Wheaton College

Wheaton College

Norton, MassachusettsSpring 2015Ed. 260 Teaching and Learning

Margaret Werner, ext 3528 or 8220T and Th 3:30 to 4:50

Office Hours: Elisabeth Amen Nursery School I am generally always at the nursery school from 8:00 to 3:30 except on Friday afternoon and when I am teaching on campus. Please feel free to stop in any time or you can call ahead to be sure that I am there.

Text Book: There is not an official text in this class. I do suggest that you consider adding these books to your library. Living, Loving and Learning, Love , Leo Buscaglia and The Self-Esteem Teacher, Robert Brooks, American Guidance Please Dont Sit on the Kids, Claire Cherry, Fearon Teacher Aids (can be purchased through Amazon). Education is not a race. There is certainly not a starting pointnor a finish line. A diploma does not signify that one has won a race, but only that one has learned enough to go on learning at a particular level. David Elkind.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire William Butler Yeats

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. My personal approach creates the climate. My daily mood makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a childs life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situation, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized Haim Ginott.

Course Description:

Teaching and Learning is designed to help prospective teachers bridge the gaps between psychological theory and educational practice. This course introduces theories of development, including physical, social, emotional, and cognitive, gender and moral, as well as examining learning theories and various instructional models. Theorists to be discussed will include Freud, Erikson, Adler, Maslow, Gesell, Piaget, Vygotsky, Elkind, Gardner, Kohlberg, Watson, Skinner, Bronfenbrenner, Bandura, etc. Issues affecting development will be examined, including health, family, environment, culture, social economic status, and media. Questions will be raised as to how these theories enlighten and impact teaching and learning. Effective principles of instruction and current national trends including NCLB and Common Core will also be discussed.

Objectives:

-To reflect on characteristics of effective teachers

-To develop familiarity and understanding of theories of development

-To develop familiarity and understanding of theories of learning

-To make connections between learning and teaching

-To examine diversity in the classroom

-To look at learning from biological, social and environmental perspectives

-To examine theories of intelligence and how they relate to learning theory

-To discuss ways to assess effective methods of teaching and learning

-To develop an awareness for different teaching and learning styles

-To gain an understanding of behavior--neurological and environmentally based

-To work cooperatively in researching a type of educational system.

Course Requirement:

- Attendance and participation in class 20 points

- Group Project: 75 Points

Students will research one of the following topics Reggio Emilia, Montessori, Waldorf, Head Start, Home Schooling, Private Schools, Charter Schools,

Same Sex classrooms/schools, NCLB/ Race To the Top/Common Core Curriculum

- Mid term 70 points (take home)

- Final exam 70 (take home)- Major reflection papers 2 to 3 pages in length 15 points

Major Reflection Papers:

"How do students learn?

This paper may be based on personal experience or your field work experience . Field placement in public schools, (all grades) Head Start or local day care/nursery school settings. Requirement: 2 to 3 hours per week (15 hours) 70 points

The second paper is based on a movie or a book about teaching, such as The Breakfast Club, Dead Poet Society, Black Board Jungle, Dangerous Minds, Mr. Holland Opus, Stand and Deliver, Top of the Class. Freedom Writers, To Sir with Love, Dangerous Minds, Each paper should be 4 to 5 pages. 15 Points Minor reflection papers 50 points. Throughout the course students will be asked to reflect on a variety of quotes, articles, or random questions. Reflections will result in an accumulated grade.

One check = 2 points, two checks = 3 points, three checks = 5 points,

-Extra credit: 10 points if you attend a workshop or an activity sponsored on campus.

Total Points 385 for the course. You can always know your grade by dividing the points you have earned by the number of points you could have earned.

Jan. 22Getting Acquainted---What is Educational Psychology?

Reflection paper due Jan 30

A Teacher, I remember

Jan 27

Guests Charlotte and her team

Jan 29

Research design & Assignments in schools

Reflection paper due Feb 3

Dr. Phils test and sun signs are they valid?

Feb 3

Theories of Development

Freud, Erikson, Adler, Maslow

Reflection paper due Feb 5

Does birth order really matter?

Feb 5

Pavlov, Watson, Skinner

Reflection paper due Feb 10

Are children conditioned to behave as they do?

Feb 10

Bandrua, Brofenbrenner, Kolhberg,

Reflection paper due Feb 13 Two articles: Tiger Mom and

The Parent Trap and answer the question,

How did the environment you grew up in impact who you are? Feb 12

Cognitive Development

Piaget, Vygotsky , Gesell, Elkind

Reflection paper due Feb 17Articles passed out in class

Feb 17 Is there such a thing as multiple intelligence?--Gardner

Take Gardners test- reflect on the results and

an article on emotional intelligence Due Feb. 19

Feb 19

Assessing effective and not effective teaching

Feb 24 Different teaching styles and strategies

Refection paper Due Feb 26

What makes an effective teacher

Feb 26

What makes an effective learning environment?

Rethinking Space

March 3

Breaking into groups for research project March 5 Constructivist Approach to learning

Mid term distributed Due back March 24

College break March 9 - 13

March 17 Learning Styles

Assign major reflection paper

How Do students Learn? due March 26

March 19 Creating Curriculum and webbing

Film Over New England

March 24 Emergent Curriculumwhat is it?

Reflection paper Due March 26

Remembering curriculum from your school experience

March 26 Assessing LearningBlooms Taxonomy

Portfolios, criterion referenced, standardized tests, rubrics

Assign 3rd Major Reflection paper Due April 28

Analyze a teacher in a movie

March 31 Motivating Students---Film Robert Brooks

reflection paper: Due April 2

What if everyone started with an. A

April 2 Group Presentations April 7 Group Presentation

April 9 Group Presentations April 14 Group Presentations

April 16 Group Presentations

April 21

Richard Lavoie When the Chips are Down

April 23

Understanding behavior and how to deal with it

April 28 Discussion: Why teachers leave teaching

Second Major Reflection Paper due

A movie about a teacher

April 30

Evaluation and take home final

Due by May 1Other wonderful book to add to your library.

Cherry, Clare Is the left Brain Always Right? David Lake, 1988,

Please Dont Sit on the Kids, Alternatives to Punitive Discipline, Fearon, 1983

Collum, Albert, The Geranium on the Window Sill Just Died, but Teacher You Went Right on... 1971Crickshank, Donald, Bainer, Deborah, The Act of Teaching, McGraw-Hill,1999

Elkind, David, Children and Adolescents, Oxford University Press, 1981, The Hurried Child, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co, 1981, All Grown Up and No Place to Go, Teenagers in Crisis, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.,1984, Images of the Young Child, NAEYC, 1983, Miseducation, Alfred Knoph, 1987 The Sympathetic Understanding of the Child,birth to sixteen, Allyn and Bacon, 1994 reprint from 1931,Reinventing Childhood, Modern Press, 1998, The Power of Play, learning what comes naturally, DaCapo Lifelong Books, 2007

Fitzgerald, Jeanine, The Dance of Interaction, A guide to Managing Childrens Challenging Behaviors, Insight Press, 2005

Gesell, Arnold. The First Five Years of Life, Harper Row, 1940

Hancock, Emily, The Girl Within, Fawcett, New York 1989 Based on Mary Pipher's book Reviving Ophelia. Emily Hancock completed her doctoral dissertation on this subject.

Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy, Gollinkoff, Roberta, Einstein Never Used Flash Cards, Rodale, 2003.

Johnson, Spencer, Who Moved My Cheese? Putnam, 1998

Levin, Diane, Remote Control Childhood? Combating the Hazards of Media Culture, National Association for the Education of Young Children, 1998

Palmer, Parker, The Courage to Teach, Jossey-Bass,1998

Project Zero, Making Teaching Visible, Documenting Individual and Group Learning, Harvard, 2001.

Puaski, Mary Ann Spencer, Understanding Piaget, Harper and Row, 1971

Salend, Spencer, Creating Inclusive Classrooms, Pearson, 2003

Shores, Rima, Rethinking the Brain. New Insight into Early Development. Families and Work Insitute, 1997

Beverly Tatum, Why are the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria. Basic 2003Wolf, Maryanne Proust and the Squid, The Story and Science of the Reading Brain, Harper, 2007

Edward Zigler, Singer, Dorothy, Childrens Play, The Roots of Reading, Zero to Three, 2004