Sept+20

September 20th Class schedule and notes

Goals
 * 1) continue getting to know and trust one another
 * 2) reflect on our own observations about students
 * 3) analyze own classroom experiences through useful lenses derived from readings
 * 4) hone critical thinking through collective discussion of several experiences through the lens of our readings

Schedule of activities

2:00 Gather and review names and website --What do you see the students in your school listening to or reading? What technologies are they allowed to have in school? --What do we notice about wiki posts? Questions about purpose, audience, genre for wiki posting?

2:15 Reviewing Lenses for analysis from the readings & Discussion

To what extent do your students:


 * feel safe (San Antonio and Salzfass 43)?
 * experience "verbal, physical, or psychological abuse or teasing accompanied by real or perceived imbablance of power", i.e. bully or get bullied (San Antonio and Salzfass 42)?
 * trust that teachers have a process for identifying, responding to and reporting bullying (San Antonio and Salzfass 45)?
 * act kindly, with courage, generosity and thoughtfulness (San Antonio and Salzfass 45)?
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">seem secure in their identities and purposes?
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">know how cheating is monitored and what the consequences of cheating are (Strom and Strom 51)?
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">feel pressure from parents and teachers to get high grades (Strom and Strom 51)?
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">see cheating as a cultural norm (e.g. Everyone is doing it, even adults) (Strom and Strom 51)?
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">seem to believe that intelligence is a fixed quality one has or doesn't have (Dweck 59)?
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">receive praise for their performance or for their engagement and perseverance (Dweck 59)?
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">understand how the brain works and grows "smarter" (Dweck 60)?
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">read and write outside of class?
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">play video games?
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">see adults reading and writing to accomplish personally meaningful tasks?

__<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Other Questions and Resources: __ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What your students' out of school literacy practices? What practices are they doing unassisted and unprompted? <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Understanding <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">scaffolded instruction within students' zone of proximal development. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What prior <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|funds of knowledge] do your students possess from their out of school cultures and practices?

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">2:30 Writing "What I Observed about Students"

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">2: 37 Read three "What I Observed" and discuss Why through lenses.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">3:00 Writing "Why Students Are..." and "What might it Mean?"

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">3:07 Read three "Why's" and "Meanings" and Discussion

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">3: 30 Discuss lesson planning. When and what might you teach? What format does your CT use?

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">For next time: Revise your observations of students, adding the "What are the implication for practice" section and post your observations and analysis to your wiki page..

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Do next section of readings and post short summary/responses to wiki by Sunday