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NOTICE: Dr. Mulholland posted this on the URCOURSES site:

// On Monday, February 7, during your EPS class from 8:30 - 9:30 a.m., I'm coming for the promised extra session for the literacy lesson planning and teaching on Tuesday, Feb. 8. Also, attached is an itinerary for literacy advisory and a list of groups for reference. //

// On Thursday, Feb. 3 I was advised that all the grade 9 groups should be taught "Main Idea and Supporting Details" and grade 10 groups, visualizing. //

// To that end, please think about ways you might want to teach these strategies, and together, on Monday, we will refine and support each other's plans. Further, look for suitable passages for students to read at Tuesday's lessons either from your own resources from ERDG 332 or other classes. We will do the necessary duplicating of materials on Monday. BRING your ERDG 332 text to class. //

// See you Monday, // // Val //

The attachment she is referring to is:

1. Here is the course syllabus:

2. Note regarding your **Introductory Letter assignment**: There were a number of parts to this assignment - first you were asked to have your letter edited by one of your colleagues in the the class. Second you were asked to submit the letter to me for feedback. Once you received that feedback from me you were to complete the letter to your satisfaction and submit it to Jerry Orban in the professional development office so that it could be included with the material that will be sent to your pre-internship coop. Email your completed letter to Jerome.Orban@uregina.ca Please cc me on that email.

3. A number of you have asked about the nature of the Professional Portfolio assignment. Through the work we do in the classes and further explanation I hope you have some reasonable understanding of how that assignment should play out. The crucial bit of information in the assignment is: " This portfolio should go beyond recording your activities and your thoughts about these experiences. It should be a creative endeavour which drives you to understand, to articulate that understanding and to use this understanding as the base from which to continue your growth as a person, an educator and a life long learner. This creative endeavour should be based on a framework that you personally develop which allows you to systematically observe, reflect and analyse your experiences at Balfour Collegiate during this semester. " Given this paragraph in the assignment you should begin with recording your activities and thought about those experiences (an reflective diary), at the same time you should be formulating a personal approach to recognizing, thinking about and interpreting your experiences in the light of your own professional development. You can ask yourself questions like: What did I just experience? What did I learn here that will contribute to my own growth as a teacher? If I didn't learn anything why not? What could I have learned? How can I extend this type of growth? What professional development needs did this experience reinforce or uncover for me? Don't take these questions as your only guide - create your own - this is what I mean by creating your own framework for analysis.

4. In the Professional Portfolio assignment I indicate that on a regular basis I will be asking each of you to submit your work to date for feedback. We have been at Balfour for a number of weeks and have had many experiences (most of them serendipitous!!) so it is time to start the feedback process. Some of you will receive an email asking you to submit your work to me on Monday - my preference is that these be emailed to me but I recognize that some of you may be creating these portfolios in a way that can't be emailed. In that case I'd like the material submitted to me sometime during the day on Monday. If you're not asked to submit your work on Monday be prepared to be asked shortly thereafter. Just a head's up!