Semester 96-1
395 -
4 CRITICAL INCIDENTS IN TEACHING:
THE TEACHER AS DECISION MAKER
Section: E1.00
? Scheduled Final Exam: NO
PREREQUISITE
60 credit hours
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Instructor: L. Bickerton &
M. Adam
Office: 8634mpc
Tel: 291-4432
Fax: 291-3203
E-mail: Laura_Bickerton@sfu.ca
This course offered for pre-service and in-service teachers who wish to participate in the examination of educational
issues and the influence of these on classroom practice. Such influence may have a deep and pervasive effect upon the
degrees of freedom and emotional health of professionals, upon their beliefs and values, about the profession itself, and
upon their subsequent professional practice.
This course uses contemporary film and readings to raise levels of awareness about factors influencing teachers' decision
making through examination of a variety of critical incidents in teaching. Films, books, journal articles and written case
studies are supplemented by focused goup discussions. It is through this critical examination that students become more
aware of personal decision making in their own professional and educational contexts.
OBJECTIVES
1.
To promote greater understanding of and appreciation for the various and complex issues that
influence personal decision making.
2.
To provide opportunities to examine the tension between philosophical beliefs, educational
issues and classroom practice.
3.
To promote an awareness for the value of case method teaching as an instructional model in the
examination of complex issues.
REQUIREMENTS
1.
Attendance and Participation
2. Case Study Analyses
3. Personal Responses
4. Summative Project
Student grades will be determined through a process of self-evaluation and instructor feedback against competency in
the course requirements.
READINGS
?
REQ REC
Wassermann, S.
?
Teachers College
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Introduction to Case Method
Press, New York, ?
Teachng: A Guide to the Galaxy
N.Y.
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