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TEACHER EDUCATION SEMINAR
The Learning Community - North Option

EDU6000 Elementary

OISE/UT 2000/2001

The Teacher Education Seminar is designed to help you make connections among your professional courses, practica, and personal experiences. It provides opportunities for you to develop an understanding of the process of becoming a teacher, to nurture personal identity within the teaching role, and to acquire the skills and attitudes to be thoughtful practitioners. In these respects, the Teacher Education Seminar enables you to build a foundation for continuing professional growth in your career as teachers.

Specific dimensions of effective teaching that will be studied in the Teacher Education Seminar include:

  1. Program organization - eg. planning, assessment and evaluation, and effective learning environments
  2. Instructional Repertoire - eg. skills such as framing questions, processes such as Cooperative Learning, use of technology
  3. Classroom Management - eg. strategies for preventing and responding to student misbehaviour
  4. Continuous professional learning - eg. the habits and skills of action research
  5. 'Special Education' - eg. awareness of and sensitivity to needs and abilities, knowledge of services, terminology and processes relating to 'Special Education' legislation and practice
  6. Issues 3 of diversity and equity -eg. culture, ethnicity, race, gender, socioeconomic status, religion, family status, age, sexual orientation, bias
  7. Aspects of professionalism - eg. collaboration, collegiality, knowledge of educational law and reform, professional organizations, employment preparation skills

 COURSE TOPICS AND EXPECTATIONS:

In addition to the graded assignments in our program (see course evaluation and evaluation grid), the following topics and expectations will be included:

1. Instructional Repertoire:

Topics will include:

Instructional Repertoire Expectations: Candidates will:

2. Classroom Management:

Topics will include:

Classroom Management Expectations: Candidates will:

3. Program Organization:

Topics will include:

Program Organization Expectations: Candidates will:

Please note that you will required to submit to your instructors a number of lesson and unit plans for feedback throughout the year.

4. Assessment and Evaluation:

Topics will include:

Assessment and Evaluation Expectations: Candidates will:

5. Diversity and Equity:

Topics will include:

 Diversity and Equity Expectations: Candidates will:

6. Special Education:

Topics will include:

Special Education Expectations: Candidates will:

7. Computer Technology Links:

Topics will include:

Computer Technology Links Expectations: Candidates will:

 8. Action Research:

Topics will include:

The Action Research Process which involves:

Action Research Expectations: Candidates will:

Please note that there is a requirement that you will present and participate in the Action Research Conference on Tuesday, April 17, 2001. An outline of this project will be presented in class.

 9. Internship Program:

Topics will include:

 Internship Expectations: Candidates will:

10. Debriefing (STEP, Practica and Internship Program):

Topics (will vary according to student experiences) and will include:

Debriefing Expectations: Candidates will:

11. Educational Law:

Details will be provided by John McNaughton, Law Instructor.

 Please note that there will be a pass/fail participation evaluation for 'Educational Law' on the basis of a cooperative learning strategy called 'The Team Game Tournament'.

12. Teacher Development:

Topics will include:

Teacher Development Expectations: Candidates will:

Course Evaluation

Three of your major assignments and your mark for Professionalism contributes to your grad in this course as follows:

Portfolio 40 %
Mini-Seminars 20 %
Action Research 20 %
Professionalism 20 %

Required Texts:

Bennett, Barrie & Smilanich, P. (1994). Classroom Management: A Thinking and Caring Approach. Bookation, Ajax, Ontario.

Bennett, Barrie, Rolheiser, Carol, & Stevahn, Laurie (1991). Cooperative Learning: Where Heart Meets Mind. Educational Connections, Toronto, Ontario.

Gibbes, Jeanne (1995). Tribes: A New Way of Learning and Being Together. Center Source, California.

McNaughton, John (2000). The Law Primer. (available at the Bob Miller Book Store)

Sagor, R. (1992). How to Conduct Collaborative Action Research. Alexandria, VA. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. ISBN 0-7120-201-8