Overview of Week

This week we continue to focus on the overarching questions of:

Who are our learners?
What role(s) do we, as teachers, play in the (1) construction of the learning environment, and (2) in the learning outcomes of each child?

This Week's Objectives

In this module, our activities, content, and assignments will help you do the following:

Objective 1: Discuss & interrogate concepts of a "good teacher" and "effective teacher"
Objective 2: Identify and examine the importance 2 key ideas for classroom learning environments:
- the "funds of knowledge" our students bring to the classroom - how to recognize, build upon, bridge into, and strengthen the knowledge and experiences learners bring to the classroom (e.g., their figured worlds and how their experiences and languaging within those worlds co-author and guide their lives, as well as their multilingualism, mobilities, and family resources)
Objective 3: Focus on the intentional creation of dialogic classroom learning environments - classrooms where students feel comfortable and safe in talking and engaging in critical and academic dialogues together
- What does it take to build a classroom where students will talk?
- What does a classroom where students develop a sense of belonging look like and sound like?
- What are the procedures and routines a teacher must put into place to establish dialogic interactions and a community of belonging, acceptance, and high academic performance standards?

Readings for Tuesday

review Beach, chapter 1

Read Suarez-Orozco, "Children of Immigration" article (notes in notebook)

For Thursday, choose 2 of the 4 articles to read before class & take notes for class discussion (notes in notebook).

*Various in-class activities and notebook writing

Be preparing your introduction poem & slide. Introductions will begin Thursday/Tuesday.