This document outlines the goals and assignments for Week 1 of a teacher education course. Students are asked to reflect on who they are as teachers and who they want to become. They complete assignments including an autobiography, philosophy of teaching, and unit plan. They are encouraged to consider their end goals and how to integrate course concepts into their future teaching practice. Key themes are beginning with the end in mind, understanding curriculum, and developing as lifelong learners.

2. Week #1: Begin With the End in Mind
or “There and Back Again”
 Critical Evidence for the Week: Article
Response, Autobiography
Timeline, Resume, Cover
Letter, Symbaloo/Shelfari updates, Philosophy of
Teaching, Letter to your former self, other
assignments, etc.
 Required Reading for the Week: one of several
selected articles, Introduction – “How to Integrate
the Curricula”
 Pre-assessing your learning
What do you need to “end” your training?

3. Who are you as a teacher?
What kind of teacher are you?
What kind of teacher do you want
to be? In 5 years? In 10 years?
Describe Your Journey:
http://www.dipity.com/bgalloway/
personal/
5 Things I still wish to learn/know before
I graduate with an Education Degree to
teach.

4. The Top 5:
 The Interview Process
(questions, eportfolio, preparations, cover
letters, etc.)
 Getting a Teaching Job (subbing, letters of
authority, interim certificate, finding the
“right job”, TQS, etc.)
 Having a successful APT practicum
(preparations, teaching tools/class
management tips, differentiation
strategies, CL techniques)
 Creating an integrated unit plan

5. ….more questions (The Question Box)
• Curriculum review questions (16 Effective Characteristics of
Middle Schools)
• What is your end? How will you know when you are there?
How will you get “here to there”?
• What are the essential understandings/Big ideas you have
acquired from the Middle Years Program?
• What knowledge, skills and attributes define you as a quality
teacher?
• What do you still need to learn to secure “your end”?
• What are your essential questions?
• What will it take to get the “Dreamland Middle School” job?
What about your eportfolio?
• What criteria will the principals use for hiring?
• Course requirements
Everything you ever wanted to know, but were afraid to ask…
about teaching….about this course…about the assignments…

6. When I become a teacher…
 The Past:
 The Present:
 The Future:
Finish the sentence…..
Send a letter to yourself….

7. Week #1: Begin With the End in Mind
or “There and Back Again”
 -Seeing/Discussion: Movie Trailer: The Hobbit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOGsB9dORBg
-Seeing/Discussion: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbGNcoB2Y4I
Chapter Presentations:
Brochure Exemplars
Movie Trailer Exemplars

8. Begin with the end in Mind
To begin with the end in mind means to start with a
clear understanding of your destination. It means to
know where you’re going so that you better understand
where you are now so that the steps you take are always
in the right direction.
-Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective
People, 1989, p. 98
What is your “end”?
Course Site:
https://sites.google.com/a/ualberta.ca/middle-years-education-program/

9. Planning for Learning:
Quality Instructional Design
“Those who Fail to Plan
…..Should Plan to Fail.”

11. The Quality Teaching Document
defines the end….and the
beginning
Alberta Education:
http://education.alberta.ca/media/
311294/421.pdf

12. …and the future?

14. …Further Thinking and Doing
 Complete the “Logistics” part of your integrated unit plan
(e.g. What grade/subjects/topics will you be teaching
during practicum? Print off/save program of studies for
your designated grade/subject/topics and have with you at
all times (due next Tuesday)
 Professional Reflection: You will assigned one of five
readings (placed on Googlesites). Please read and provide
a one page reflection on how you feel this article is relevant
in terms of our conversations/key learning this week (due
next class)
We Swim Together, or We Sink Together
“
JUMP IN – The water’s fine, and so is the learning