C&I 209, Section 08 C&I 209, Section 08 Welcome!Welcome!

C&I 209, Section 08 C&I 209, Section 08 Welcome!Welcome!August 23, 2011August 23, 2011

Please make a name card and Please make a name card and

sign the attendance sheetsign the attendance sheet

Today’s Class• Introductions• Walk through the syllabus• Definition of Literacy• Share Literacy Experiences and

beliefs about Literacy Instruction

My contact Information Dana KarrakerDeGarmo 235, ph:438-8537, 454-

9653(h)Email: dmkarra@isltu.eduOffice Hours: By appointment or online

with SkypeSkype: dana.karraker

Important Info on Communication

• Please use ilstu email to contact me at dmkarra@ilstu.edu (Department policy) I can only use your university email address to correspond with you

• You are welcome to call my home phone before 9:00 p.m. (If email absolutely won’t do)

• When clinicals begin and you have a last minute emergency that will prevent you from being at your site, call or text my cell phone: 530-9653 and leave a message. You must also contact the classroom teacher.

• Assignments and resources will be placed on Blackboard which you can access through your ICampus Portal. I will check email here occasionally but please see above

Criminal Background Checks….

• All C&I 209 students are required to complete a Criminal Background Check

• Schedule; http://www.teacheredcenter.ilstu.edu/requirements/criminalbackgroundcheck/index.shtml

• Try to take care of that this week

Getting to Know You • Name and where you’re from• Interesting information about yourself

(i.e. family, interests, something you accomplished or hope to accomplish)

• A favorite literacy experience

Syllabus Review• This is also posted on the C&I

Department Web site and on Blackboard

syllabus

Group Think• Self-select groups of 3-4• Use the Web and discuss your understandings

about Literacy (What do you remember from 208?)– Things to consider:

• What were your literacy experiences and how do they compare with the thoughts on your web?

• Why do teachers need to examine these thoughts and beliefs?

• How do you think your beliefs will impact the work you will do with students?

• Be prepared to share you thoughts with the whole group

Read-AloudThe Box by Toni and Slade Morrison

Make a Connection- As we read, think about:• What you have experienced in school• What this story is saying about how

children are positioned school• How a person’s identity may be formed

through the actions of others

Assessment Tool Kit• First assignment• You will need this for each tutoring session• Assignment guidelines are posted on

Blackboard• Think of books you might want to collect

to use.• Look for “found” materials at home• Examples will be shown in class

Next Time• Get your Textbooks and Packet from PIP

Printing• Read Choice Words, Ch. 1&2, • Read Blackboard articles: I Want Her to Know

Me and Kidwatching, Ch. 1• As you are reading, fill out the I Read, I

Thought sheet that is posted on Blackboard• Print off the Book Walk page that is posted on

Blackboard and bring it to class.