Week 5 is the School Orientation Meeting. Weeks 6-13 are designated for the Field Experience.
You must attend 8 times consecutively (including Orientation). (Some days you may be unable to attend the schools due to testing, weather , breaks etc.)
Attendance: If you complete fewer than 8 visits to your assigned school, or if your teacher fails you in the field experience, you risk a failing grade for the course. Any unexcused absences from the field experience could result in a student receiving a Dispositions Document. You should attend each consecutive week except during Purdue or school breaks. You must inform teachers of the Purdue schedule. If you complete fewer than fourteen campus-based class meetings you will lose 50 points for each unexcused absence.  You are required to provide official documentation for each missed class within one week of absence or it will not be considered a valid excuse.

Week

Questions to discuss

Be prepared to do and/or turn in

Readings to discuss
(From EDCI 205 Text and Narratives)

1
08/24

Why do I want to teach?
What are my goals in this course?

THEME: BUILDING COMMUNITY

Print out syllabus 
Sign Professionalism Agreement
Professionalism_Agreement.pdf

none this week

*Ice Breaker- Building Community

2
08/31
 

What does it mean to be a professional teacher?

THEME: BUILDING COMMUNITY

Draft Letter of Introduction 
Web Assignment 1
(parts are optional)

Chapter 1- pgs. 3-23
 

3
09/07
Monday- Labor Day

What is it like to teach in an era of reform?

THEME: EDUCATIONAL REFORM

Final Letter of Introduction
COE Dispositions
http://www.edci.purdue.edu/misc/Dispositions_2003.pdf

Chapter 1-pgs. 23-39

4
09/14

How is the education system structured?

Who pays for schooling?

THEME: FIELD EXPERIENCE

Project 1: Educational Autobiography

Chapter 2-pgs. 43-68

PDF-  STILL_SavageInequalities
FILM:Children in America's Schools

5
09/21
School Orientation
 

How do I prepare for my field experience?

THEME: FIELD EXPERIENCE

Web Assignment 2
(optional: depends on instructor)
For school visits you are REQUIRED to wear your Purdue ID at all times. You can have it punched with a clip for $1 in the Purdue Memorial Union, Room 130, or buy a clip-on or clear plastic holder at many stores.

Chapter 3-pgs. 70-82

Chapter 4-pgs. 83-100

6
09/28
School Visits Begin

What are the social and cultural contexts of schooling?

THEME: SPECIAL POPULATIONS OF STUDENTS

Project 2: Teacher Questions
(in journals each week)
Journal (on Orientation)

PDF- Homelessness

7
10/05
 

How do teachers work with students and families?

THEME: BUILDING COMMUNITY

Journal

White teacher

Reading Guide

8
10/12
October Break (M-T)

How should teachers teach young children?

THEME: SPECIAL POPULATIONS OF STUDENTS

Journal
White Teacher Project
(instructor options, discuss with class)

White teacher

9
10/19

What is my educational philosophy?
How does my educational philosophy relate to the standards?

THEME: EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY

Journal

Chapter 6-pgs. 131-151

10
10/26

How do students learn in urban schools?

THEME: TEACHER AS A SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Journal  
Project 3:  Educational Philosophy

Spectacular things happen along the way

http://www.neiu.edu/~bschultz/

11
11/02

How do schools and teachers work with diverse, inner-city students?

THEME: TEACHER AS A SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Journal

12
11/09

How do teachers address learners' individual needs?

THEME: SPECIAL POPULATIONS OF STUDENTS

Journal

Chapter 7-pgs. 155-169

13
11/16

How can teachers work with students with special needs?

THEME: EDUCATIONAL REFORM

Journal
Project 4:  E Portfolio Artifact
E Portfolio Directions

FILM
Understanding Learning Disabilities: How difficult can this be? or Instructor's choice film

http://www.rethinkingschools.org/
Look at "Failing our Kids".

14
11/23
Thanksgiving Vacation (W-S)

How do ESL students learn?
 

THEME: SPECIAL POPULATIONS OF STUDENTS

Journal
Letter of Thanks

 
PDF- ESL

15
11/30
 

How does society view the teacher?
 

THEME: EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY

Web Assignment 3

 
PDF- First Year

16
12/07

What is the first year of teaching like?

THEME: TEACHER AS A SOCIAL ACTIVIST

FILM: The first year or Instructor's choice film
http://www.tqsource.org/publications/LessonsLearned3.pdf.

THERE IS NO FINAL EXAM IN THIS COURSE.