Week One   

1. June 18

Introduction

• Introductions
• Overview and syllabus
• IntroBlog 
• Workshop: Course BlogSpot 
  

2. June 19

Introduction

Music before class:  The Fray - Uncertainty

Reading:

• The American School, chapter: 1
• Educational Foundations: Roman Pages
• Bushnell, M. & Henry, S. (2003) Reflection & Autobiography in Teacher Education. 44-59.

• Course Syllabus
• WebLog 1 Class Survey
• Readings: Standpoint Epistemology and autobiography

A few thoughts about Autobiography

Bricks and Buckets or the Banking Method of Education...

Teaching The War Of 1812

STANDPOINT THEORY

What is the Uncertainty Principle?  (or is Science Multicultural)?

3. June 20

Globalization & Nationalism

Reading: The American School 2, 3 (48-61):

Discussion 

4. June 21

Why Teach?

Reading: Educational Foundations, Part 1  
Discussion:

WebLog I due: (Share one idea from your initial blog)

Intellectual risks

 Please bring a prop or two that captures a significant aspect or aspects of the readings for class today.

Week Two

5. June 25

Common Schools

Reading: The American School 4

Questions (some really challenging questions) from you to me...

Discuss: Timeline Assignment

6. June 26

Common Schools

Reading: The American School 5

A Few Questions:

What path did you take, whether purposely or otherwise, to get to the point where you are today as an educator? When you were a teenager, or 20-something, did you know where you'd be 20 years or so down the line? But my question for Dr. Shutkin and the class is kind of broad and open ended. If you could change one thing about education what would it be?

Resources:

• THE CHEROKEE SYLLABARY
• Online Home of the Cherokee

Discussion:

1. Three significant ideas or events, one from each of the three primary sections;

2. Analysis of these ideas;

3. Your responsibility aka your ability to respond indeed!

Writing Circles

7. June 27

Who are today’s students?

Reading: Educational Foundations, Part 2

Discussion:  Please bring a prop or two that informs your synthesis of the readings for class today

8. June 28

Autobiography

1. Bullough, R.V. and Pinnegar, S. (2001) Guidelines for autobiographical forms of self-study research. 13-21. 
2. Pinar, W. (2012) Chapter two, section one:  To Run The Course: Currere. What Is Curriculum Theory. New York : Routledge. pp. 43-49. (What is Currere as a research methodology)

Discussions: “Autobiography in Teacher Education”

1. Presenting Prop Performances   
2.  Weblog partner exercise  
3. Earliest Time Line Entries... (if time permits)
4. Writing Circles: Without references to specifics what is working, what is not working?

  
WebLog II due / Writing Circle 1

Week Three

9. July 2

Common Schools

Reading: The American School 7

Discussion:

• Subjugation: The deculturalization and assimilation of your people(s) into “Americans;”

1. Mexican Americans
2. Asian Americans
3. Native Americans
4. African Americans
5. Puerto Ricans  

Resources:

• Using Ohio Link:  Library
•  Photographs from the Carlisle Indian School in Carlisle, PA.
• An Indian Boarding School Photo Gallery
• Carlisle Indian Industrial School History 
• The National Council of La Raza (NCLR)    
• Selected studies of classroom practice and African American Vernacular English:
• Godley, A., , & Escher, A. (2012). Bidialectal African American Adolescents' Beliefs About Spoken Language Expectations in English Classrooms.Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 55(8), 704-713.  
• Godley, A. J., , & Minnici, A. (2008). Critical Language Pedagogy in an Urban High School English Class.Urban Education, 43(3), 319-346. 
• Follow this link for a listing of selected examples of autobiographical historiography and autoethnography (self-study research)

10. July 3

From Nixon to Obama

Reading: The American School, 15

Discussion:

Writing Circles:

1. Assessing blogposts using the course rubric.
2. Back to the task at hand... 

Resources:

Ohio lawmakers approve Mayor Jackson's Cleveland schools plan after weeks of tense negotiatons

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, after weeks of tense negotiations, finally gained the legislative approval he needed on Tuesday to carry out his plan to reform the city's troubled schools. Full story »

July 4

Independence Day. No class.

11. July 5

Autobiography

Class meets in library for independent reading and writing and conferencing with Dr. Shutkin.

Writing Circles will meet.

Optional Reading:  Saar, M. (2008). Understanding Genealogy: History, Power, and the Self. Journal of the Philosophy of History. 2 (3). 295-314.

 
Writing Circles

Week Four

12. July 9

Migration and Welfare

Reading: The American School 8 (Who invented an American Culture?)

 Discussions:

• Americanization : assimilation : deculturalization or Where did you come from?
• Home Economics and the invention/education of the consumer.
• "Ketchup is a vegetable:" the school cafeteria and Fast Food Nation
• Play, Social Control and the commodification of children...

WebLog III due

13. July 10

What Makes a Good Teacher?

Reading: Educational Foundations, Part 3:  "What Makes a Good Teacher?"

(Based on your reading, identify guiding principles for a new teacher education program).

9.   Freire

10. Ohanian

11. DiGuiulio

12. Postman and Weingartner

 Writing Circles

14. July 11

Human Capital

Scientific Management & Pluralism

Reading: The American School, 9 or 10 or 11  (A teach-around: clarify your topic by teaching it to others)

A few Notes on assessment

Discussion:

9.    Human Capital

10.  Scientific Management 

11.  The Politics of Knowledge

 Resources (chapter 11):

1.   AFT - American Federation of Teachers - A Union of Professionals

2.   NEA – The National Education Association

3.   The American Legion

Summerhill 

15. July 12

What Do Good Schools Look Like?

 Reading: Educational Foundations, Part 4: What do good schools look like? 

(A dramatic presentation on what students are doing all day.  Conclude with an explication of the role of the school principal and/or vision of the school).

13. A.S. Neil

14. Meier

15. Washor

16. Donnell

 Writing Circles

 Writing Circle 2

Week Five

16. July 16

Assessing Student Learning? 

Reading: Educational Foundations, Part 5

Discussion: I don't much like the assessment rubric for the timeline project.  Based on the readings, in small groups and as a class, can we devise an alternative assessment?

Gallery time:  Time Lines (in room OC211)

Viewing:  Images from the Jim Crow era : A Prosaic Approach to Civil Rights Images

Timeline II due

17. July 17

Civil Rights, Multiculturalism and the War on Poverty

Reading: The American School, 13, pp. 366-376 and 14 

 Discussion

 Research Presentations: Group1

• Aaron Agrast             
• Kate Bataille
• Emily Bertagnolli      
• Maria Bertoncin       
• Kayleigh Brickman
• Emily Eddings          
• Daniel Fossa  
• Georgana Fox            

18. July 18

Developing a Critical Voice

Reading: Educational Foundations, Part 6 

 Discussion

 Research Presentations: Group2

• Angie Germano       
• Stuart Gair
• Aaron Graora            
• Maggie Junkin          
• Meghan Keener       
• Kate Lawson             
• Liz Lewis

19. July 19

 Concluding Thoughts:

When I do not know myself, I cannot know 

who my students are. I will see them through 

a glass darkly, in the shadows of my unexamined life

—and when I cannot see them clearly,

I cannot teach them well. 

—Parker J. Palmer (1998, p. 2) 

 Research Presentations:  Group3

• Courtney Maistros   
• Andrew Petraska     
• Jenna Rezac  
• Kara Reiter     
• Darcy Riley    
• Jim Shurtleff
• Stacie Slay     
• Shawn Zetzer

 Research Report due