EDU+101-002+Assignments

Homework Assignments
(listed by due date) Due at the beginning of class on the date listed unless otherwise noted

//**4/29/07 Sunday**//--we don't have class, but your team should have the final copy of your "qualities of good teaching" rubric posted to the class wiki by 6:00 pm on Sunday. That way people can print it out and include it in their EDU 101 notebook if they want.
 * 3/16/07** **F**--5 quotes
 * 3/21/07** **W**-EDU 101 notebook: Bring the notebook that is decorated on the exterior and has the 4 dividers. We will pass around the notebooks to share with classmates. Be ready to explain the meaning of the decorations on the exterior of your notebook.
 * 3/23/07** **F**--Bring eCampus printouts of you and your faculty advisor; bring an eCampus printout of your peer mentor (you will have to ask your peer mentor to make that available to you) OR bring a Myspace, Facebook, or self-made information sheet about your peer mentor showing name, contact info, and photo if possible. Bring a printout of your 4-year schedule from Schedule Builder.
 * 3/30/07 F**--Read the 20 page document from the [|Ruby K. Payne Poverty Series]. Prepare a Quick Response for each of the four main sections (Understanding and Working with Students and Adults from Poverty, Building Learning Structures Inside the Head, Working With Students From Poverty: Discipline, Campuswide Interventions That Improve Student Achievement). Make each quick response a separate blog entry. The title for each entry should be the name of the section. The tags for each should be the same: QR, poverty (that means you'll have two tags, one is "QR" and one is "poverty" without the quotation marks).
 * 4/4/07 W**--Stake your claim on the class wiki artifact page for educational shifts; bring research, resource URL's, and graphics of your educational shift to class (electronic is best format but it's up to you).
 * 4/6/07 F**--Finish your educational shifts wiki page for Round 1.
 * 4/11/07 W**--Attend at least one presentation at Symposium Day.
 * 4/13/07 F**--1. Write a blog entry about a Symposium Day presentation you attended. Tell the name(s) of the presenter(s) and the topic(s). Tell what you learned about the topic(s) and what you liked/didn't like about the presentation(s) itself. Write another paragraph telling what you could possibly present at a future Symposium Day. Make the title "Symposium Day" and the tag QR. 2. Do the formative assessment.
 * 4/25/07 W**--Finish Round 2 (final round) of your educational shifts wiki page.
 * 4/27/07 F**--Finish the professional organization wiki page. Link the URL to the artifacts wiki page before class. Bring a printout or a write-up of the information on how to be a certified teacher for the location of your choice.
 * 5/2/07 W**--Bring your completed EDU 101 notebook to class.
 * 5/4/07 F**--UMF standards sharing.


 * May 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7: Portfolio Presentations**--though not required, attending at least one portfolio presentation will be very beneficial to both your success at UMF and becoming a teacher because at the end of your student teaching, you will have to do this, too. By attending one or more now, you'll get a feel for what's required of you in your portfolio and can start thinking about what you're going to do for yours. Most of your artifacts won't be collected until much later in your time here because hopefully, all your artifacts get better as time goes on, but it's good to be on the lookout your whole career. Here's the schedule: