Mentoring Log for 101.0001


Class Agendas and Assignments for EDU 101.0001
(Tuesday/Thursday 1:50-3:30pm) Fall 2010, 2nd quarter -- Ed Center 112

--A work in progress . . . check back often--
--Date--
--What we will do in class today--
--What you need to have completed before coming to class today--
Th
10/21
class 1
  1. review class wiki--content & navigation
  2. index card activity
  3. laptop check
  4. Bedford Handbook check
  5. chapter 1 assignment

T
10/26
class 2
  1. mentoring project overview
  2. philosophy statement
  3. blog overview
    1. introduction to blogs
    2. blog vs. book analogy
  4. set up blog account
  5. create chapter 1 blog entry
  6. put your blog URL on the class artifacts page but only when you have Mergatroy
  7. look at Bedford Handbook UMF list
  8. revise your first blog entry/entries
  9. how blogs are graded
  10. EDU101 notebook (part 1) assignment
  11. what's an artifact? why are we collecting them?
  12. Bedford focus for chapter 2
  13. 5 quotes assignment
Th
10/28
class 3
  1. questions about mentoring?
  2. 5 quotes assignment , information survey, and other blog entry for homework
  3. Bedford for chapter 2
  4. blog checkup
    1. how blogs are graded
    2. any issues?
  5. group synthesis of answers to chapter 2 questions
  6. discuss certification research assignment
T
11/2
class 4
  1. any questions about Bedford focus for chapters 3 or 4?
  2. share quotes
  3. enter your quote in the artifacts wiki
  4. modified version of chapter 3 assignment
  5. a look at EDU101 notebook (part 1)
  6. discuss chapter 6 assignment
  7. who are schools for brainstorm activity
  8. a little bit of time with your Build A School
  9. Praxis, Practicum, Laptops and Transferring Major --questions anyone?
  10. technology in the classroom survey
Th
11/4
class 5
  1. certification research activity
  2. chapter 3 debate
T
11/9
class 6
Come to Lincoln Auditorium (in Roberts Learning Center) instead of our regular location. We will be attending this presentation:

Be sure to find Dr. Theresa at the presentation and check in with her.
Th
11/11
class 7
Veterans Day--Honor Those Who Served
  1. Build A School team presentations
  2. chapter 4 assignment
T
11/16
class 8
tables in a big circle, sides touching, including the instructor's table
  1. share notebooks
  2. another look at the final notebook and the rubric
  3. what is an artifact and why are we collecting them?
  4. photos on artifacts wiki (Build A School and Parents as Partners)
  5. looking at Blackboard
  6. chapter 4 "activity"
  7. chapter 5 activity
  8. questions about chapter 6?
  9. digital artifacts for chapter 6
  10. discuss: handling appropriateness
  11. discuss: why Build-A-School
  12. "transparent teaching" so far
  13. homework pledge
  • chapter 4 assignment
  • formative assessment
  • read Bedford focus for chapters 7 and 13 (14 is same as 13)
  • be thinking about ways to help students know what's appropriate and what's not and how do you handle it when they cross the line
  • be thinking about why I would've assigned a project like Build A School--what was my motivation, what did I hope you would learn?
Th
11/18
class 9
tables in a big circle, sides touching, including the instructor's table
  1. share chapter 6 classroom plans
T
11/23
class 10
tables in a U so that everyone can see the screen/ front of the class; switch to tables in 4 hexagons
  1. share your resumé
  2. wiki overview
  3. set up a wiki account
  4. meet with your concentration members and work on your professional organization wiki
Th 11/25
Happy Thanksgiving

T
11/30
class 11
tables in a U so that everyone can see the screen/ front of the class; switch to tables in 4 hexagons
  1. discuss and assign standards
  2. last few chapter 6 presentations
  3. philosophy paper reminder & self-assessment
  4. FYI: Portfolio Presentations--plan ahead
  5. humor in the classroom
Th
12/2
class 12
tables in a U so that everyone can see the screen/ front of the class
  1. follow-up to chapter 6
  2. finish humor in the classroom
  3. chapter 14 discussion--teacher leadership
  4. chapter 5 follow-up activity that we never did
T
12/7
class 13
tables in a U so that everyone can see the screen/ front of the class
  1. standards presentations
  2. turn in philosophy papers--write paragraph numbers in the blanks
  3. uploading to TK20
  4. mentoring--are you logging your time? how in-depth are your responses?
  5. a look at Blackboard
  6. celebrate statehood day
  7. professional promise

  8. post your professional organization wiki link to the artifacts page when you get the moose (if it's not already done)
  9. read about peer review in Bedford p. 38
  10. peer review wikis
  11. read about using reviewers' comments Bedford p. 42
  12. using your wiki for your chapter 6 digital artifact
  13. finish the appropriateness activity (yellow paper; G, PG, PG-13; etc.)
  • philosophy paper -- be sure to attach a copy of the rubric with your self-assessment filled out on the bottom
  • standards presentation
  • bring a copy of your graduation plan (what courses do you plan to take and when in order to graduate?...either on paper or on your laptop is fine)
Th
12/9
class 14
tables in a U so that everyone can see the screen/ front of the class
  1. scope and sequence / scaffolding
  2. graduation plan activity
  3. homework pledge
  4. last of professional org. wiki
  5. last two questions
  6. take mentoring survey
  7. evaluations
  • Final EDU 101 notebook (by 1:45--turn in to Education Center 219--Kristin Hickey's office) -- be sure to include a copy of the rubric with your self-assessment filled out on the bottom