| Session | Class Focus | Assignment |
| January | Week 1 | |
| M/ 13 | Introduction to course; assignments
Katherine Christie, Berea Middle School Apply for “Level 1” volunteering in order to tutor here: |
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| W/ 15 | “Theme for English B,” Langston Hughes
“Eleven,” Sandra Cisneros |
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| F/ 17 | Course Rationale
Foucault, “The Means of Correct Training” Poverty and Testing in Education: “The Present Scientifico-legal Complex” |
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| January | Week 2 | |
| M/ 20 | MLK Day (no class) | |
| W/ 22 | Groups formed, topics chosen
“Banking concept”; Freire, Ch .2 Pedagogy of the Oppressed |
Topic 1 reflection email DUE before class session |
| F/ 24 | Topic 1, Freire continued
Choice text 1 UPDATE 20 October 2019: Grit, Education Narratives Veneer for White, Wealth Privilege |
Read, share choice text 1 in-class |
| January | Week 3 | |
| M/ 27 | Topic 2: Educational Philosophies
“A generalized crisis in relation to all the environments of enclosure”: Deleuze |
Topic 2 reflection email DUE before class session |
| W/ 29 | Topic 2 continued | |
| F/ 31 | Mary Fairbairn, Library: Searching for high-quality sources
Group assignment workshop in-class Out of town |
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| February | Week 4 | |
| M/ 3 | Poverty and the ideological imperative: a call to unhook from deficit and grit ideology and to strive for structural ideology in teacher education, Paul Gorski | |
| W/ 5 | Topic 3: Historical Foundations of Education | Topic 3 reflection email DUE before class session |
| F/ 7 | Thomas Jefferson on Education
“The American Scholar,” Ralph Waldo Emerson Choice text 1 Out of town |
Read, share choice text 1 in-class |
| February | Week 5 | |
| M/ 10 | Corridor of Shame (documentary) excerpt | |
| W/ 12 | Topic 4: Diversity, Multiculturalism, Poverty/Privilege, Class, and Race
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The danger of a single story |
Topic 4 reflection email DUE before class session |
| F/ 14 | James Baldwin on education (1974) A Talk to Teachers, James BaldwinJames Baldwin’s Lesson for Teachers in a Time of Turmoil, Clint Smith Choice text 1 |
Read, share choice text 1 in-class |
| February | Week 6 | |
| M/ 17 | Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later (documentary) | |
| W/ 19 | Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later (documentary) continued | |
| F/ 21 | LRC discussion
Midterm assignment/explanation |
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| February | Week 7 | |
| M/ 24 | Choice text 1 | Read, share choice text 1 in-class |
| W/ 26 | Group Presentations Workshop | |
| F/ 28 | Midterm
Class discussion: Read But That’s Just Good Teaching! The Case for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Gloria Ladson-Billings and 74 Interview: Researcher Gloria Ladson-Billings on Culturally Relevant Teaching, the Role of Teachers in Trump’s America & Lessons From Her Two Decades in Education Research Connect as many aspects of the first half of the course as possible—topic readings, class discussions, documentaries, tutoring. Have key points in class to discuss in small groups before opening discussion to the whole class. |
Email to professor BEFORE class 5-10 key points per midterm assignment
Choice Text 1 Reflection DUE
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| March | Week 8 | |
| M/ 2 | Group Presentations
1. 2. 3. |
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| W/ 4 | Group Presentations
4. 5. 6. |
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| F/ 6 | TBD | |
| March 7-15 | Spring Break | |
| March | Week 9 | |
| M/ 16 | University schedule suspended | N/A |
| W/ 18 | University schedule suspended | N/A |
| F/ 20 | University schedule suspended | N/A |
| March | Week 10 | |
| M/ 23 | Topic 5: Legal, Political, and Financial | Topic 5 reflection email DUE before class session |
| W/ 25 | Return of the Deficit, Curt Dudley-Marling
“What These Children Are Like”: Rejecting Deficit Views of Poverty and Language Black Folk Hate White Tears and Blatant Racism More Than Charter Schools, Andre Perry |
Choose ONE, read, email brief reflection |
| F/ 27 | Choice text 2 | Email brief update of reading, cc all classmates and professor |
| March/ April | Week 11 | |
| M/ 30 | Topic 6: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment | Topic 6 reflection email DUE before class session |
| W/ 1 | Seven ‘great’ teaching methods not backed up by evidence
James Baldwin on education (1974) James Baldwin’s Lesson for Teachers in a Time of Turmoil, Clint Smith |
Choose ONE, read, email brief reflection |
| F/ 3 | Choice text 2 | Email brief update of reading, cc all classmates and professor |
| April | Week 12 | |
| M/ 6 | Topic 7: Current Issues and the Future of Education
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Topic 7 reflection email DUE before class session |
| W/ 8 | Choice text 2 | Email brief update of reading, cc all classmates and professor |
| F/ 10 | Good Friday (no class) | |
| April | Week 13 | |
| M/ 13 | Easter Break (no class) | |
| W/ 15 | Essay draft DUE
Exchange and give peer-review with at least 2 other classmates, cc professor with all of the exchanges. |
Essay draft DUE |
| F/ 17 | Virtual Schools Report DUE | Virtual Schools Report DUE |
| April | Week 14 | |
| M/ 20 | Hard Times at Douglass High (documentary) | [view on your own; substitute another documentary approved by professor if not available] |
| W/ 22 | Hard Times at Douglass High (documentary) continued | Email brief reflection after viewing |
| F/ 24 | Choice text 2 | Email brief update of reading, cc all classmates and professor |
| April/May | Week 15 | |
| M/ 27 | Tutoring share
Choice text 2 (last MWF class session) |
Read, share choice text 2 in-class
Choice Text 2 Reflection DUE |
| W/ 29 | ||
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| May | EXAMS | |
| Tu/ 5 | 8:30-11:00 AM | Final Portfolio (see below) submitted with all assignments included by email with every assignment as an attachment (scan originals when necessary) |
