November 2011


Math Pedagogy this week wil be devoted to pulling together your interview analysis, sharing drafts of your paper, and reviewing for the course final. For Monday: Bring any of the pieces of this interview paper assignment, as described in the course syllabus.  Also, bring your notebooks with readings, handouts, and course notes. For Wed: Bring drafts [...]

In your writing, please use APA style in citation and reference/bibliography. You can find a quick guide in the following web page: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01

Please create a folder named, “master’s project” in which you will upload (1) “project focus” and (2) “literature review.” The file names will be “project focus_last name” and “literature review_last name”. If I remember correctly, the project focus is due on the 22nd and the literature review is due on the Dec. 8th. If you [...]

For Monday: Complete CMP part 9 – working with parents. Peer review CMP part 8 Planned visit by Matt Boring, principal of CHS, to discuss school-wide student management. Generate 2-3 questions about this topic (or related topics) for his visit.

We will do our video club for the sensemaking instructional activity on Monday.  Please be sure your sensemaking video is up in your ‘Fall pedagogy’ folder and ready to go!

I think I have been waiting too long.   I only have five people (David, Autumn, Marrisa, Ethan, and Jon) sent me a completed strategies.  The rest,  please e-mail me (as well as post it on google docs/fall work sample/) a complete assessment strategies by 23rd.  The file name should be “Assessment Strategies_last name”.   You might [...]

I know at least a few of you are planning on taking SED 599 with me this Winter.  If so, I need to know who you are and when the best time to meet would be.  Last year the group decided to meet on Wednesdays from 11:45-12:45 over lunch.  They wanted to keep all of [...]

I thought you’d all enjoy this.  We hear quite a bit about learning styles (visual learners, auditory learners, etc.).  Here’s a nice video summary of why the theory doesn’t hold up. YouTube Direct Or here’s a story from NPR for you auditory learners… oops.

Please read “The Power of Children’s Thinking” which is in the ‘Science Pedagogy I’ folder.

Registration for winter term courses begins next week.  The times are not quite correct yet in the catalog but I’ve updated the calendar for all of winter term so you can see when they will actually be.  Here is what you need to register for: SED 509 Winter Seminar (Gunn) (CRN#34864) SED 515 Analysis of [...]

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