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  • Working with students at Apache Elementary School, will provide an authentic setting in which to put theory and practice together as we learn from the children more about ourselves personally and as professionals. Our Oral History Family Stories project will be the collaborative lens in which we will puursue our learning this semester. We will record our teaching plans and reflections weekly on our webpages. This practicum experience will help us connect practice with theory.
  • Creating your own Chautauqua character from your own family to perform for 4th graders at Apache will prepare us for our storytelling coaching roles.
  • Writing, editing and workshoping your own family story will prepare us for our storytelling coaching roles.
  • Chronicling our weekly learning and events as we each take turns as the class scribe.
  • Our course text will serve as a resource for strategies, theories, cultural understanding and practical applications to prepare you for taking the TESOL endorsement exam and/or teaching in diverse learning settings.  You will be responsible for presenting Chapter Presentations with a partner.
  • Selected anthologies provide us with other cultural contexts to talk about in a relaxed, social atmosphere.
  • In an effort to understand our communities, we will each share a community find where you will be reponsible for making arrangements for our class visit.
  • Invitng guests to our classroom will augment our learning experience such as: Laura McClenny, ENLACE, Kathy Hurst from San Juan Media in Blanding, Utah; FMS bilingual staff; Jon Brinkerhoff & Tryphenia Peele-Eady, Salina Bookshelf Publishers, Commission on Race Relations.
  • Our webpages are intended as a medium to house your your learning and other intellectual property throughout the semester. Since it is your webpage, you own the material and content and thus empowers you as the author. Your webpage becomes a documentation , scrapbook, if you will, of your learning over time this semester. It remains yours even after the completion of our time together.
  • You will have the opportunity to reflect at midterm and final about your learning experiences as a way to help clarify for yourself what you know and a way to share improvements for me, your course instructor.

Enjoy our semester together as we learn from each other!

Frances