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Introductions

Purpose

Today you will be introduced to the course and learn about theory, practice, and their relationship.

What grade-level do you want to teach? What do you want students in your course to have learned by the end of the school year?

Introductions

• Instructor introduction
• Student introductions
  • Who are you?
  • What is your pedagogical background?
  • Where do you want to teach? What grade level?
• Introduce course and syllabus
• Calendar
• Readings
• Resources
• Professional Writing Principles for Instructors

Discussion II: Theory, Practice, & Praxis

We will discuss the following questions as a means of establishing a foundation for the intellectual work we will be doing this semester.

• What is theory? What are discourse communities? How do we build theories of education?
• What is practice? How do we design practices for the classroom?
• What is praxis? (Hint: It's not the test)