TE 803 - 8 Tentative Course Calendar

Date and Readings for In Class Activities Assignment Due

Objective This Class
Class 1 • Hospital Unit • Ice breaker/Introductions
(ANGEL) • Review syllabus
Jan. 12 • Lake article • Curriculum/integrated
(ANGEL) curriculum
Class/unit plan • Parent letter as part of the
introduction unit plan
• Analyze hospital unit plan
• Work session for Part I & III
of unit plan
Class 2 • Special Ed • Bring Money for course • Sign up for Inclusion
Inclusion – pack Task Force Group on
Jan. 19 Friend & Pope • Connect social studies to ANGEL - go to ANGEL
(ANGEL) special education groups, do a keyword
Special Education • Explore and evaluate special search for “inclusion”
• Brophy and education case studies and then subscribe to
Alleman Ch. • Workshop on the Inclusion Task
4 overview accommodations Force group
of unit plan • Work session for Part IV of • Unit Plan, Part I
your unit plan (draft) --
posted to ANGEL as
yourlastname.part1.doc
• Unit Plan, Part III
(draft) --
posted to ANGEL as
yourlastname.part1.doc

Class 3 • Brophy & • Review the social studies

Alleman, Ch. themes and establishing a • Unit Plan, Part II
Jan. 26 2 learning community (Draft)
• Identifying high incidences –
Creating a unit for • Friend & special needs
YOUR students Bursuck Ch. • Does your unit plan fit your
7, high- learning community needs?
incidence • Work session for Part IV of
special unit plan
education
(ANGEL)
 TE 803 - 8 Tentative Course Calendar

Date and Readings for In Class Activities Assignment Due

Objective This Class
Class 4 • Brophy & • Review the reading
Alleman, Ch. • Identifying adaptations for • Unit Plan,
Feb. 2 14 your students with special Part IV --
needs posted to ANGEL as
Defining and • Read Friend • Special education yourlastname.partIV.doc
identifying special & Bursuck, terminology
needs and special p.305 – 320, • Introduce Special Education
education students from Ch. 9 Fact Sheet assignment
(Angel)

Class 5 • Friend & • Defining adaptations

Bursuck, pp. • Handling multiple student • Unit Plan,
Feb 9 320 – 352 adaptations Part V
Ch. 9 • How should adaptations look • Unit Plan, Part III
Adapting (ANGEL) in your lesson plan? (if additions were
instruction for • Adapting your unit plan to made to draft)
students with • Selected your special needs students
special needs readings • Identify your topic for the
from special special education fact sheet
education assignment
(cpk) • Work session for Unit Plan,
Part V

Feb 16, 23
NO CLASS
Mar 2, 9

Class 6 • Selected • Film: Misunderstood Minds

readings (90 mins)
March 16 from special
education • Workshop time for Unit Plan
Film: (cpk) revisions
Misunderstood
Minds
Class 7 • Reflections on lead teaching
• Difficult aspects of
March 23 conversations about special
needs students
Reports on field • Workshop: SPED Fact Sheets
teaching
experiences

March 30
April 6 NO CLASS
 TE 803 - 8 Tentative Course Calendar

Date and Readings for In Class Activities Assignment Due

Objective This Class
Class 8 • Friend & • Review of the reading • Fact Sheet
Bursuck, pp. • Scenarios/case studies of Presentations
April 13 33-52 Ch. 2 difficult conversations
(ANGEL) • Lesson Study workshop
Legal • Difficult • SPED Fact Sheet
responsibilities Conversations Presentations
related to special synopsis
education (ANGEL)

Encountering and
conducting difficult
conversations

Class 9 • Friend & • Finish SPED Fact

Bursuck, pp. Sheet Presentations • Lesson study
April 20 53-70 from • Review reading assignment
Ch. 2 • Strategies for expressing
Legal (ANGEL) your philosophy
responsibilities • Using your philosophy as a
related to special basis to answer interview
education questions
• Responding to sample
Interview interview questions
questions / cover • Lesson study debriefing
letters
Class 10 • none • Job search strategies • Assemble the Unit Plan
• Mock interviews into one complete
April 27 • Celebration! document and post to
ANGEL
Preparing for the
job search