ELAN 3461 Service Learning in Teacher Education
Mondays, 4:40-7:25PM
116/117 Aderhold Hall
Professor: Peter
Smagorinsky
Office Phone:706-542-4505
Community work with adolescents
(mentoring, tutoring, etc.), common readings in education, and interactions
with professional educators. English education majors build on individual
and shared experiences and readings to examine issues of English education
in public schools.
Non-traditional format: Discussion plus community service work.
My Description of Service Learning in
Teacher Education
This course involves UGA students who aspire to teach in
a tutoring relationship with a community member whose cultural background
and life experiences are substantially different from their own. This community
member will be a secondary student enrolled in Classic
City High School: A Performance Learning Center
My goal for the class is for
each of you to develop a personal and academic relationship with an Athens-area
teen or adult who comes from a cultural background that is different from
your own. Through this experience, you will:
Please download and
read each of the following documents:
Clarke
County Public Schools Volunteer Information Form
Classic
City High School (PLC) Mentoring Guide
Athens/Clark
County Criminal Background Check Form
Please also download
and read the English Education Quality
Assurance Contract, which outlines the expectations for professional conduct
during your work at Classic
City High School: A Performance Learning Center
The following link
takes you to an article on sexual attractions between female teachers and
male students. You will be only slightly older than the students you work
with and need to be aware of pitfalls of attractions to them. In particular,
you need to be aware of the consequences of trying to "rescue" a
"bad boy." The article was written by a UGA doctoral student based
on her Ph.D. dissertation. Got your attention yet?
Johnson,
T. S. (2004). ''It's pointless to deny that that dynamic is there'': Sexual
tensions in secondary classrooms. English Education, 37, 5-29.
LEGAL NOTICE:
Effective July 1, 2012, Georgia House Bill 1176, Part V, Mandatory Reporting
of Child Abuse, Section 5-1, requires volunteers who work with children, including
educational services, to report suspected child abuse. The state code reads
in part as follows: "If
a person is required to report child abuse pursuant to this subsection because
that person attends to a child pursuant to such person's duties as a member
of the staff of an employee of or volunteer at a hospital, school, social
agency, or similar facility, that person shall notify the person in charge
of the facility, or the designated delegate thereof, and the person so notified
shall report or cause a report to be made in accordance with this 1214 Code
section." Natalie Cox, in UGA's
Legal Affairs office, adds: "Volunteers should report immediately to
the director of the facility and their UGA faculty advisor. In trainings or
informational packets with volunteers, you may wish to provide this in a writing
that includes a name and contact information of the director and advisor.
They can certainly contact Office of Legal Affairs with questions and the
UGA advisors should notify us immediately if they receive any reports."
Note: The course syllabus is a general plan for the course; deviations announced to the class by the instructor may be necessary.
Please prove me right on this.