Online Otrganization Leader Training needs to be completed BEFORE the Fall Student Leader Meeting on Monday, September 11, 2023 at 7 pm in the Carroll Room.
Organizations wishing to enroll other members of their organization should send their request to tbates@smith.edu.
RECURRING MEETING LINK https://smith.zoom.us/j/91621966155
EDC 311 Rethinking Equity and Teaching for English Learners
Students who speak languages other than English are a growing presence in U.S. schools. These students need assistance in learning academic content in English as well as in developing proficiency in English. This course is designed to provide an understanding of the instructional needs and challenges of students who are learning English in the United States. This course explores a variety of theories, issues, procedures, methods and approaches for use in English as a second language, bilingual, and other learning environments. It also provides an overview of the historic and current trends and social issues affecting the education of English Learners. Enrollment limited to 35. Priority given to students either enrolled in or planning to enroll in the student teaching program. Through this course, participants will gain
knowledge and skills to effectively instruct multilingual learners K-12. Successful
completion of the course qualifies an educator for the SEI (Sheltered English
Instruction) endorsement required for teacher licensure or re-licensure in
Massachusetts. Credits: 4 Renata Pienkawa
Normally offered each springWelcome! This course supports the Pre-Practicum experience for students pursuing Initial Licensure.
The course meets weekly on Monday afternoons.
| Credits: 1 | Max Enrollment: 0 |
| Course Type: Laboratory | Section Enrollment: 11 |
| Grade Mode: Credit/Non Credit | Waitlist Count: 0 |
| Reserved Seats: No | |
| Coreq: EDC 345D - Elementary Curric & Methods | |
| Time/Location: Monday | 3:05 PM - 4:20 PM / Seelye 105 | Instructional Method: In-Person |
This lab accompanies the elementary student teaching internship course EDC 345D. The focus of the lab will be the examination of student teaching dilemmas for discussion and reflection. Student teachers will be introduced to key topics germane to their internship while examining the student teaching experience. The course will bring together content knowledge, professional dispositions/caring, instructional methods, assessment strategies, collaboration, diversity, classroom management, and technology. In this lab, student teachers will also reflect on teaching and their plans for future learning, and work on building the portfolio of teaching required for state licensure. Only open to students in Smith's teacher education program. Corequisite: EDC 345D. S/U only. (E) | |
This course enables students to hone skills in writing creatively within the genres of nonfiction, poetry, and fiction. Over the semester, you’ll acquire essential tools for telling your stories — for choosing effective “form(s)” and language for the ideas, visions and emotions you wish to communicate. Students will draft, workshop, and revise three pieces of writing over the course of the semester, one each in the genres of creative nonfiction, poetry, and fiction.
Class learning includes participation in “workshop” sessions in which student work is read aloud and critiqued in a group setting. There will also be in-class writing exercises and discussions about process and revision. Students will be assigned to breakout groups for small group discussion during the week [all groups listed in the ENG 125-04 S’24 Shared Google Drive and will have particular responsibility for providing in- depth peer evaluations of the drafts of the other students in their breakout group at specified moments in the term. All students will also be expected to supply comments on shorter pieces-in-process posted on ENG 125-04 S'24 Word-Press by all the students in the course.
Assigned readings on craft will introduce, exemplify and enhance your understanding of particular aspects of craft and technique within the three genres of our focus. And because all serious writers learn the most important writerly lessons from masterful examples, we’ll also examine each genre through a variety of readings exemplifying practice within each genre.
This course offers the opportunity to experiment with forms of poetry and to read and discuss poems from a writer's point of view. The class will have a special focus on ekphrastic poetry or poetry in response to art, engaging Poetry Center events, the Smith College Museum of Art exhibitions, library archives, and special collections. You will make several trips to the museum and libraries, supported with writing prompts provided by the instructor. In addition to reading the required texts and attending or streaming Poetry Center readings, you will present the work of one poet whom you’ve studied closely and submit a portfolio of 10 poems and a brief reflection at the end of the term.
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