton [here]
Use this module to construct your Google site pages Paste all assignments in your site as well as in Livetext. Watch the videos to assist building your site. Make your site by June 26, 2014.
June 12, 2014
Assignment due June 26, 2014
Use this module to construct your Google site pages Paste all assignments in your site as well as in Livetext. Watch the videos to assist building your site.
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Google Sites Walkthrough
Duration: (36:10)
User: sarahdateechur - Added: 12/23/13
Youtube Video: Radford University
Youtube video made: Adding pages to Google site portfolio
Creating a Google Site (Start to Finish)
Duration: (51:18)
User: bradrcd - Added: 12/5/11
Begin this assignment by creating a Google site [click here]
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Use this website [here] as a model for ideas to designing your site.
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Click [here] for another example.
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You may view one that I developed for teacher workshops [here].
Step 1. Make another page in your Google site headed "Teacher Evaluation"
Step 2. Include the five pdf files from Charlotte Danielson Framework for Teacher Evaluation [here] located in the middle of the page.
Step 3. Download each (5) to include in your site.
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Step 1. Paste the link to the ELA anchor standards [here] into your Google site [here]
Step 2. Click the link to Alex [here] to download teacher material to link to your Google site.
Step 3. Embed this [here] into your Google site.
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KHAN Academy
Step 4. Link the KHAN Academy to your site [here]. Link no less than five (5) videos of your content area into your Google site. Access the content areas by clicking on Watch at the top for a dropdown menu. It does not allow you to embed unless you go through Youtube.
1) Math [here] Each discipline (Algebra, Geometry, Trig Precal, Diff Eq, Brain Teaser)
2) Biology [here] Each discipline (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Organic Chemistry)
3) History [here] Each Discipline (Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, History, American Civics, Finance)
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Step 5. Look at what other districts created
English [here] ALEX and Walker County ELA Curriculum [here]
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Step 6. Upload the documents from the lesson plan folder on your jumpdrive in the Google site
University of Connecticut Learning Center
CCSSO Adolescent Literacy Toolkit
Copy and paste this into your site: Getting Off to a Good Start
Getting Off to a Good Start
Perspectives on the Beginning of the Year
1. Resolve student uncertainties
2. Help students be successful by planning uncomplicated lessons
3. Keep whole-class focus
4. Be available, visible, and in charge
Planning for a Good Beginning
Procedures for obtaining books and checking them Out to Students
Required Paperwork
Class Rosters
Seating Assignments
First-Week Bell Schedule
Tardiness During the First Day of Classes
Administrative Tasks
Rules
Course Requirements
A Beginning-of-Class Routine
Alternative Activities
Activities on the First Day of Classes
Before Class Begins
Administrative Tasks
Introductions (making eye contact)
Discussion of Class Rules
Presentation of Course Requirements
An Initial Content Activity
Ending the Period
The Second Day of Classes
1. Identify new Students and get them seated
2. Restate the beginning-of-class routines, and use it to start the period
3. Review your major rules and procedures
4. If you did not discuss course requirements on the first day, do so now
5. Close the period