One

=Welcome to Week One!=

Our focus this week will be on introducing ourselves and sharing ideas for how to get to know our students better.

As we all have experienced, meeting the members of a new group, be it classmates or in-laws, can be little scary. Different groups have different norms and expectations, and none of us really likes change all that much.

So it is that getting to know the members of your group is important. In a classroom, this helps us to establish a safe learning environment. It also helps us indicate to whom we are speaking--by giving ourselves labels we call names.


 * Readings/Viewings**
 * 1) Read through page 25 in the //Never Work Harder than Your Students// book.
 * 2) View the lecture below.
 * 3) Watch the interview clip Part 4 from Robyn Jackson (you'll have to scroll down the page to find it.)


 * Tasks**
 * 1) Become a member of this wiki. You will need a wikispaces account and can sign up for one here if you don't already have one. Where it asks, "Make a wiki?" Click no. [] Once you have an account, you can click "Join this wiki" at the top of the page to become a member.
 * 2) Create an introduction of yourself using Voki that you could use on a class website, wiki, or blog. Post the Voki in the corresponding page at the right.
 * 3) Go to the Discussion Board and reply to at least one question, then respond to two others' comments.
 * 4) Please take the self assessment in the Never Work Harder than Your Students book on pages 7-25. You can use the Self Assessment Answer Record Sheet to write down your letter scores (if you don’t want to write in your book. Then use the Assessment Scoring Guide to tally your responses. Use this to give yourself an overall score, plus a score for each of the principles in the book. You do not need to share this; just keep it for your own reference in future assignments.[[file:SelfAssessmentAnswerRecordSheet.pdf]]



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