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Engaging Parents in Teaching and Learning (ECUR 898)
The term “parent engagement” represents a conceptualization of the positioning of parents in relation to school landscapes as integral and essential to processes of schooling. Course members will learn about aspects of parent engagement which ...
Continue reading...Representing Families Summer 2010 (ECUR 898)
26. September 2010
Representations of families exist everywhere – in literature and media, in our lived experiences of family and stories of others’ experiences, in curriculum documents and subject matter materials. Course members will explore dominant social, cultural ...
Continue reading...Connecting Research and Teaching.
31. July 2008
Currently, in preservice teacher education programs in colleges and universities, there is very little attention being paid to the development of teacher candidates’ thinking around engaging parents in their children’s schooling. While the topic may ...
Continue reading...Qualitative Research Methodologies (ERES 845)
25. July 2008
ERES 845 links my research and my teaching through an exploration of methodology rather than through the topic of parent engagement or parent knowledge. In this course, graduate students have the opportunity to learn and practice ...
Continue reading...Oracy and Literature (ECUR 273)
24. July 2008
ECUR 273 is an introductory language arts methodology course. In it, I provide students with opportunities to develop a vision of themselves as teachers which reflects and encompasses their knowledge of children as situated in ...
Continue reading...Early Childhood Education (EDUC 498)
23. July 2008
EDUC 498 is an elective course in which teacher candidates have the opportunity to explore current issues and trends in early childhood education. As a frame for the course, I ask teacher candidates to challenge ...
Continue reading...Parents and Education (EADM 892)
23. July 2008
EADM 892 is a graduate level course I co-planned and co-taught with Bonnie Stelmach, an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Administration. Like mine, Bonnie’s program of research focuses on parents. With her focus ...
Continue reading...Reading and Writing (ECUR 370)
23. July 2008
In ECUR 370, teacher candidates learn about teaching reading and writing at an elementary school level. As a synthesis assignment, I ask teacher candidates to write a parent newsletter for an imagined class in which ...
Continue reading...Children’s Literature (ECUR 373)
23. July 2008
In ECUR 373, I work with teacher candidates to develop an understanding of children’s literature as a “mirror and a window” for children. I want teacher candidates to be conscious of selecting children’s books for ...
Continue reading...Community Education (ECUR 401)
23. July 2008
In this course, I invite teacher candidates to re-conceptualize the schooling of children in the context of family and community and to learn how, as an educator, to step out of the school and into ...
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