In Our Unit Plan,
We Put Our Knowledge
Into Practice
in the Classroom.

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Greetings Interns, 

Autumn has officially arrived, and you are well into the swing of the "Fall" semester.  So far we've explored ideas for the Action Research Project and examined how action research takes place in the classroom.  We've also thoroughly discussed the connection of the Danielson domains to your internship.  We've also talked about how a PACE lesson can be used to teach grammar in a context through story-based instruction.

But the key factor of the semester is putting what you learn into practice.  Your most exciting assignment is the Unit Plan, which provides evidence of your ability to plan, implement, and assess instruction for student learning.  This assessment asks you to reflect and describe the entire process of thinking about teaching and learning — from the individual in the classroom to the community factors that impact student engagement.  The most important part is implementation of your plan in the classroom.  You get to try it out and see if it works.  The final part of the plan is reflecting on your successes and challenges.

Semester two of the MAT is designed to deepen your knowledge about your own ability to teach, to reflect on how others teach, and to connect theory to practice.  The unit plan and the action research project focus on your scholarship, while the E-flections and daily lesson plans support you as a practitioner.

Your immersion in the school setting provides a comprehensive experience in the day-to-day habits of public school education.

Best wishes and continued success for the remainder of the "fall" semester.

 
Dr. Bowles

Freddie A. Bowles
Associate Professor of Foreign Language Education
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
College of Education and Health Professions
Peabody Hall 312
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Office: 479-575-3035
fbowles@uark.edu

MAT 2014-2015 Cohort
Fall Semester, 2014

Links to your study resources
will be posted here throughout
the semester.  Check often for new links. 

PACE:  Introducing Form through Story-Based Lessons. We've provided a link to the document.
Just click and go!

Different languages — I mean the actual vocabularies, the idioms — have worked out certain mechanisms of communication and registration. No one language is complete. A master may be continually expanding his own tongue, rendering it fit to bear some charge hitherto borne only by some other alien tongue, but the process does not stop with any one man. While Proust is learning Henry James, preparatory to breaking through certain French paste-board partitions, the whole American speech is churning and chugging, and every other tongue doing likewise.
     — Ezra Pound, "How to Read," 1929