Core 1. Pedagogy and the Urban Classroom
(3 credits; 30 hours plus conferences; 15-20 students per offering)

Tentative Course Outline

1. Language and Discourse of Teaching

• Controlling metaphors; the image of the teacher
• History of teaching; professional narrative
• Teacher discourse and planning
• Language of limitations and possibilities; monologic and dialogical structures of discourse
  

2. Situation of Teaching

• The urban classroom and urban students
• Social functions of teaching; public education and political expectations
• Culture(s) and institutions; models of schooling
• Democracy and education
  

3. Students

• Teaching and learning
• Developmental frames; intelligence and social construction
• Experience and education
• Class, gender, race, and ethnicity
  

4. Content of Teaching

• Disciplines and interdisciplinary teaching
• Pedagogical content knowledge
• Cultural literacy and monoculturalism; multicultural content
• Content and testing
  

5. Performance of Teaching

• Teacher behaviors and roles
• Planning and curriculum
• Texts and contexts
• Classroom environments
• Aesthetics and ethics of teaching
  

6. Technology of Teaching

• Cybernetics and assistive technology
• Multimedia learning
• Transmission and communication; archiving
• Efficiency and economy
  

7. Development of Teaching

• Novices and experts
• Reflection and analysis
• Supervision and collegiality
• Teacher research and writing
• Multiple roles and models
  

8. Evaluation of Teaching

• Models and expectations
• Instruments and assessments
• Replication and reconstruction
• Research

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