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| Seminar leader (and author of this web page): | Bob Broad, Associate Professor of English and Director of English Education. (Click on the link for information about Professor Broad.) | |
| Other Seminar Info: | Calendar | Online Discussion for Student Teachers in English (WebBoard) |
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Location, times, and dates for seminar meetings
All meetings of the Professional Issues Seminar will take place in Stevenson 401 at Illinois State University unless otherwise noted. Meeting times for all days will be 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Student Teachers are required to attend all events listed, including Seminar meetings, the HISED Conference, and the English Education Banquet.
Meetings Prior to Student Teaching
Meeting During Student Teaching
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Meetings After Student Teaching
Note: Student Teaching for spring 2001 begins Monday, February 5, and ends Friday, April 27.
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Course Overview, Goals, and Expectations Welcome to the Professional Issues Seminar. To help you prepare for--and support you throughout--student teaching this spring, the Seminar will provide you with important opportunities, activities, experiences, and information. Remember that the seminar comprises an integral and important part of your student-teaching experience; we expect you to attend and participate in the seminar with the same quality of commitment and professionalism with which you should approach student teaching itself. |
Teaching Journal. During both the seminar and student teaching, you will keep a journal recording your questions, answers, thoughts, ideas, problems, solutions, etc. related to teaching. During the seminar Prof. Broad will ask you to write in response to specific topics and readings, usually one in preparation for each meeting of the seminar and often brief writings during the seminar itself. During student teaching, you must write at least one reflective journal entry each week (therefore a total of eleven during student teaching) based on your evolving experiences and concerns. You may, of course, write more if you find it helpful. Entries written during student teaching must be mailed to your University Supervisor each week.
Teaching Plans. During the seminar, you will share teaching plans to be used during student teaching. You will, of course, need to be working with your cooperating teacher to find out what you will be teaching. Based on that knowledge, you will design teaching plans and share them in order to receive the appreciative and critical readings of your fellow student teachers. These teaching plans, and specific lessons from them, will provide the basis for small- and large-group discussions in the seminar.
Participation. Your active, critical, and creative participation in the seminar will enhance your own learning and that of your peers, your professor, and your university supervisor. For that reason, you must arrive promptly for every meeting of the seminar, having done the assigned reading and writing (and whatever else) thoroughly and thoughtfully. Missing more than one meeting of the seminar is grounds for failing the seminar, which will lower your grade for student teaching unless you meet with Prof. Broad immediately following your absence and carry out a plan to compensate the group for your absence through supplementary work. Two late arrivals are equivalent to an absence in this moral formula.
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