My life in SPU’s ARC program…
September 26, 2007
Motivation:
Biblical Teachings: John 21:11 (153 fish, net didn’t break)
Reality: Changing demographics, achievement gap (why is it there? What is it about those kids?)
Course Structure:
Lecture and Discussion
Get to know ourselves: perceptions, attitudes, biases, influences
Get to know our students: engage, motivate, connect
Do MCE – Bank’s book
Hear different voices: Schlesinger, videos
North American Council for Online Learning (NACOL)
NACOL National Primer on K-12 Online Learning (PDF)
Southern Regional Education Board (SREB)
SREB’s Report on State Virtual Schools(August 2007) (PDF)
SREB’s Online Learning Task Group
Advantages? Disadvantages? Are the means of assessment just as rigorous?
The Teacher I Hope To Become
For me to be the best and most effective teacher I can, I should:
Similarly, I will hope to avoid:
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Teacher Dispositions (the way a teacher is perceived by the class, beliefs from within, habitual inclination, attitudes and orientation towards students, lesson plans, managements, etc.): What behaviors constitute effective teacher dispositions? (patience, creativity, affection for children, observation, flexibility, confidence in authority, passions for what you do, clarity, positive mood.)
SPU Links: SPU Library - Educational Databases - All Databases
Databases: ERIC via EBSCOhost - Education Full Text via Wilson Web
Two Online Tutorials (Use IE): Beyond Google - Web Page Evaluation
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Internship Roles and Responsibilities – what are my roles and responsibilities as an intern? (Handbook pgs 43-50)
1) Sate-Identified Routes in ARC
a) Route 1: Already in school, but no bachelor’s degree
b) Route 2: Working in school as assistant or para, continuing with that job during internship.
c) Route 3: (Most of us) Career change, not much experience in the school, but have experience with kids, etc. Don’t have a wide educational background.
d) Route 4: Already teaching, emergency cert or conditional cert.
2) Classroom Teaching & Learning
I left Wednesday after class for Bellingham, Thursday (way too early in the morning) I got up and got on a charter bus and drove down to central Oregon to Wildhorse Canyon, a YoungLife camp. There, along with the 150 or so kids we brought, 700 middle schoolers had a blast. They swam, played games, climbed walls, participated in huge number of other activities, and most importantly heard about God. It was a great weekend. I made it back to Seattle last night at midnight. I am tired… and sunburnt.
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Writing Lesson Objectives: What are well-written educational objectives?
I. Positive Impact on Student Learning: what is it?
a. My answer: Providing instruction that causes the student to advance in understanding both in content knowledge and in conceptual and analytical thinking. A progression from where they were to something better. Can to reason and apply that learned knowledge to other areas?
b. Other answers: Teaching how to ask questions. How to enjoy learning so they can enjoy it the rest of their lives. How to find meaning in what they are doing, communication of that meaning. Making connections between what they are learning and how they would use that outside of that context. Emotionally develop. Socially and academically developed individual thinkers.
c. State answer: A teacher through instruction and assessment has been able to document students’ increased knowledge and/or demonstration of a skill or skills/or essential academic learning requirements (EALRs). WAC 181-78A-010(8).
d. How do you know you are making a difference? The coordinators will be asking us this question as we go through our internship.
II. Curriculum Planning
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Chemical Dependency Guest Lecture
Social drinker doesn’t want to lose control, alcoholic just wants to drink, needs to change the way they feel.
Balance is main goal, something that addictive personalities need to know and strive forward.
Things to look for: hard to see sometimes because everyone is different.
Look for D.I.T.E.P.
What we can do as teachers to help:
Be Informed – sign of symptoms
Talk, be open (to a degree)
Report
Go through the students’ agenda with them so they know (and you know). What are the consequences?
School Policy
School Consequences
Drug/Alcohol Counselor
http://www.worksourceonline.com/y/virtualservices.html - teen yellow pages
Buzzed: The Straight Facts about the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy