This document outlines the course organization, evaluation, and activities for an education course. It will include weekly online discussions, two presentations as literacy leader, a novel coding activity, a group novel promotion, and a large collaborative teaching unit worth 35% of the grade. Students will engage in Professional Learning Conversations online and analyze the reading using techniques like Q-charts. They will also explore questioning skills and genres of writing. The course will involve studying a novel selected from the Forest of Reading lists on Sakai.

1. EDUC 8P20
Session 1
2014-15
Ruth McQuirter Scott, Ed.D.

2. Agenda
• Course Organization
– Syllabus
– Planning Chart
– Evaluation Component
– Sakai

3. Evaluation
• Professionalism/participation: 10%
• Professional Learning Conversations
– Weekly postings 15%
– Literacy Leader (twice) 10%
• Novel study
– Coding activity 5%
– Group promotion of novel 5%

4. Evaluation cont’d
• Infographic 20%
• Collaborative inquiry unit 35%

5. PLCs
• Professional Learning Conversations
– Readings
– Posting: quiz / discussion questions
– Literacy leader
• Questioning Skills
– Lego Man in Space
– Q-Chart
– Padlet
• Response form
• Sign-up schedule

6. Lego Man in Space
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAlSnkuB
2ws&list=UU7fUmGzDBMy0SgwWVTEQOPQ&
index=5
• http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2012/0
1/28/the_science_and_engineering_behind_l
ego_mans_balloon_voyage.html

7. Being Alive
Being alive is opening a Christmas gift
and finding tickets to Europe
Turning a corner in Paris
and spotting the Eiffel Tower
Finding the perfect art book for my son
in a tiny Parisian shop
That’s being alive.

8. Whisking under the English Channel
in the comfort of a train
Sitting mesmerized with my daughter
as Wicked plays in London
Splurging on a silk scarf
I’ll be too nervous to wear
Lunching at the Inns of Court
sure that Harry Potter is bound to appear

9. Standing in the resting place of
Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton
That’s being alive.

10. Being Alive
Being alive is _____ing ___________
_____ ing ______________________
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That’s being alive.
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That’s being alive.

11. Writing Genres
• Expressive
• Poetic
• Expository
• Persuasive

12. Novel Selection
• From Forest of Reading
– SAKAI:
• Lesson 2 / Novel Study
– Silver Birch (Gr. 3-6)
– Red Maple (Gr. 7-8)
– White Pine (Gr. 9-12)