TE 408-6 Spring 2010 Course Calendar

Date Topic Assignments DUE

Week 1 Power, Classroom Management and

1/11 Democracy
1/13
Readings:
Week 2 • Anyon, “Social Class and the Hidden
1/18 – No Class Curriculum of Work”
1/20 • Ladson-Billings, “But That’s Just Good
Week 3 Teaching! The Case for Culturally Relevant
1/25 Pedagogy”
1/27 • Selections from Fay & Funk, Teaching with
Love & Logic
Week 4
2/1
2/3 – Visit Holt HS

Week 5 Social studies disciplines

2/8
2/10 Readings:
• Kincheloe, selected reading from Getting
Week 6 Beyond the Facts
2/15 • Schweber, “Holocaust Fatigue:” Teaching it
2/17 Today
Week 7 • Donadio, “The Story of Night” Ethnography – 2/22
2/22 • Wiesel, Night
2/24

Week 8 Solo Lesson – 3/5

3/1
3/3

Week 9 3/8–3/10
Spring Break – No Class

Week 10 Teaching various social studies texts

3/15
3/17 Readings: TBD

Week 11
3/22
3/24
 TE 408-6 Spring 2010 Course Calendar

Date Topic Assignments DUE

Week 12 Technology and social studies

3/29
3/31 Readings: TBD

Week 13 Creating a thematic unit

4/5
4/7 Readings:
• Parker & Hess, “Teaching with and for
Week 14 Discussion” Lesson Sequence –
4/12 – Intern Panel • One book selected from the following 4/16
4/14 • Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a
Week 15 Part-Time Indian
4/19 • O’Brien, The Things They Carried
4/21 • Spiegelman, Maus I or II: A Survivor’s
Tale
Week 16 • Sacco, Palestine Creed #3 – 4/28
4/26 • Houston, Fairwell to Manzanar Final Unit – 5/5
4/28 • Beals, Warriors Don’t Cry Citizenship Report –
5/5

FINAL EXAM DATE: Wednesday, May 5 3:00-5:00 p.m.