For Tuesday, June 29, 2010:
1. Read Chapters 1-3 of Constructivist Classroom within Advisory Groups
2. Bring an Artifact for Opening Circle
For Wednesday, June 30, 2010:
1. Be Prepared with your 3 Chapters of Constructivist Classroom.
2. Opening Circle Thoughts: What type of community is within your school?
For Thursday, July 1, 2010:
1. Meet at the Tech College at 9 AM ready for the tour.
For Friday, July 2, 2010:
1. Is it malpractice if you fail students without assessing them to their strengths?
Within the next two weeks: Before our next meeting:
1. Buy Even Eagles Need a Push.
2. Buy StrengthFinder 2.0 and Read the introduction and take the online survey about your strengths. Bring the printout of your findings to class.
3. Subscribe to ASCD student subscription over the phone.
4. Preview the ASCD that you took from class and read an interesting article.
-Be prepared to share your findings.
5. Bring a "Best Practice" that you do in your classroom or school.
6. Research poverty within your county and district.
-Be prepared to share your findings.
For Tuesday, July 19, 2010
1. Meet in Library for Teaching sessions
For Wednesday, July 20, 2010
1. Bring your research on Poverty Statistics
2. Organize your thoughts on the student presentations you saw
For Thursday, July 21, 2010
1. StrengthFinder Survey
2. Thoughts on starting your project
For Friday, July 22, 2010
1. Reflect on your growth through this program - to this point.
For August
1. Respond to the blog.
For September
1. Read Chapters 1-3 in The Power of Questions: A Guide to Teacher and Student Research By: Beverly Falk and Megan Blumenreich
2. Read Chapter 1 in Even Eagles Need a Push
3. Try something new from grad class in your classroom or school and be prepared to report back to the class.
4. Finish your legacy assignment and write a letter to someone that made an impact in your life. (living or dead)
5. Within the first couple of weeks of school, blog about an experience that you have had within school. You may want to check back and see what experiences others are having, or if you can help answer any of their questions. Have fun with this.
For October
1. Collect data on your strength action plan.
2. Collect data on finding student strength.
3. Bring a best practice.
4. Bring ASCD magazine.
5. Read Even Eagles Need a Push Chapters 2-4
6. Read Entertaining an Elephant
7. Try a "Fish Activity" with your class.
8. Check in with your principal and let him/her know what you are thinking about for your project.
For November
1. Bring ASCD magazine.
2. Bring a best practice.
3. Read Even Eagles Need a Push Chapter 5.
4. Run your project idea past your Principal.
5. Bring in observations about homework.
6. Bring something you created with technology.
7. Find out your students passions and do something extra with two of your students that might struggle or need a little motivation or push.
For December
1. Bring ASCD magazine.
2. Read an article from an ASCD magazine and post on the main page a brief description and the so what?
3. Bring the homework observations you did for November.
4. Have your project introduction ready to edit.
5. Stand outside your door and great students the first week, do something a little special the second week, and the third week do not stand outside your door. Bring your observations.
6. Continue to collect resources. Eventually you will need 15 resources and 7 of which you will use for your project.
7. Reading assignments will follow, as soon as I receive them.
For January
1. Read chapter 6 in Eagles and do activity on computer to represent ideas. Identify the most important elements for your group. Individuals use your computer to create a visual summary capturing the most important points. Us a power point, paintbrush creation, wordle document, wiki page, blog entry, voki message, photo collage, or something else that’s new and creative. Then we will gallery walk among the computers and explore your technology creations to see if we can identify the important elements captured by your group.
2. Bring ASCD article to discuss
3. Do something with students in the spirit of Christmas/helping
4. Send us your competencies update
5. Project introduction completed for final editing
6. Tips for teachers
7. Have 15 resources to start literature review
8. 316 group: Continue k-12 readings/reflections
2-3 reading assessment tools/strategies
Document list of articles found
Literature review.
For February
1. Read the rest of "Even Eagles" and experiment with technology on how you want to bring across the information as it pertains to your life.
2. Bring ASCD article
3. Send us your updated competencies with evidence.
4. Solution Session - Bring an issue or problem which you would like to run past the group.
5. Have 15 resources for literature review. Continue to work on Lit. Review ideas.
For March
1. Personal Development Plan
2. World is Flat Chapter 1
3. Lit Review completed
4. Bring ASCD
5. Leonardo Activity:
-Talk to a spouse/ significant other/ parent/ friend/ colleague. (pick 3)
Have them answer the following questions (you may not have dialog with them because this is a listening exercise.)
question 1: What are my biggest strengths?
question 2: What are things I could work on? (be truthful)
Reflect on what this means in your personal development plan.
6. Bring observations of grading practices in your school
7. Start the implementation section of your paper.
For April
1. Bring a finalized Personal Development Plan
2. Bring ASCD
3. Finish Leonardo Activity:
-Talk to a spouse/ significant other/ parent/ friend/ colleague. (pick 3)
Have them answer the following questions (you may not have dialog with them because this is a listening exercise.)
question 1: What are my biggest strengths?
question 2: What are things I could work on? (be truthful)
Reflect on what this means in your personal development plan.
4. Work on implementation section of your paper
5. Prepare a presentation that will get everyone involved in your groups flatteners
Flattener 1&2 - TBP
Flattener 3&4 - AKSK
For May
1. Bring a finalized Professional Development Plan
2. Bring ASCD
3. Finish Implementation section of your paper
4. Work on how does your project live on after the master's program.
5. Prepare a presentation that will get everyone involved in your groups flatteners
Flattener 5&6 - TBP
Flattener 7&8 - AKSK
6. Read "A Tale of Two Crises" and bring your thoughts
7. Bring a best practice
8. Register for summer classes ASAP
Regular Class Registration: (total of 7 credits)
EDU 536 - Leadership II (2 credits)
EDU 690 - Culm. Demo III (1 credit)
EDU 604 - Bringing Change II (1 credit)
EDU 537 - School Com. Relations (2 credits)
EDU 608 - Learner Centered II (1 credit)
Reading 316 Class Registration: (total of 9 credits)
EDU 536 - Leadership II (2 credits)
EDU 573 - Diag. of & Resp. to ... (3 credits)
EDU 574 - Dev. Reading Prac. (3 credits)
EDU 690 - Culm. Demo III (1 credit)
