Write a description of what you plan on doing for your independent study component.
So far i have registered for a total of 3 seminars regarding teaching and history. A total of about 10 hours of work just in the month of November alone. I plan to continue to attend teaching seminars, and perhaps watch a documentary to reach the 30 hours.
Describe in detail how you think your plan will meet the 30 hours work requirement.
The first 10 hours i plan on attending seminars. For the other 20 i still do not know. Perhaps i can attend more seminars or try to take a class.
How does your independent study component relate to your EQ?
My EQ "What is the best way to teach U.S. History?" So attending these seminars I hope to learn more about teaching styles and different types of content. These seminars are MEANT for teachers so if by some rare chance the seminar itself doesn't help, i can ask around for information.
Taking the seminars is a good idea, but I would like to see you do something with it. Talk to Nav about getting ahold of some books that discuss teaching methods for history. You might also be able to sit in on a social science methods class up at Cal Poly (it's graduate level, so you'd have to make nice with the professor who teaches it). Then maybe you can write several lesson plans using different teaching methods and try them out on some people or video tape them...
ReplyDeleteI know English teachers have a journal. I found this group online. They even have a state rep in Long Beach who might be willing to give you some ideas.
http://www.nche.net/
This site has lots of publications...I bet you could even get them through the Cal Poly Library.
http://www.ncss.org/