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TLT 412, Fall 2022 - Course record

TLT 412, Fall 2022 - Course record

Nov 28, 2022

weeks: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15

 

Week 1 - Monday, 22 Aug

Before class 

  • Buy a copy of the textbook (Maxim, 2017, Dynamic Social Studies for Constructivist Classrooms; currently in 11th edition, but earlier editions are fine). Amazon has it 

  • Cruise this wiki and the CourseSite.

  • Preview the syllabus. We will discuss it during class.

During class (ppt)

  • Housekeeping

    • Introductions

    • Looking at our toolbox: CourseSite, wiki, bookmarks, etc.

    • Reviewing syllabus

      • Assignments and grading

      • First step: Completing your first WTL entries

    • Questions thus far?

  • Conceptual work

  • Closure

    • Review of what's where (wiki, CourseSite)

    • Any questions?

    • Stick around for portfolio work, if you wish

After class

  • Reading

    • (Borrow something from me! Read or skim it! Talk about it next week!)

    • Maxim, Ch. 1 (What is?)

  • Assignments

    • WTL for this week: What is the purpose of curriculum??

    • Update your profile in CourseSite to include your picture

    • Starting planning out your upcoming assignments: Original Instructional Materials product #1, who you'll interview for HTCE, etc. 

    • Bookmark class websites on your computer (e.g., CourseSite, relevant wiki pages) 

Week 2 - Monday, 29 Aug

Before class 

  • Complete reading

  • Don't forget to do the WTL in CourseSite!

  • Return what you borrowed from my cartload of materials

  • Do the CoureSite updating (it helps me remember names/faces!)

  • Think ahead on your assignments

During class (ppt)

  • First thing! No time to waste! Going outside to do the scaffolded geocache activity with the last of our daylight!

  • Back inside: Debriefing the activity

  • Looking at some geography standards, plus unpacking the idea of location (absolute vs. relative), place

  • Framework for teacher decision-making: TPACK

    • Something I'll reference: A set of maps about European settlements in the Lehigh Watershed: https://arcg.is/0LiKD1.

  • (Of course, we'll dip into our handy JamBoard of methods! https://jamboard.google.com/d/1C10F-iElFksAJhuwcQvSTxHMgxWwDHx45e1lVshh6xA/edit?usp=sharing)

  • Playing with the duality of 'What is social studies?' and 'What is the purpose of social studies?'

  • Closure – note the utility of the textbook, particularly as a source of inspiration for methods

After class

  • Reading

  • Assignments

    • WTL in CourseSite. It's a double-barreled week:

      • What is your earliest memory of social studies?

      • What are you thinking of doing for your first Original Instructional Materials assignment?

    • As a prep for one of next week's demos, please provide some info for our "Weaving the Globe" lesson

    • More prep for next week: In your phone, please download and install the Field Maps app from Esri. You already have an account to use this, thanks to Lehigh. We'll get into it next week: https://fieldmaps.arcgis.app/

    • Complete your OIM #1 and bring it to class next week. We will share what you created.

 

Week 3 - Monday, 5 Sep

Before class 

During class (ppt)

After class

  • Reading:

    • Barton & Lestik 1996. (This prepares you to do the HTCE, plus it provides a model for your image set)

    • Optional: Gaudelli & Laverty, 2017. (This unpacks the idea of different stances / approaches to teaching social studies)

  • Assignments

    • Complete and bring in your HTCE prep assignment

    • Complete WTL on 'Whose Land?' activity

    • If you can: Tell us what observances you see in schools centered around the events of September 11th, 2001

Week 4 - Monday, 12 Sep

Before class 

  • Complete reading (be sure to read Barton & Levstik before doing your HTCE prep assignment!)

  • Complete and bring in your HTCE prep (see syllabus for detail)s)

  • Make sure you have Esri's Field Maps downloaded to your phone (https://fieldmaps.arcgis.app/)

  • Keep an eye out for Sept 11 discussions or observances in schools!

During class (slides)

After class

  • OIP #2 – I'm looking for two things here

    • Stretch yourself in some way! (But don't drive yourself too crazy – try something new but don't bite off more than you can chew)

    • There's a reflection that goes with it – see syllabus for detail

  • Complete WTL in CourseSite on geography resources & geography curriculum

  • Reading

    • Maxim, Ch. 4-5-6 – just get started on these, start digging into what Maxim has to say about pedagogy

    • BASD curriculum documents. Note that these connect to the WTL, plus it sets up a discussion I want to have next week about curriculum & planning

Week 5 - Monday, 19 Sep

Before class 

  • Complete reading

  • Complete OIP #2 – don't forget the reflection! We won't be doing a full sharing session in class, but do feel free to post yours in the CourseSite forum for this week

  • Complete WTL

During class (ppt)

  • OIP #2 – anything interesting to discuss?

  • Re-capping big ideas thus far, pivoting to new stuff

  • Civics ed: Warm up activity = image study & annotation – I'm not linking it here (since these are copyrighted images) but will happily send you a copy of the ppt if you wish

  • Unpacking civics

    • Standards: PDE, C3, Center for Civic Education

    • Instructional planning

    • The real question, one that standards don't deeply engage: What kind of citizen are we talking about?

    • Further messiness: Example of BASD curriculum, other curricular frames

  • Discussion of curriculum map assignment

  • Closure

After class

  • Reading

    • Maxim, Ch. 9 (civics)

    • Civics standards: PDE & C3 (in CourseSite – see folder of standards)

    • optional: Brophy & Alleman, 2002 (this is a quick intro to their idea of cultural universals; FML has some of the supporting materials for this curriculum approach)

  • Assignments

    • WTL on civic ed – play an iCivics game and report back!

    • Think ahead on your curriculum map assignment

 

Week 6 - Monday, 26 Sep

Before class

  • Complete reading

  • Complete WTL on iCivics games

  • Work on curriculum map! It's a big assignment, and it's due the following week!

During class (ppt)

After class

  • Reading: Finish off anything you have left from Maxim, Ch. 4-5-6

  • Assignments

    • Complete WTL on civics standards

    • Prepare and bring in your curriculum map assignment (+reflection!)

    • (Work ahead on your other instructional planning assignments!)

    • Get started on field work!!

    • Let me know if you're interested in playing my government game for Southside Bethlehem – meet up at Campus Square at 4:30 on Monday, 3 Oct; download and install the app ActionBound (ActionBound.org)

 

Week 7 - Monday, 3 Oct

Before class

  • Complete and turn in your curriculum map assignment – don't forget the reflection!

  • Complete WTL

  • Let me know if you want to play the government game!

During class (ppt)

After class

  • Reading

    • optional: Westheimer & Kahne, 2004

    • optional: Hammond & Manfra, 2009

    • Instructional planning materials in CourseSite – read as needed. For example: If you need a brush-up on writing instructional objectives, there are a couple of resources for that. 

  • Assignments

    • Work ahead / think ahead on second-half-of-semester assignments (ex: instructional unit)

    • Turn in fieldwork update

    • Turn in "one good, one bad" instructional objective activity + brief explanation of what you like about the good one & what you don't like about the bad one

Week 8 - Monday, 10 Oct - NO CLASS (Day 1 of pacing break); see CourseSite for activities & materials

Week 9 - Monday, 17 Oct

Before class

  • Complete WTLs – there's one to update me on your fieldwork and another to try your hand at writing objectives

  • Work ahead / think ahead on upcoming assignments

During class (ppt)

After class

  • Reading

    • History standards (see folder in CourseSite)

    • Maxim, Ch. 9 (history ed)

    • Read 1 additional history ed piece (see options in CourseSite)

  • Assignments

    • Sign up for microteaching timeslot

    • Complete and turn in your unit overview

    • Complete WTL on Wikipedia…I have a thing for Wikipedia.

Week 10 - Monday, 24 Oct

Before class

  • Complete and turn in unit overview document

  • Complete reading

  • Complete WTL on Wikipedia

  • Fill out form for requesting a microteaching slot

During class (ppt)

After class

  • Skim the 1619 Project and the 1776 Project documents in CourseSite

  • Optional reading: Schweber, 2008

  • Work on end-of-semester assignments! (Fieldwork paper, HTCE interview & report, instructional unit), but nothing is due next week unless...

  • If you're microteaching, prep your lesson!!

Week 11 - Monday, 31 Oct

Before class

  • Complete reading

  • Work on end-of-semester assignments

  • Prep microteaching (if you're due up – see CourseSite)

During class (ppt)

  • Microteaching – see CourseSite for who is going tonight

    • Please feel free to use the forum provided in CourseSite to share materials to the class

    • For all non-microteachers, there's a form in CourseSite to provide info/questions to tonight's presenters

  • Housekeeping: Instructional unit overview; final unit – questions / discussion

  • Finishing up history ed

    • Deepening our examination of teacher stances / approaches to history education. Note that some of these claim to be super into history & minimize the distinction I'm drawing with history education....

    • Finishing up Wikipedia discussion / activities

    • Closing off the idea of "history education that is pro-democracy" with a non-example (timelines about George Washington) and some examples

After class

  • Work on end-of-semester assignments! (Fieldwork paper, HTCE interview & report, instructional unit), but nothing is due next week unless...

  • If you're microteaching, prep your lesson!!

  • If you just finished microteaching, write up a reflection and email it to me! Not a rush, just do it in the next week or two

  • Reading: Read the Schurr piece linked in CourseSite ("Assessment That Emphasizes Learning"); it will get us warmed up for next week.

 

Week 12 - Monday, 7 Nov

Before class

  • If you're microteaching, prep it! If you just got done microteaching, write a reflection (see syllabus for details)