Ms.+Kenyon's+Class

==="Teachers--at kindergarten level, as at university level--form a noble army accomplishing daily feats, never praised, never decorated. An army forever on the move, forever vigilant. An army without drums, without gleaming uniforms. This army, thwarting traps and snares, everywhere plants the flag of knowledge and morality." //So Long a Letter by// [|Mariama Bâ]===

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10:00 - 10:10 Eric Kuehn 10:10 - 10:20 Brent Newer 10:20 - 10:30 10:30 - 10:40 10:40 - 10:50 10:50 - 11:00 11:00 - 11:10 11:10 - 11:20 11:20 - 11:30 11:30 - 11:40 Christopher Vens 11:40 - 11:50 Kelly Karalash 11:50 - 12:00 Sarah Dawn
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Kenyon's Course Calendar

Lesson Plan Archive

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Wide Spread Sexual Harassment in Schools - NYT Article

[|Let Kids Rule the School]

SAG Info - October Meeting

[|Response to Bullying Legislation]

SAG Info- November

LGBTQ Presentation

[|American Teacher Documentary Information]

Field Placement Team Pages [[file:FieldPlacementProject1.pdf]][[file:Starting_Senior_Placements_SocSt.ppt]]
Bath MS Sexton Carpenter Grand Ledge Sexton Rubio Holt HS New Covenant

006 Class Members Page 006 Mission Statements What we need to learn lists Modern Middle East Topics Understanding By Design Resources 006 Semester Outline Eastern Hemisphere Lesson Plans City State, Civilization, Empire Lesson Plan Attention Grabbers

Hidden Curriculum Clips

SAG Notes

Exam Week
Turn in Portfolios (Instructions on how coming soon!)

Wednesday December 7
PRESENTATIONS Feel free to bring food to pass around as we celebrate one semester completed!

Monday December 5
1. Guest Speaker 2. Report In to Elizabeth on PGDPs

Wednesday November 30
Meet in field placement groups to finish and finalize presentations.

// Assignment // Reflection: Go to the below site, take the test... [] and respond to how well it fits you and if you think it is helpful in understanding how you learn.

Monday November 28
1. Thanksgiving Weekend Check-in 2. Field placement jig-saw 3. PDGP Plan, Finishing PPPs and Final Presentations

Monday, November 21
1. Jig Saw 2. Presentation Rubric for Final Project 3. Thanks giving plans?
 * Technology [|Article]
 * Gender [|Article]
 * Poverty [|Article]
 * Gifted [|Article] [|Article]
 * Special Needs [|Article]


 * Wednesday, November 16**

12:40-2:30 1. Field Placement Groups and Enduring Understandings 2. Friends, to be or not to be. 3. Kelly 1:45 - 2:30

4:10 - 6:00 1. Concept Micro Teach 2. Attention Getting Mania //Assignments//
 * //PPP//
 * Either, email your corresponding colleague to ask how they get to know their students and also what limits they put on their relationships with students OR write about the teacher you were closest to in either middle or high school, why was this teacher important to you? How did it impact what you did in his or her class?

Monday, November 14
Knowing Our Students

1. Odds and Ends (Kelly on Wednesday) 2. Life - Readings Connection Share-out 3. Class Reset 4. Evaluation with Enduring Understandings

//Assignments//


 * Instructional Strategies: The Learner (all of Chp 4) pgs 89-110
 * The New Teacher Book: Should I try to be a friend to my students? pg 19

Wednesday, November 9
12:40 - 2:30 1. Micro-teach Concept Formation 2. Attention grabbers

4:10 - 6:00 .5 Curriculum Diagrams 1. Designing Field Placement Research Questions 2. PPP 3. Feedback and the Enduring Understandings

//Assignments//
 * //PPP//
 * Reflection - Anything you remember, or want to ask about our visit with Ben at Haslett Middle.

Monday, November 7
1. Standards Readings 2. Text Books! 3. Field Placement Time

//Assignments//


 * The New Teacher Book:Standards and Tests Attack Multiculturalism (chp 3) pgs 169-179
 * The New Teacher Book: Dealing with Standardized Tests (chp 3) pgs 221-226
 * The New Teacher Book: Reading Between the Bubbles: Teaching Students to Critically Examine Tests (chp 3) pgs 227-235

Wednesday, November 2
12:40 - 2:30 VISIT BEN PINEDA'S CLASS AT HASLETT MIDDLE SCHOOL!!! **ARRIVE AT 12:45** 4:10 - 6:00 Debrief visit, PPP.

//Assignments//
 * PPP
 * Reflection: Describe crucial (memorable) aspects of the hidden and null curricula that you experienced in secondary school. (ie what did you learn from school that was not academic, or what did you understand to be important or not important based on what you were taught or were not taught)

Monday, October 31
1. Types of Curriculum Types of Curriculum 2. Text Book Review 3. Concept Formation - Getting started. //Assignments//
 * Instructional Strategies, "Concept Formation" Chp 7 pgs 151-166.

Wednesday, October 26
Lab 1. Odds and Ends 2. Second Questioning Microteach (10 minutes each) 3. Field Placement Group meetings or SAG meeting prep.

Seminar 1. Discuss Tyranny of Coverage - as a group, make up a study sheet for the chapter. 2. 30-50 Trees 3. What is Curriculum again? 4. //Assignments//
 * Read the Tyranny of Coverage [[file:The Tyranny of Coverage.pdf]]
 * Read Instructional Strategies, "Defining the Curriculum" Chp 1 pgs 8-24.
 * Reflection: (A)What surprised you most about this reading? (B) What would you argue were the strongest influences on how social studies began? (C) In what ways might the foundations of social studies impact what we do or don’t do today? (reference the last full paragraph on pg 91 as well as the one that follows it)

Monday, October 24
1. Check In 2. 407 Cross Section Colloquium Rm 252

Wednesday, October 19 (SEMESTER MIDTERM)
Lab 1. First Questioning Micro Teachings with Feedback 2. What did we learn? Case Study 3. Professional Practice Portfolios

Seminar CURRICULUM! 1. Agree / Disagree about Curriculum 2. Discuss Dubois and Jesse Jones reading 3. Watch and discuss[| Chimamanda Adichie]

//Assignments//
 * Come with a prepared 5-7 minute Questioning Lesson Plan
 * Professional Practitioner Portfolio
 * Reflection: How will you teach about Columbus after our discussion the other day? Why?
 * Read [[file:Johnson__WEB_Dubois__Thomas_Jesse_Jones_.pdf]]

Monday, October 17
1. Weekend Check In - most memorable moment 1.5 Wrap up and share out from last week 2. Look at Sample Assignment [|website for writings]

Persuade the reader of your essay to accept your position. Defend your opinion with specific reasons and examples.
 * Writing Situation:** Many teens set up web pages with personal photos and profiles describing their interests. Some parents fear their teens’ web postings might reveal too much personal information. They want to be able to monitor teen web communities. Many teens, however, believe that such monitoring is a violation of their privacy.
 * Directions for Writing:** Write an essay in which either (1) you support the viewpoint that parents should have the right to monitor teens’ personal web pages or (2) you support the viewpoint that this monitoring is a violation of teens’ privacy.

3. Develop rubrics in groups 4. Grade papers group/individual 5. Debrief

Wednesday, October 12
Lab 1. Modeled Questioning Lesson 2. Discuss lesson and reading on Questioning video 3. Create a question sequence in your groups [|video2] 4.

Seminar 0. Professional Practioner Portfolios 1. Look over lesson plan options 2. Start group developed lesson plans 3. Share out lesson plans 4. Revisit Assessment 5. Feedback Five

// Assignments //
 * Read: Instructional Strategies, "Questioning" Chp 6 pgs 133-150
 * Professional Practitioner Portfolio
 * Reflection: How do you feel about the process of creating a professional growth and development plan? Do you think this is a useful task? Would it have usability in a middle school or high school classroom?
 * Email your corresponding colleague and ask him or her what sorts of assessments they use and why.

Monday, October 10
1. Odds and Ends 2. Claire Yates with UBD Stage 2 Assessment

Wednesday, October 5
Lab 0. Odds and Ends (Upcoming Events, Professional Growth Plans) 1. Micro Teach 10 minute Lectures with Feedback 2. Debrief 3. What is Questioning?

Seminar 1. Professional Practitioner Portfolios 2. Discuss Assessment 3. Model Lesson Plan 4. Begin Group Developed Lesson Plans 5. Feedback Five

//Assignments//
 * Come with a prepared 10 minute lecture on a topic of your choice
 * Read //Instructional Strategies// "An Introduction to Assessment" (Chp 2) pgs 35-44
 * Arrive with a completed Professional Practitioner Portfolio piece to share out with your group
 * Reflection: Respond to the Sir Ken Robinson video. How does this change your understanding of the harm that Phyllis talked about? Do you agree with Robinson? How as social studies teachers can we foster the creativity Robinson is describing? What other thoughts do you have?

Monday, October 3
1. Weekend Check in, High/Low, SAG Report 2. Discuss Fendler Article 3. Finalize Professional Growth Plans 4. Watch Do Schools Kill Creativity?

//Assignments//
 * Read "Edwin and Phyllis" by Lynn Fendler [[file:Fendler Conversation.pdf]]

Wednesday, September 28
Lab 0. Jessica's Question 1. 5 Minute Micro Teachings with Feedback 2. Debrief - What did we learn 3. Go over Instructional Strategy reading 4. Watch Mr. Wendell's Class 5. SAG Prep (last 10 minutes)

Seminar 1. Professional Practitioner Portfolios 2. Go over Professional Growth Plan assignment 3. Start drafting plans 4. Feedback Five

// Assignment //
 * Come with a prepared five minute direct instruction, or lecture about Christianity in the Middle East Today. You will be presenting your lecture to a group of five other students during lab.
 * Reflection: Post the response from your colleague consultant about unit plans. If you have not heard back write about anything that has troubled or inspired you about teaching the past few weeks.
 * Read //Instructional Strategies// Chp 5 "Lecture and Direct Instruction" pgs 113-131.

Monday, September 26 - (Seminar)
1. Modeling a Unit Plan 2. Group Developed Unit Plans 3. Share Out 4. Good Teaching/Teacher Evaluations Article


 * 1) Ancient Egyptian Civilization for a 7th grade Eastern Hemisphere class
 * 2) The War of 1812 for an 8th grade US history class
 * 3) The Amazon Rain Forest for a 9th grade World Geography class
 * 4) The Enlightenment for a 10th grade World History class
 * 5) The US prison system for a high school sociology class
 * 6) Alcohol use for a middle school Current Issues class

// Assignment // - Read the following two pieces on objectives and lesson planning Instructional Strategies pgs 25-35, Chp 2 first 10 pages.

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// Assignments for 9/21: //
 * Reflection on the following: A) What has been most difficult in planning this unit so far? B) Do you think units should be planned chronologically? around a theme? through enduring understandings? a combination? Why?

Monday, September 19 - (Seminar)
1. Guest Teacher: Claire Yates on Understanding By Design 2. Continue Developing Unit Plan on the "The Modern Middle East" // Assignments for 9/19: //
 * Read the following two readings:[[file:Onosko Thoughtful Units.pdf]][[file:B.D. pdf.pdf]]
 * Email Colleague Consultant and ask how they develop a unit plan and decide what is most important to teach

Week Three
Michigan High School Content Expectations

Wednesday, September 14 - (Seminar)
1. Finish Theme Generation Activity 2. Come up with class name. 3. As a class, engage in practice planning a two-week social studies unit on "The Modern Middle East"

//Assignments for 9/14:// >
 * 1) Consult the Michigan State Standards to identify learning objectives to be met by this unit.
 * 2) Develop essential questions with concentric circles of knowing  related to your unit’s content.
 * Complete second RRT post on teacher characteristics and attributes. A) Keeping in mind that there are many models of good teaching, describe some attributes or characteristics that good teachers possess. (B) Reflect on your own strengths and weaknesses as a teacher at this point, what are some areas you are strong in? Where do you have room for improvement? (C) What are some things you need to learn or skills you need to practice to improve your teaching?
 * Email Colleague Corespondent and ask them what they remember from their senior year of teacher preparation. What were they glad that they learned and what do they wish they had learned.
 * //Read pp. 9-34 in __The New Teacher Book__ (Chp 1 from How I Survived My First Year through "What should I wear to school")//
 * //Read pp. 47-72 in __Instructional Strategies__ book (Chp 3 through "The Lesson Plan" stop at "The importance of Reflection")//[[file:LarsonKeiper.pdf]]

Week One Readings


In the News... http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/story/2011-09-11/bullying-lawsuits-parents-self-defense-courts/50363256/1