Graduate Credit Action Plan Requirements (1 credit)

1. Attendance: All workshop sessions.

2. Reading: Teaching for Equity, provided on the first day of a workshop, is included with your workshop fee. Read the daily assignments from the text provided.

3. Graduate Credit Registration Information: See your welcome letter for graduate credit registration steps.

4. Journaling: Two journal entries are due during the workshop: on the mornings of days 2 and 3. Thoughtfully answer the reflection prompts for each day. If you print materials to hand in, do so in Times or Times Roman 12-point type.

JOURNAL REFLECTIONS

Day 1: Workshop Reflections

  • Reflect on the day’s discussions, activities, and readings. List some key insights you had today. Pose questions that you have about what you learned.

Day 2: Workshop Reflections

  • Reflect on the day’s discussions, activities, and readings. List some key insights you had today. What Teaching for Equity practice are you interested in pursuing for your action plan and why?

5. Action Plan: You action plan paper is due within a week of the last workshop day. Choose a practice from the workshop week that you want to implement. Use the attached Action Plan content and organization sheet to guide your writing.

1-credit Action Plan Coversheet

Attach this coversheet to your Action Plan.Please print carefully and make a copy for yourself.

Name:
Workshop: / Teaching for Equity
Workshop Site: / Start Date / Facilitator
Accrediting School: / Hamline St. Mary’s Other
Your School:
School Address:
City/State/Zip:
Grade Level/Position:
School E-mail:
Home E-mail:
Home Address:
City/State/Zip:
Telephone: / Work / Other

NOTE: Your advisor will need an e-mail address to contact you during the summer.

Your Action Plan and coversheet are due within one week of the workshop’s end.

Please make a copy for your records before submitting your coversheet and plan to:

Sarah Biros, Registrar

The Origins Program: Education for Equity

Action Plan Content, Organization, and Thinking

Write your responses to prompts 1-5 on a separate sheet(s) ofpaper, and attach to the coversheet.

1. REFLECTION:Describe in detail a challenge, an issue, or a question you have experienced in your teaching that can be impacted by the use of a Teaching for Equity practice. What might your students say if they were asked about their perspective on this?

2. CHOICE OF PRACTICE: Describe what Teaching for Equity practice might address your question or challenge and support your students’ needs and how it would?

3. OUTCOME: How will your use of the above practice impact your teaching, students, and school? What outcomes might you be able to observe or measure?

4. ACTION: What sequence of actions will you take in your implementation of the Teaching for Equitypractices that address your issue? What is your detailed timeline?

5. RESOURCES: What materials and people are available to help you?