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"Issues for the Beginning Teacher"

Intersession, 1985

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Instructor: Dennis Smith

Mondays and Wednesdays

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Location : MPX 8620

8:30 -12:20

Participants in this course will tackle some of the non-curricular

concerns of beginning teachers. The overall design can be divided into three

main themes - The self (exploring the partricular demands the initial phases

of teaching place on individuals); the school (its social, administrative,

political, cultural workings); and the system (large-scale factors affecting

education in D.C. and North America). Within each of the subsections we will

explore a variety of particular topics. The course will make extensive use of

resource people from the faculty, university and public school system.

Within the courses general plan, students will also define their own

issues, based upon personal experience and need. Since the course is

intended to make links between the students practical experience and the

university, students will be required to produce work that is personally

useful and useful to other beginning teachers. Students will complete a

major project as well as readings and short assignments.

Some of the sessions conducted by visiting resource people will be

open to all interested 404 students.