SMED Licensure Cohort 2011-2012

For your records.  Here’s a copy of the Space suit challenge the campers did during media day this year.  With a little work it would be a great engineering design challenge.  

Your final grades for SED 509 and 552 or 553 have been entered.  It may take up to a day before you can see them in the system. You first received a grade specifically for your work with the students in the camp (courses and team projects) in SED 509 (2 credits). You then received [...]

You can find all of the photos from the summer camp below.  Feel free to download any you’d like to keep. I’ve also reposted the camp video below from the 2011 Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp blog. YouTube Direct

Tonight you have two readings related to cooperative learning: Marzano’s “Classroom instruction that works” Ch. 7 Lotan’s “Group-worthy tasks“ Out of these two readings please begin a cooperative learning cheat sheet in Google Docs that summarizes and synthesizes these two readings for future divided into the following categories: Group size Group composition Group-worthy tasks Group structure Assessment [...]

Today I was able to look over your two reading question assignments as well as your lesson reflections.  If I did not comment on your two reading question assignments (discourse moves reading and Marzano Ch. 2) they were just fine. I read and commented on each of your lesson reflections.  They were very interesting and [...]

Here are the guidelines for the Learning Theories Synthesis Paper.  It is due by the end of the day on Wednesday.  Please read the guidelines and format requirements carefully.

Instead of running video clubs for the next two days we are going to do both groups on Thursday afternoon. For tonight: Continue working on discourse moves and lesson reflections as necessary. In the instructor’s manual for the camp, read pp. 49-58. In the student booklet (the 2nd half of your binder), please read pp. [...]

After you have taught your lesson, please begin working on the lesson reflection. Begin by referencing the instructions for lesson reflections in the handbook that you will be using all year. Please note that there are three separate sections to the reflection that ask you to focus on the same lesson in different ways. In [...]

Your discourse moves reflection is due in two parts.  Part one is due the day after your rehearsal.  Part two is due the day after your video club.  Therefore, for groups A & B, your part one is due on Monday, groups C & D on Tuesday, and groups E & F on Wednesday. Please save [...]

For tomorrow, please: Continue to work on your lesson plans. Remember, groups A-C do their full run-throughs tomorrow afternoon! After our discussions on learning theories today, tonight would be a good time to start looking over the other chapters of the Perspectives on Learning book in preparation for your learning theory synthesis paper. Read Ch. [...]