June 6 and 7

As you see, the first seminar session is on June 7, a Tuesday. The UNL first 5 week Summer Session begins Monday, June 6. I am asking that you come prepared to the seminar June 7, ready to hit the ground running to review the issue of assessment that will be the focus of the first comprehensive exam question, and it will be a tough one. What I envisioned is for you to use June 6 to complete getting ready for June 7, organizing the scholarly materials from your coursework on assessment and to compose the annotated bibliography.

Professional Standards

As you prepare for reviewing knowledge of and for the first seminar topic, assessment, I would like for you to bring with you June 7 the professional standards for reading/English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. These are the standards that you encountered in you methods classes. These are NOT the Nebraska State Standards or Lincoln or Omaha district standards, but national professional standards, e.g., NCTM, NSTA, ILA/NCTE, NCSS.

Start sorting...

I urge you to start sorting through and inventorying course materials now so you can identify the scholarly texts from your classes for the first TEAC 889 seminar topic, assessment. This will help you to create the annotated bibliography for June 7.

Apply for August Graduation

If you planning to graduate in August, you need to apply by June 10. You do this by signing into MyRED for the online Graduation Application form.

You can find instructions for filling out the application here.

TEAC 889 Blackboard

TEAC 889 is now up and running in Blackboard.