Fall 2020 Calendar

Go to week:

One
Sept 1/3
Two
Sept 8/10
Three
Sept 15/17
Four
Sept 22/24
Five
Sept 29/Oct 1
Six
Oct 6/8
Seven
Oct 13/15
Eight
Oct 20/22
Nine
Oct 27/29
Ten
Nov 3/5
Eleven
Nov 10/12
Twelve
Nov 17/19
Thirteen
Dec 1/3
Fourteen
Dec 8/10
Fifteen
Dec 15/17

Week One September 1 and 3

Tuesday | Introductions

Introductions: 

  • You & me (draw the change you want to be in the world)
  • Course Introduction

Workshop: Building your ED100 Weblog

Zoom Recording ED100 1 September 2020


Thursday | Introductions

Noteworthy |

Introductions |  

  • You & me (draw the change you want to be in the world)
  • Course Introduction

Your Learning Circle | Learning Experiences, Current Connections, and an initial meeting

Building your ED100 Weblog  

BlogPost I Class Survey

Overview Reading for next Tuesday 

Zoom Recording ED100 3 September 2020


Week Two September 8 and 10

Reading | The New Teacher BookFinding purpose, balance, and hope during your first years in the classroom. pp. 3-25

  • Creating Community Out of Chaos  By Linda Christensen
  • A Message from a Black Mom to Her Son  By Dyan Watson
  • Honor Their Names  By Linda Christensen
  • Name  By Hiwot Adilow
  • Uchinaaguchi The language of my heart  By Moé Yonamine

Tuesday

Noteworthy

Course Introductions | BlogPost I Class Survey

4. What are you into; what makes you special? Share a few “unique” aspects about yourself that would help our classroom community get to know you a bit. Are you on an athletic team? Sing in the choir?  Are you trying out for a play? Painting? What are you planning on doing this semester in your life that is noteworthy?

Field Observations & Discussions

Learning Experience — Dr. Shutkin

Zoom Recording ED100 8 September 2020


Thursday

Noteworthy

Learning Experience (The New Teacher BookFinding purpose, balance, and hope during your first years in the classroom. pp. 3-25 cont.)

Current Connections — (The New Teacher BookFinding purpose, balance, and hope during your first years in the classroom. pp. 3-25.)Dr. Shutkin

Overview Reading  | The New Teacher BookFinding purpose, balance, and hope during your first years in the classroom. pp. 26-49

Zoom Recording ED100 10 September 2020


Week Three September 15 and 17

Reading | The New Teacher BookFinding purpose, balance, and hope during your first years in the classroom. pp. 26-49

  • Uncovering the Lessons of Classroom Furniture You are where you sit By Tom McKenna
  • Getting Your Classroom Together By Bob Peterson
  • 12 Suggestions for New Teachers By Larry Miller
  • How I Survived My First Year  By Bill Bigelow

Tuesday

Noteworthy |

  • Learning Experience BlogPost summaries are due at midnight on the Friday following classroom learning experiences.
  • Current Connection BlogPosts are due at midnight on the Tuesday following classroom discussions. 

Course Introductions | BlogPost I Class Survey

  • How are you? What about your JCU experience so far?
  • What must be in place for you to feel comfortable taking intellectual and creative risks in a course such as this one?

Field Observations & Discussions | The Art of Awareness (part 2) 

Learning Experience 1 LC One |  

Zoom Recording ED100 15 September 2020


Thursday

Noteworthy |

Current Connections 1 LC Three

Overview Reading 3 | The New Teacher BookFinding purpose, balance, and hope during your first years in the classroom. pp. 53-73.

Zoom Recording ED100 17 September 2020


Week Four September 22 and 24

Reading | The New Teacher BookFinding purpose, balance, and hope during your first years in the classroom. pp. 53-73.

  • Creating Classrooms for Equity and Social Justice  By Rethinking Schools Editors
  • Black Is Beautiful  By Kara Hinderlie
  • Seeing Ourselves with Our Own Eyes  By Katy Alexander

Tuesday

Noteworthy |

  • Learning Experience BlogPost summaries are due at midnight on the Friday following classroom learning experiences.
  • Current Connection BlogPosts are due at midnight on the Tuesday following classroom discussions. 
  • Arranging a time to meet with LCs before learning experiences is crucial
  • Are you Ready to Vote on November 3rd? Let’s discuss it.

Field Observations & Discussions |

Learning Experience 1 LC Two |  

Zoom Recording ED100 22 September 2020


Thursday

Noteworthy |

  • Learning Experience BlogPost summaries are due at midnight on the Friday following classroom learning experiences.
  • Current Connection BlogPosts are due at midnight on the Tuesday following classroom discussions. 
  • Arranging a time to meet with LCs before learning experiences is crucial
  • Are you Ready to Vote on November 3rd? Let’s discuss it.

Current Connections 1 LC Four

Overview Reading 4 | The Politics of the Curriculum

Zoom Recording ED100 24 September 2020

Top


Week Five September 29 and October 1

Reading | The New Teacher BookFinding purpose, balance, and hope during your first years in the classroom. pp. 74-93

  • Presidents and Slaves Helping students find the truth  By Bob Peterson
  • Medical Apartheid  Teaching the Tuskegee Syphilis Study By Gretchen Kraig-Turner
  • Q/A: I hate the textbook I’ve been given to use. What can I do?  By Rita Tenorio, Rachel Cloues, and Bill Bigelow

Tuesday

Noteworthy |

Field Observations & Discussions |

Learning Experience 1 LC Three |

Zoom Recording ED100 29 September 2020


Thursday

Noteworthy |

  • Learning Experience | BlogPost summaries are due at midnight on the Friday following classroom learning experiences.
  • Current Connection | BlogPosts are due at midnight on the Tuesday following classroom discussions. 
  • Assignment due 6 October (in class) | Field Blog Post 1
  • LC4 let’s find a time to meet in advance of next Tuesday’s LX

Current Connections 1 LC One

Overview Reading 5 | In the Shadow of the Bilingual Education Act

Zoom Recording ED100 1 October 2020

Top


Week Six October 6 and 8

Reading | The New Teacher BookFinding purpose, balance, and hope during your first years in the classroom. pp. 94-118

  • Students Bring the World to Our Classrooms  By Kim Kanof
  • Speak Freely  By Lynsey Burkins
  • Q/A: How can I teach both content and language to English learners?   
  •  Types of English as a Second Language and Bilingual Program 
  • Q/A: My students don’t bring back their homework. Should I keep assigning it?  Rita Tenorio
  • Promoting Social Imagination Through Interior Monologues  By Bill Bigelow and Linda Christensen

Tuesday

Noteworthy |

  • Learning Experience BlogPost summaries are due at midnight on the Friday following classroom learning experiences.
  • Current Connection BlogPosts are due at midnight on the Tuesday following classroom discussions. 
  • Assignment due 6 October (today, in class) | Field Blog Post 1
  • Please let me know when you have completed work that did not come in on time

Field Observations & Discussions |

Learning Experience 1 LC Four |

Zoom Recording ED100 6 October 2020


Thursday

Noteworthy |

  • Learning Experience BlogPosts | due at midnight on the Friday following classroom learning experiences.
  • Current Connection BlogPosts | due at midnight on the Tuesday following classroom discussions. 

Current Connections 1 LC Two

Overview Reading 6 | The Blog Post Read-Around!

Early Childhood Education at John Carroll

Zoom Recording ED100 8 October 2020

Top


Week Seven October 13 and 15

Reading | The New Teacher BookFinding purpose, balance, and hope during your first years in the classroom. pp. 119-140

  • The Read-Around A reading and writing strategy  By Linda Christensen
  • Role Plays: Show, Don’t Tell  By Bill Bigelow
  • From Theme and Evidence Wall into Essay  By Linda Christensen

Tuesday

Noteworthy |

Field Observations & Discussions

Learning Experience 2 LC One |

Zoom Recording ED100 13 October 2020


Thursday

Current Connections 2 LC Three

Overview Reading for Next Week | Designing Role Play Experiences

Early Childhood Education at John Carroll

Middle Childhood Education at John Carroll

Zoom Recording ED100 15 October 2020

Top


Week Eight October 20 and 22

Reading | The New Teacher BookFinding purpose, balance, and hope during your first years in the classroom. pp. 141-164

  • Mexican Education  By Alexander Jimenez
  • What I Wish I Had Said  By Anita Stratton
  • “How Could You Let This Happen?” Dealing with 2nd graders and rape culture  By Zanovia Clark
  • Howling at the Ocean: Surviving my first year teaching  By Jaydra Johnson

Tuesday

Noteworthy |

Field Observations & Discussions

Learning Experience 2 LC Two |

Zoom Recording ED100 20 October 2020


Thursday

Current Connections 2 LC Four

Overview Reading for Next Week |  Beyond Discipline

Middle Childhood Education at John Carroll

Adolescent & Young Adult Education at John Carroll

Zoom Recording ED100 22 October 2020

Top


Week Nine October 27 and 29

Reading | The New Teacher BookFinding purpose, balance, and hope during your first years in the classroom. pp. 165-188

  • How Do I Stay in a Profession that Is Trying to Push Me Out?  By John Terry
  • Dear White Teacher  By Chrysanthius Lathan
  • Restorative Justice Starts in the Classroom  By Camila Arze Torres Goitia
  • Q/A: What are restorative practices and why are they important?  By Bob Peterson
  • Girls Against Dress Codes  By Lyn Mikel Brown

Tuesday

Field Observations & Discussions

Learning Experience 2 LC Three |

Adolescent & Young Adult Education at John Carroll

Zoom Recording ED100 27 October 2020


Thursday

Current Connections 2 LC One

Overview Reading for Next Week | LISTEN TO THEM, VALIDATE THEM…

Zoom Recording ED100 29 October 2020

Top


Week Ten November 3 and 5

Reading | The New Teacher BookFinding purpose, balance, and hope during your first years in the classroom. pp. 189-206

  • Inclusivity Is Not a Guessing Game  By Chelsea Vaught
  • “I Believe You”  Responsive teacher talk and our children’s lives  By Michelle Strater Gunderson
  • On Behalf of Their Name  Using they/them pronouns because they need us to  By Mykhiel Deych

Tuesday

Noteworthy | Class on Thursday ends at 10:30 –> An Embodied Pedagogy of Culture & Technology

Field Observations & Discussions

Learning Experience 2 LC Four |

Zoom Recording ED100 3 November 2020


Thursday

Noteworthy | Class on Thursday ends at 10:30 –> An Embodied Pedagogy of Culture & Technology

Current Connections 2 LC Two

Overview Reading for Next Week | High Stakes Testing v. Real Learning

Zoom Recording ED100 5 November 2020

Top


Week Eleven November 10 and 12

Reading | The New Teacher BookFinding purpose, balance, and hope during your first years in the classroom. pp. 207-228

  • Time to Get Off the Testing Train  By Stan Karp
  • What’s Wrong with Standardized Tests?  By FairTest
  • Authentic Assessment for Learning
  • Fourteen Days SBAC Took Away  By Moé Yonamine
  • Testing Assumptions  By Claudierre McKay, Aaron Regunberg, and Tim Shea

Tuesday

Noteworthy | I saw I had a zero in your grade book. Dr. Shutkin, what gives?

Adolescent & Young Adult Education at John Carroll

Field Observations & Discussions

Learning Experience 3 LC One |

Zoom Recording ED100 10 November 2020


Thursday

Current Connections 3 LC Three

Overview Reading for Next Week | Assessing Students, Teachers and Schools

Zoom Recording ED100 12 November 2020

Top


Week Twelve November 17 and 19

Reading | The New Teacher BookFinding purpose, balance, and hope during your first years in the classroom. pp. 229-248

  • My Dirty Little Secret: I Don’t Grade Student Papers  Helping students find their passion helps them learn how to write well  By Linda Christensen
  • Taking Teacher Quality Seriously  A collaborative approach to teacher evaluation  By Stan Karp
  • Beyond Test Scores  Introducing the MCIEA school quality measures  By James Noonan

Tuesday

Noteworthy |

Field Observations & Discussions

Learning Experience 3 LC Two |

Zoom Recording ED100 17 November 2020


Thursday

Current Connections 3 LC Four

Overview Reading for Next Week | Special Guests: Karen Rego, President CHUH Federation of Teachers and Tom Schmida, Past President CHUH Federation of Teachers.

Zoom Recording ED100 19 November 2020

Top


Week Thirteen December 1 and 3

Reading | The New Teacher BookFinding purpose, balance, and hope during your first years in the classroom. pp. 249-272

  • Moving Beyond the Classroom  By Stan Karp
  • Q/A: As a new educator why should I be concerned about school privatization?
  • School Funding Basics  By Stan Karp
  • Why Teacher Unions Matter  By Bob Peterson
  • New Teachers to the Union: Count Us In!  By Gabriel Tanglao

Tuesday

Noteworthy | Teachers battling it out with Cleveland Heights-University Heights admins over wages, healthcare coverage – ABC News Five, Cleveland.

Field Observations & Discussions

Learning Experience 3 LC Three |

Zoom Recording ED100 1 December 2020


Thursday

Current Connections 3 LC One

Overview Reading for Next Week | 

Zoom Recording ED100 3 December 2020

Top


Week Fourteen December 8 and 10

Reading | The New Teacher BookFinding purpose, balance, and hope during your first years in the classroom. pp. 273-301

  • From Outrage to Organizing  Building community ties through education activism  By Ikechukwu Onyema
  • Why Community Schools?  Public schools as greenhouses of democracy
  • Q/A: How can I decide if a school reform project is worth supporting?
  • “Aren’t You on the Parent Listserv?”  Working for equitable family involvement in a dual-immersion elementary school  By Grace Cornell Gonzales
  • Blood on the Tracks  Why are there so few Black students in our science classes?  By Amy Lindahl
  • Little Kids, Big Ideas  Teaching social issues and global conflicts with young children  By the editors of Rethinking Schools

Tuesday

Field Observations & Discussions | A culminating experience

Learning Experience 3 LC Four |

Zoom Recording ED100 8 December 2020


Thursday

Current Connections 3 LC Two

Zoom Recording ED100 10 December 2020

Top


Week Fifteen December 15 and 17

Final Exam 15 December from Tuesday 10:00am-11:50am

ED100 | A Retrospective

Top