WEDNESDAY

**My Educator Identity:** //What do I bring to the classroom in terms of knowledge, skills, resources, issues of power, contexts of race and culture, and identities? How does this affect the development of my philosophy on education?//

** Small Group Agenda **


 * DO NOW
 * Please sit with your journal group.
 * Review of Yesterday's Reflections
 * Please skim everyone's reflections from yesterday. Please take note of a statement that resinates with you and be prepared to share it.
 * [|Exit Ticket Responses - Tuesday.doc]
 * Journal Group Discussion: Educational Theories
 * Take a minute to review the first group-specific article you read (not math-specific).
 * Take 5-10 minutes jotting down your ideas to the following questions:
 * What do you bring to the classroom in terms of knowledge, skills resources, issues of power, contexts of race and culture, and identitites?
 * How did this reading inform your philosophy on education?
 * In what ways doe the philosophies mirror or diverge from Haberman's pedagogy of poverty?
 * With your journal group members, take 10-15 minutes to discuss what you wrote.
 * Body Biographies of Educational Philosophies
 * Body Biography.pdf
 * Break
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Role Plays
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Education Philosophy Articles.pdf]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Role Play Guidelines.pdf

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** ~LUNCH~ **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">DO NOW
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Please sit with your journal group.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Take a minute to review the second group-specific article you read (math-specific).
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Take 5-10 minutes jotting down your ideas to the following questions:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">What do you bring to the classroom in terms of knowledge, skills resources, issues of power, contexts of race and culture, and identitites?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">How did this reading inform your philosophy on education?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">In what ways doe the philosophies mirror or diverge from Haberman's pedagogy of poverty?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">With your journal group members, take 10-15 minutes to discuss what you wrote.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Whole group debrief
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Each group share their math perspective
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">What are the parallels between these math-specific perspectives and the educational philosopies we discussed earlier today?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">How does all this inform your beliefs about how math should or should not be taught?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Break
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Text Rendering of "A Talk to Teachers"
 * text_rendering.pdf
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Design your math classroom
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Draw upon your beliefs and understanding of poverty and Baldwin's article to design your classroom. Use images, words, symbols, and drawings.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Preview Thursday
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Implications and Reflections
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Exit Ticket]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** Tonight's Readings **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Ayers, W. (2004). Where might we begin with teaching? In Salas, K., R. Tenoria, S., Walters, and D. Weiss, (Eds.), //The New Teacher Book: Finding purpose, balance, and hope during your first years in the classroom//. Milwaukee: Rethinking Schools, Ltd.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;">*Delpit, L. (1996). The silenced dialogue: Power and pedagogy in educating other peoples’ children. Harvard Educational Review. 58(3), 280-298.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Michie, G. (2004). Teaching in the undertow. In Salas, K., R. Tenoria, S., Walters, and D. Weiss, (Eds.), //The New Teacher Book: Finding purpose, balance, and hope during your first years in the classroom//. Milwaukee: Rethinking Schools, Ltd.