REVISED EDC 448 Course Schedule – Spring 2014
Date
March 11
March18
(T)
Workshop
March 20
(TH)
Seminar /
Sharing
March 25
(T)
Seminar
March 27
(TH)
Workshop
April 1 (T)
Seminar
April 3
(TH)
Workshop
April 8 (T)
Workshop
April 10
(TH)
Workshop
April 15
(T) Wkshp
April 17
(TH)
Sem/Wkshp
April 22
April 24
April 30(T)
Workshop
Topic
MARCH 10-14
Getting Their
Attention: Setting a
Purpose and
Backwards Design
Getting Their
Attention:
Frontloading
Activities
Building Academic
Vocabulary with
Bricks & Mortar
Addressing the Needs
of English Language
Learners
Critical Reading and
Questioning Strategies
Instruction to Support
Rehearsal and
Elaboration
Instructional Practices
to Support Organizing
Using Assessments &
Backwards Design to
Guide Learning
Supporting Lesson
Plan Development
Evidence-Based
Reasoning and
Student-Centered
Discussion
Teaching Your Lesson
Teaching Your Lesson
Theory Into Practice
Conference
Readings Due
 SPRING BREAK
 Tovani Ch. 5 Why Am I Reading
This? (pdf)
 Buehl A: Ch. 4 Frontloading
Instruction to Activate and Build
Academic Knowledge
 Buehl B: Activating PK (45, 70,
82, 107, 162)
 Interactive Websites
 #14A Schwartz & Raphael (1985)
[BRICKS]
 #14B Zwiers [MORTAR]
 Buehl B (66, 70, 175, 183, 186)
 #13A Lawrence, White & Snow
(2010)
 #13B. SERP Website
 #13C. CCSS for ELLs
 Beuhl A: Ch. 5 – Inquiring Minds
 Buehl B (73, 133, 137, 151)
 #15. Lensky (2008) Critical
Literacy and Social Action
 Beuhl A: Ch. 6 (p. 216-240)
 Beuhl A: Ch. 6 (p. 241-262)
 Beuhl B (42, 50, 86, 97)
 Tovani, Ch. 8 All These Sticky
Notes (pdf)
 #16 Guskey (2008)
 Review Theory Into Practice
Assignment
 Tovani, Ch. 7 Group Work
 #17. Teaching Channel Video
Selections on Evidence Based
Reasoning and Discussion
Assignments Due
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TASK #4: Argumentation
Response - Rigor or
Accessibility?

RR#9: Frontloading Activities
(post your ideas on Google docs
link given on wikispace – see
directions under March 18)
Work on Diverse Text Set
RR#10: Vocabulary (1 page
reading guide)
TASK #5: Diverse Text Set due
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TASK #6: ELL Interview Task
due (for seminar)
SCHEDULE LESSON PLAN
MEETINGS THIS WEEK!
SCHEDULE LESSON PLAN
MEETINGS THIS WEEK!
SCHEDULE LESSON PLAN
MEETINGS THIS WEEK!
Lesson Plans Due

Theory Into Practice Conference
Proposal

Conference In-Class
Presentation - handouts posted to
WIKI by start of class time