24 aspiring teachers kick-off TEACH! SouthCoast
Today is the first-day of TEACH! SouthCoast 2009-2010…
The 24 cohort members are meeting each other for the first-time as they begin EDU 500, Fundamentals of Teaching and Learning—their first accelerated TEACH! SouthCoast licensure course with program director, Dr. Carol Pelletier Radford.
In less than two weeks, the cohort members will become classroom teachers or apprentices (student teachers) in Fall River and New Bedford middle and high schools.
Today, Dr. Radford preps the cohort on strategies for the first-day of school, and illustrates classroom management with advice and activities from her own teaching experience.
Let’s listen in and observe the cohort in class:
10:00 am — Introductions and activities. Pick a postcard from Dr. Radford’s pile. Stand in a circle and tell the other cohort members why you selected the card (example of first-day of school activity). Discussion: more ice breaker and introductory activities for middle and high school students.
10:45 am — Overview of TEACH! SouthCoast program and course schedule. Description of difference between a teacher of record and an apprentice. A teacher of record manages his or her own classroom as a paid teacher. An apprentice or student teacher shadows a veteran teacher or mentor in the classroom.
11:15 am — Video: The Effective Teacher, featuring Harry K. Wong. “The three characteristics of an effective teacher are: 1) has good classroom management skills; 2) teaches for mastery, and 3) has positive expectations for student success.”
12:30 pm — Lunch
1:15 pm — Quiz
1:35 pm — Read and reflect: What Urban Students Say About Good Teaching, article by Dick Corbett and Bruce Wilson.
2:00 pm — Panel: Issac Riberio, Jim Strader and Eddie Henderson, three former TEACH! SouthCoast cohort members from cohorts 1 and 2, join UMass Dartmouth professor Dr. Rosa to define urban education from their experience.
