This document outlines the course details and expectations for EDUC 8P15 Teaching and Learning: Schools and Communities. The course will involve assignments like an oral presentation on students' educational experiences, narratives reflecting on readings and placements, and a final reflective paper on observations from a 12-15 hour field placement. Students will study personal and professional experiences in education through a narrative inquiry approach. They will develop skills in reflection, revealing insights, and considering reforms. The course aims to benefit students by exploring the informal and formal influences that have shaped them as emerging teachers.

1. WELCOME
to
EDUC 8P15

2. EDBE 8P15
TEACHING AND LEARNING: SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES PJI
Course Co-ordinator/Professor:
Dr. Darlene Ciuffetelli Parker/Nancy Gallacher
Instructor: Eileen Elizabeth Carey (Beth)
E-mail: ecarey@brocku.ca

3. Class Agenda
• Welcome
• Introductions
• Outline course expectations, assignments,
etc
• What shapes us as teacher candidates?
• Model Oral chronicle
• Assignment Sign Up

4. Getting to Know You
NAME
FAMILY
EDUCATION & CAREER
SPORTS/CRAFTS/
LEISURE ACTIVITIES
SOMETHING NOT
MANY PEOPLE KNOW
ABOUT YOU!

5. Course Outline
• Course Topics
• Expectations
• Evaluations
• Assignments

6. Course Description

7. Learning Objectives/Outcomes

8. Readings
• Assigned readings – Sakai*
• Ontario College of Teachers – Foundations of
Professional Practice (www.oct.ca)
• Experience and Education- John Dewey
• Connelly & Clandinin (2006)
• Visual Texts and Picture Storybooks in Class
* it is the student’s responsibility to access
readings and come prepared with readings
completed for each class

9. Expectations of Learners

10. Evaluation
Evaluation % Due Date
Oral Chronicle Presentation 20% Sign up basis
Narrative of Education 15% 2 weeks after Oral Presentation
Related Literacy Narratives 20% Session 8 (weekly on SAKAI)
Field Placement Reflection 35% By session 9
Professionalism 10% Ongoing
See Rubrics in Syllabus

11. 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

12. Academic Integrity

13. Oral Chronicle 20%
• 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, 5
minutes will be devoted to oral feedback and
discussion. Peers will provide written feedback
at the conclusion to the presenter.
• Presentations can take various formats.
• Please be accurate in your time allotment; have
a peer keep time and advise you for cut off 
•

14. Narrative of Education 15%
• Final essay (written 5-8 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.
• Due 2 weeks post Oral Chronicle

15. Related Literacy Narratives 20%
• Form a group of 3 (sign up on SAKAI)
• Professional discussion of readings and
relating them to personal or placement
experiences
• Weekly assignment to build a reflective
foundation of candidate knowledge
submitted weekly on Sakai forum
• Each candidate will write one letter and
respond to another student’s letter once (2
letters in total per student)

16. Related Literacy Narratives cont’d
• A group hard coly in chronological order is
due Session 7
• Each letter should be a minimum of 2-3
pages double spaced
• Refer to rubric for evaluation
• You may use any reading from Session 1
through Session 10- find something of
interest to you to write about!

17. Field Placement Reflection 35%
• 12-15 hours (minimum) of observation time
• Observational only not a volunteer or instructional
placement!!!
• Valid Police Check Required!!!!!
• Location needs to be in place by Session 2
• Placement is student responsibility
• 8 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 (with grace period if necessary).
• Evaluate how theory works in practice and the outcomes
for students and teachers ☺

18. Professionalism
• Respect is Key!
• Co-operative generation of criteria…..
• Personal self evaluation will be a
component
• Final assignment of grade will be the
instructor’s discretion

19. ACTIVITY:
• How will the study of personal experiences
in education benefit you?
• Draft your chronical map
Informal experiences (outside of school)
_________________________________________
Formal experiences (inside school)

20. BREAK

21. WHAT DOES IT MEAN
TO BE A TEACHER IN
ONTARIO TODAY? IN THE
WORLD AS WE KNOW IT?

22. 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)

23. 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
Athlete
Clerk of Session
8P15 and 8P20
Instructor

24. Life is an opportunity

25. Family

26. Use your experences

27. Inspire

28. Challenge yourself

29. Experience Life

31. ...always new learning
Dean James Ryan's 5 Essential
Questions In Life
• https://youtu.be/bW0NguMGIbE

32. Who are you…as a beginning teacher?
RECAP: Do you understand the course content?
NEXT CLASS:
1.Complete first letter
2.Read Dewey Chapters 1 and 2
3.Read Connelly & Clandinin Narrative Inquiry
4.Bring notepaper for chronicle feedback
5.Bring a sentence from Chapter 1 or 2 that
intrigued, puzzled., confused, or affirmed a belief
you have held.
6.Get your Placement Organized!
7.Take time for yourself!!!!!!!