INSTRUCTOR

Monalisa M. Mullins, Chaminade 228-B, office ph 937-229-3306.

e-mail address: monalisa.mullins@notes.udayton.edu

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is designed to study the profession of teaching, including the principle teacher behaviors that facilitate learning and those that impede the learning process. The course emphasizes aspects of learning theory and its application to the teaching and learning process. Other course topics include current educational issues, developing communities of learners, service learning, and teaching within the Marianist traditions. Students are required to complete 20 hours of filed experience in local schools and 24 hours of clinical experiences.

TEXTS

Teachers, Schools,& Society, Myra P. Sadker & David M. Sadker, 5^th edition, 2000.

Pathwise Orientation Guide, Educational Testing Service, 1995.

Star Teachers of Children in Poverty, Martin Haberman, 1995.

NOTICE TO STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

To request academic accommodations due to disability, please contact the Office for Students with Disabilities, 001 Albert Emanuel Hall, 229-3684. If you have a self-identification form from the Office for Students with Disabilities, please present it to me in order to ensure proper accommodations.

CLASS PROCEDURES & METHOD OF EVALUATION

Students are expected to read all assignments prior to class, and be prepared to fully participate in classroom discussions. More than two absences will result in an automatic 10% penalty for the final course grade. Exception to this policy will require notification from the Dean’s Office. Students will prepare a portfolio for submission NLT April 23^rd; the portfolio is worth 20% of the final course grade, and should include entries regarding field observations (as arranged by the Placement Office) and PRAXIS III Domains (see Pathwise text). Group presentations regarding the reading assignments in the Sadker & Sadker text will also count as 20%, and should be limited to 20-30 minutes. This course has a midterm and final exam, each worth 25% of the final course grade. Exams will include both objective and essay evaluations. Participation in a service learning project in also required (minimum 5hrs) and is worth 5% of the final course grade. A summary report of service learning activities should be submitted NLT April 23^rd.Student organizations are the best source for service learning projects, as well as University’s service learning website at http: www.udayton.edu/~service . The remaining 5% of the course grade is for completion of the following checklist (EDT 110 requirement):

a. PRAXIS I scores reported for your file in CH 112A

b. Field experience evaluation (from cooperating teacher)

c. Completion of your 4year plan copied for your student file

d. Technology assignment for PT# project (details TBA)

e. Media checklist (including library session April 9th)

f. Service learning 4year plan (for your portfolio)

Please note that all of the above items must be submitted to me by April 23^rd; no partial credit will be awarded for incomplete submissions. Below is the grading scale for this course:

A 94-100 superior, outstanding work

B 84-93 very good work

C 70-83 average work

D 60-69 below average work

F below 60 unacceptable work

COURSE CALENDAR

JAN 8 review syllabus and course procedures

JAN 15 Pathwise/PRAXIS presentation (with Professor Susan Ferguson)

JAN 22 Group 1 Presentation: Sadker & Sadker, Ch 1, p4-26, Becoming a Teacher, and Haberman, p3, What Star Teachers Don’t Do

JAN 29 Group 2 Presentation: Sadker & Sadker, Ch 4, p82-117, Student Diversity, and Haberman, p48, Approach to “At-Risk” Children

FEB 5 Group 3 Presentation: Sadker & Sadker, Ch 5, p134-167, Schools and Beyond, and Haberman, p60, The Care and Feeding of the Bureaucracy

FEB 12 Conclusion & Review Presentations 1-3

FEB 19 Midterm Exam

FEB 26 Group 4 Presentation: Sadker & Sadker, Ch7, p201-233, What Students

are Taught in Schools, and Haberman, p29, Protecting Learners and Learning

MAR 5 Group 5 Presentation: Sadker & Sadker, Ch 11, p352-385, School Law and Ethics, and Haberman, p79, Teaching – Not Sorting

MAR 12 Group 6 Presentation: Sadker & Sadker, Ch 13, p422-459, The Struggle for Educational Opportunity, and Haberman, p86, Gentle Teaching in a Violent Society

MAR 19 Conclusion & Review Presentations 4-6

APR 2 Portfolio Preparation

APR 9 Library Research Class in RL 401 (with Ms. Sue Polanka)

APR 16 Haberman, p83, Convincing Students “I need you here” and Haberman, p68, Fallibility

APR 23 Review & Evaluations

APR 26 Final Exam 2-3:50pm