home

ED 331: Secondary English Fall 2010 Professor Lindsay Ellis 218 LHH Office hours: Wed 9-11 a.m. and by appointment

Our Schedule:
 * Date || Topic || Reading Due (with summaries/response*) ||
 * Aug 30 || Storytelling ||   ||
 * Sept 13 || Teachers ||  Kaleidoscope Part 1  ||
 * Sept 20 || Students ||  Part 2: 7-9  ||
 * Sept 27 || Students || Part 2: 10-13 ||
 * Oct 4 || Schools || Part 3: 14-17 ||
 * Oct 11 || Curriculum || Part 4: 18-21 ||
 * Oct 18 || Curriculum || Part 4: 22-25 ||
 * Oct 25 || Instruction || Part 5: 26-29 ||
 * Nov 1 || Instruction || Part 5: 30-34 ||
 * Nov 8 || Foundations || Part 6 ||
 * Nov 15 || Reform || Part 7 ||
 * Nov 22 || Technology || Part 8 ||
 * Nov 29 || Diversity || Part 9 ||
 * Dec 6 || Completion || Final Essay Due ||
 * Dec 13 || Reading Aloud || Bring Final Essay ||


 * Click on Readings for the week. Click Edit. Add your summaries/responses to the chapters with your name at the end of your section.

Course Description and Goals: This course is designed to reinforce the methods and strategies used in teaching English that you learned in your methods courses. An important goal is for you to see yourself as a member of the profession and to learn about yourself as a teacher by being immersed in the school and classroom culture for a semester. You will have the chance to observe the daily routine of school from the teacher's viewpoint, to observe veteran teachers in practice, and to practice as a teacher yourself, becoming aware of your ability to interact with students and gaining a better understanding of what it will take to carry out the duties of your chosen career.

Catalogue Course Description: ED 331 Methods and Strategies of Secondary Teaching: Half-day field experience as teacher assistant in a secondary classroom for a minimum of 13 weeks; additional weeks provided for professional development and training to total 15 weeks. Includes two-hour weekly seminars covering content area methodology (with major field advisor) and instructional strategies (with Education field advisor).

Special Needs: If you have unique needs that I should be aware of, or if specific accommodations would enhance your ability to take full advantage of this class, please make these needs known. If there is any student in this class who has special needs because of learning, physical or other disability, please contact me and Disability Support Services (DSS) at 616.331.2490. Furthermore, if you have a disability and think you will need assistance evacuating this classroom and/or building in an emergency situation, please make me aware so I can develop a plan to assist you.

Required Text: Ryan, Kevin and James Cooper Eds. //Kaleidoscope: Contemporary and Classic Readings in Education//. 12th Edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2010.

Weekly Seminar Requirements & Assessed Writing: 1) In preparation for class, please read and **post annotated bibliography entries by Sunday night** (to wiki page linked below). 2) In class each week we will write together, please r**evise and submit this writing online by Thursday**. 3) **Final Paper due Dec 6.** See job sheet.

Our Monday afternoon seminars will be a time for reflecting, documenting, sharing, discussing and questioning your experiences as a TA. You must arrive prepared to think deeply about the experiences of your week in the classroom through the lens of the assigned readings. This necessitates doing the readings. I expect you to attend each seminar for the entire time scheduled. Please make me aware of extenuating circumstances that could affect your attendance. Inform me via email (ellisl@gvsu.edu) if you are not coming and the reason for your absence.

Observations and Lesson Plans

I will observe you teaching twice. One of the two lessons that I observe should be documented and discussed in your final paper. This should be a lesson that you have planned, designed, pre- and post-assessed, perhaps to be taught during your three-week unit or a shorter unit that your CT assigns. I will expect to see a lesson plan for the lesson I observe several days before the observation. When you send me the lesson plan via e-mail, let me know some of the goals for this particular observation, usually an issue that we have covered in class. I will focus on these goals in my observations. I will give you some feedback on the lesson plan before you teach it. It is very important that you and your CT discuss your lesson plans as well. Please schedule 30-45 minutes after the lesson for us to discuss your thoughts on how you did and for me to convey some of my impressions.

Grading: 1/3 from me, 1/3 from COE supervisor, 1/3 from CT. My grade will be a holistic evaluation of your work in this seminar (readings, weekly writings, final paper, and observed lessons). If you would like to negotiate specific weights to these elements of your work, feel free to make an appointment with me to discuss your goals.