Date | Subject | Plans & Materials |
Homework | Reading |
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Sep 24 | The content of our courses: How did you come to be a teacher? What are the learning goals you set for your course? Project Overview. | session plan | Course Goals | Shulman: "Course Anatomy" | Oct 22 | The context of our courses: How does your course fit in your degree program(s), student demographics, operating constraints. | session plan | Course Context | Read 3 example CP's from repositories Cerbin, 2001 |
Nov 19 | The content of our courses (again): Course anatomy. What do you teach? What are the parts? What are the organizing principles? | session plan | Course Content | Dorst, The Story
behind the Design Huber, Why Now? |
Dec 10 | The ways we teach: Course physiology. how do you teach? What methods? When used? For what purposes? Getting the "how" to fit the "what" and "why" | session plan | Teaching methods | Adprima's Instructional Methods Overview Apple Learning Interchange: Teaching Practice | Jan 7 | Our philosophy of teaching: Why do you teach what you teach? Why do you teach how you teach? What tacit assumptions do your teaching choices embed, especially about how students think and learn? | session plan | Teaching philosophy | Bruner, Folk Pedagogy | Feb 11 | Student learning: What does student work tell you? What are students learning and failing to learn? Do you ask students to undertake work that you value? | session plan | Evidence of student learning | Bernstein, Student Learning Hutchings et al, Focus on Student Learning |
Mar 11 | Assessment: How do you grade? Making criteria explicit. Why do you grade the way that you do? Assessing what you value. | session plan | Assessment | Broad, "What we really value" | Apr 8 | Course Delivery: Debriefing the Self and Peer Observations. What did you learn? | session plan | Self and Peer Observation | UW/CIDR on Peer Observation Hutchings, Peer Observation |
May 6 | Conference Presentation: | presentation (ppt) | Complete Portfolio (Draft) | June 3 | Portfolio presentations | session plan | Final Portfolio & Portfolio presentation | Knox et al., "Peer review" Shulman, "Teaching as community property" |
Sept 29 2007 |
One Year Later | session plan | Pea, Practices of distributed intelligence |