Comments for Friday’s class. (6/30/06)

I thought today was a really useful class. I hope my perception was correct. The activity came to me while I was reading Meier last night. “Teachers need frequent and easy give and take with professionals from allied fields – that is one mark of a true professional. They need opportunities to speak and write […]

Photos from ATI work.

G1: showing how the rotation will work. G2: Jan Marie’s travels. G2: Where’s Denali? G3: Strukturtopia. I never knew ATIs could be this much fun! G4: This is how we responded to Kristen. You bet your life! And the magic duck comes down… . Strukturtopia up close and personal. Instructions Strukturtopia style – FD and […]

Articles by David Berliner

This is the page from Berliner’s own website that provides links to articles he has personally authored of his choosing. The articles he’s chosen span his career and begin with an (incomplete) summary her wrote of the California Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study.

Topics from Berliner’s Two Articles

Berliner’s Topics The general failure to take the abstract and partial understandings of educational psychology and make them re-comprehensible to practical people is an unfortunate, unpleasant, and, I believe, a continuing part of our history . Bruner …identified storytelling as one of two fundamentally different modes of human thought, standing in contrast to the analytic, […]

ASCEND School

The Ascend School is one of several small schools that make up the East Oakland (CA) small schools initiative. The school serves a population of children who were failed by the traditional system. This video is one of many contained in the Edutopia website that document educational practices that work for children and youth who […]

Comments for Thursday’s Class (6/29)

Daily Topics and Assigned Readings

Monday, June 26, 2006 Meeting: Greetings and Introductions Orientation to Seminar Class Schedule Responsibilities Assignments: Overall and Daily Class Organization Using the Technology – WebCT Discussions CR: Tensions History Synthesis: Work: Assignments for Tuesday: Meier: pp. 3-36. Read handout: The 100 Year History of Educational Psychology(Berliner), or Telling the Stories of Educational Psychology (Berliner) Draft […]

Reflective Presentation Examples

Project Rubric

Needs Improvement Good         Excellent Criteria Ed. Psych. Areas (1) areas of ed. psych. ignored generalized one or two areas mentioned specific areas mentioned three or more Area of Interest (2) one or no criteria met two criteria met accurate some behavioral specificity three criteria met accurate and behaviorally specific Findings (3) opinion lacks support generalized […]

Course Rubric

Needs Improvement Good         Excellent Course Requirements Studenting misses more than one class, no contact with instructor demeaning group behavior, dominating tendancies unprepared for discussion misses one class, no instructor contact contributes to group discussion supportive group behavior misses no classes contributes to group discussion and process supports group affirms others in group Nightly Readings work […]