September+21

=Tentative Agenda for September 21, 2007=

//Nominate items for class discussion under #5. Please sign your posts by typing ~ three times, then clicking the "Save" button.//

=12:40 - 1:00=

1) **Learning Logs**:

Today I am celebrating. ..

Today I am concerned about. ..

2) **Housekeeping:**


 * Roll
 * Contact Information Sheets - Is your contact info. correct?
 * ACTFL Preview Packets

=1:00 - 1:20=

3) **Swap Shop**


 * 4 people per group, 5 min. per person, 20 min. per group
 * Post a copy to the appropriate place on the wiki
 * Turn in one hard copy to Cherice

=1:20 - 1:40=


 * 4) Research & Reflection**


 * Formulating a Question
 * Locating Information
 * Organizing Information (See also: Getting Organized)
 * [|5 Reasons to Blog the Research Process]

=1:40 - 2:00=

5) **Insights & Issues:** Nominate questions for discussion in class here. Be sure to sign your post (Type ~ three times, then click "Save")
 * Dress
 * Classroom Management
 * Mentors, specifically in cases of the interns' authority being undermined in front of the class (even when it is unintentional.) user:decortem
 * Stress Management

= = =2:00 - 2:15: BREAK=

=2:15 - 3:30=

6) **Professionalizing Our Practice:** **Teaching in the 21st Century**


 * Designing for Learning
 * [|We're Not in Kansas Anymore!]
 * . . . and [|neither are our students]!
 * [|Reframing Teaching in the 21st Century as Learning: Multiple Literacies]
 * Designing Learning Environments
 * A Question of Culture & Context - What are culture and context? Why does it matter? How can we establish it?
 * A Question of Connections: If teachers were architects . ..
 * A Question of Communities: So what about assessment? - A Field Trip
 * [|Designing Learning Experiences]: It's all about Flow!
 * A Question of Communication: Flow of Energy
 * A Question of Comparisons: Flow of Thinking (Learning as Shifts in Perspective; Neuroscience: Sense/Meaning)
 * A Question of Scaffolding: Flow of Instructional Activities
 * Pre- - Bell-ringer or warm-up activities
 * During - [|Managing Transitions], Handling Interruptions & Health Emergencies, & Preparing for Improvisation
 * Post- Closure, Managing the paper load
 * A Question of Creativity - [|Flow from Imitation to Innovation]
 * A Question of Movement: Flow of Students and Teachers

7) **Assignments for** **the Week of 9/21/07**
 * **Agenda -** Add items for class to the Insights & Issues section in #5 above (only if you have something you want/need to discuss)
 * **Conference Registration** - Pre-register for [|MiWLA] or [|ACTFL]. If you go to MiWLA, apply for a [|minigrant]. It will pay your conference registration, a workshop, the awards luncheon, and membership. Submit [|"proof" that you are a full time student] so that you can enroll at the student rates to Daryl Biallas
 * **Discussion Forum -** Post at least one insight or issue to the September 21 Discussion Page. Please start a new thread if your topic is substantially different from what has already been posted and be clear and specific in your title. If you don't have anything to post, respond to someone else's posting.
 * **Swap Shop -** Come prepared to teach your activity to 6 people. You will have approximately 5-7 minutes to accomplish this.