3. 3
Land acknowledgement
We acknowledge and honour
the ancestors of those whose
traditional land we gather on
daily.
Brock University is located on
the shared lands of the Original
Peoples, which became known
as the traditional beaver hunting
grounds.
The Aboriginal Education
Council and Brock University
work collaboratively to keep the
importance of our shared
history, friendship, and future
relations in our minds and
hearts.
4. ✘ “Welcome
✘ The Wright Family
✘ Introductions
✘ Outline course expectations, assignments,
etc
✘ What shapes us as teacher candidates?
✘ Model Oral chronicle
✘ Assignment Sign Up
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Agenda
5. Course Outline
✘ Course Topics
✘ Expectations
✘ Assignments and Evaluations
✘ My responsibility and your responsibility
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6. Readings
✘ Assigned readings – Sakai
✘ Ontario College of Teachers – Foundations of
Professional Practice www.oct.ca
✘ Connelly & Clandinin (2006)
✘ Visual Texts and Picture Books in Class
✘ *it is the student’s responsibility to access the
readings and come prepared with readings
completed for each class
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7. Expectations
• Attend class regularly and actively participate. (Makeup
assignments are required for missed classes)
• Adhere to punctuality for class sessions and submission of
assignments
• Respect views of others as they pertain to the qualities of
teaching
• Participate in a learning community of care with positive
professional thinking
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8. Evaluation
Oral Chronicle 10%
Narrative of Education 30%
Related Literacy Narratives. 30%
Field Placement Paper 20%
Professionalism 10%
Evaluation and Due Dates
Due Date
Sign up 1st class
2nd class after OC
Weekly on Sakai- Forums
3% for 10 weeks
By Week 9
Ongoing
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9. Oral Chronicle Presentation
✘ • Oral presentation of your educational life as it
relates to both family stories (educational
experiences of family and community) and school
stories (educational school stories).
✘ • Following the 15-20 minute presentation, peers
will provide written feedback to the presenter (‘little
note”).
✘ • Then, 5-10 minutes will be devoted to oral
feedback and discussion in small groups
✘ • Please be accurate in your time allotment; have a
peer keep time and advise you to cut off time
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10. Related Literacy Narratives
✘ • House groups (sign in on SAKAI)
✘ • Write one paragraph independently to summarize
(recover) reading/s, at least one day before class,
beginning week 2
✘ • Write corresponding letters to one another during
class after reconstructing reading/s together (time
allotment provided in class)
✘ • Post letter to your group on SAKAI
✘ • This routine will be done weekly beginning week
2, until week 11
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11. Field Placement Reflection
✘ • 12-15 hours (minimum) of observation time (most
students do more for their own interest)
✘ • Police Check required
✘ • Location needs to be in place by Session 2
✘ • 3-4 page double spaced field placement paper about
your field placement outlining what you observed,
using Schwab’s 4 Curriculum Commonplaces, what
you learned about teaching and how it relates to the
course’s theory. Due Session 9
✘ • Submit on SAKAI with field placement sign off
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12. Written Narrative of Education
✘ • Final essay (written 8-10 pages double
spaced). References must be APA
✘ • A detailed narrative which represents your
personal professional educative experience as
it relates to course discussions, readings,
theories etc and the significance to your future
goals as a teacher/educator.
✘ • Submit on SAKAI
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14. Who has helped to shape your
story?
Think-Pair-Share – Who have been some of your favourite
or most impactful teachers, in life? What was it about
them that made them stand out?
15. Understanding Ourselves, as
Educators, through Narrative
Inquiry
Narrative Inquiry is a way of
understanding experiences as lived,
and as told through stories.
Experience is told as story.
Education is experience. (Dewey)
16. John Dewey, father of educational
philosophy (1859-1952)
✘ “Education is life itself .”
✘ - John Dewey
“Arguably the
most influential
thinker on
education in the
twentieth
century.”
–(Smith, 1997)
17. WHAT DOES IT MEAN
TO BE A TEACHER IN ONTARIO TODAY? IN
THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT?
18. Narrative Inquiry
✘ Narrative is a way of understanding experiences as
lived and as told through stories
✘ The life of teaching is a process…always with new
learning ☺
✘ How will the study of personal experiences in
education benefit you? Consider both your informal
(outside of school) and formal (inside school)
experiences
✘ The 3 R’s which we will be studying form a part of
all assignments (reflect, reveal,reform)
Experience is told as story. Education is experience
(Dewey)
19. Who am I?
Retired
Classroom
Teacher
Retired Itinerant
for Gifted
Education
Board Member
Masters
Swimming
Artist
Mother, Partner, Friend
My Personal Professional Life:
Images of Teaching
Retired Social Justice Elementary Chair
Athlet
e
Clerk of Session
8P15 and 8P20
Instructor
22. In two or three columns
Yellow
Is the color of gold,
butter and ripe
lemons. In the
spectrum of visible
light, yellow is
found between
green and orange.
Blue
Is the colour of the
clear sky and the
deep sea. It is
located between
violet and green on
the optical
spectrum.
Red
Is the color of
blood, and because
of this it has
historically been
associated with
sacrifice, danger
and courage.
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23. A picture is worth
a thousand words
A complex idea can be
conveyed with just a single
still image, namely making it
possible to absorb large
amounts of data quickly.
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30. Who are you…as a beginning teacher?
RECAP: Do you understand the course content?
NEXT CLASS:
1. Read Connelly & Clandinin Narrative Inquiry
2. Read Ciuffetelli Parker (2010 )
3. Write your one paragraph to summarize the readings and
post on Sakai in your group (must be there by
Wednesday midnight
4. Bring notepaper for chronicle feedback
5. Get your Placement Organized!
6. Take time for yourself!!!!!!!
