Assignments (Samples are provided for Subject Area and Project-Based Learning)
The assignments are designed to further your understanding of the Four Commonplaces of Schooling:
• Teacher: What is your emerging identity as teacher?
• Subject Matter: What are your foundational, theoretical and practical knowledge and skills?
• Students: Who are your learners?
• Milieu: What is the significance of context?
Teacher:
Introductory letter (Draft due: Jan. 14th, 2009: Final draft: Jan. 21st, 2009)
This letter will be developed to introduce yourself to your EPS instructor and your pre-internship cooperating teacher. Please note: You will update this letter to share with your internship cooperating teacher during the Fall 2009 Internship Seminar.
Professional Portfolio (Due: Final week of classes)
Please note: It is important to be working on this portfolio throughout the semester.
To reflect a more holistic and complex understanding of our lives as teachers, we are imagining that your teaching portfolio would be a space to develop and share your insights in relation to each commonplace and their interactions. At the end of this term, we will celebrate your gifts and strengths at a small group presentation to your peers where you share aspects of your growth as documented in your portfolio. Guiding questions to think about: Who am I as a teacher? How have I changed and grown as a person/professional? What surprised me in my experiences? What are my strengths as an educator? What have I learned about high school students? What challenges did I have? What would I change about high schools if I could? What are my goals for my internship?
Subject Matter:
Subject Area Study (In-class time will be provided): (Due: January 26th, 2009)
Please note: See below for more details
You will examine your subject discipline as a unique way of “knowing” and gaining knowledge. With others from your subject area you will present a 15 minute presentation to the class. Your group will also be responsible for submitting a “group report” answering several specific assigned questions.
Example: Environment through the lens of English, Science, Math, Music, and so on. (Become the expert in your subject area)
Subject Area Presentations
Section 10:
Interdisciplinary Project-Based Learning (In-class time will be provided): (Due: February 11th, 2009) Please note: Refer to textbook
You will meet with your staff group to explore a cross-curricula topic to achieve specific outcomes/objectives and to identify resources to plan for Project Based Learning.
Example: Environment focus as a school, grade levels or specific grade. (Share your ideas in your specific area of expertise and design an interdisciplinary project)
Project-Based Learning Plans
Section 20:
Healthy Living on a Limited Budget
Dessert Theatre- Let’s Understand Afghanistan
Section 30:
PBL Cathedral High Community Park Cleanup
PBL Interlaken Community Water Campaign
PBL Mcgruber Outdoor Field Trip
PBL Obama High Waste Free Lunches
Students and Milieu:
Field Notes: (Please bring your field notes to the March 25th class for in-class assignment)
Through interaction with students (in class, informal conversations, extracurricular activities, observation, student assignments, and so on), you will explore who your learners are, what is important to them, their strengths and desires, and the contexts in which they live. You will gather and compile this information to be a part of a case study in which you note common themes and patterns that begin to emerge and raise questions about equity. You will select one of these themes or patterns to investigate, research and report.
Case Study: (Due: Week of April 6th) Representation of your case study is in a format of your choice such as Digital storytelling, blog, scrapbook, learning centre, pamphlet/brochure, bulletin board, multimedia, artistic expression. Take note of the common themes and patterns that begin to emerge and how this relates to social justice in the high school. You will select one of these themes or patterns to investigate, research, and report your case study to your staff group. Please refer to attached handout for case study guidelines.
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