Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook

 

 

 

Spring 2025 Learning Log

 

Spring 2025 TEAMS Survey

 

Welcome to the Course Slides 

 

LGBTQ+ History and Civil Rights Wiki pages

 

• Lavender Scare & Alan Turing

 

• HIV/AIDS & Harvey Milk

 

• LGBTQ Rights Court Cases & Masha P. Johnson

 

• Title IX & Sally Ride

 

SHOW: LGBTQIA+ Digital Choice Board 

 

 

Tutoring In Schools and Other Learning Settings too

Education 457 Spring 2025

 

Leadership in Multicultural Tutoring 

Education 557 Spring 2025

 

 

Weekly Classes meet in ILC N 111, Tuesdays 4-6:30 p.m.

 

This wiki is our course techbook; there is no textbook for this class. 

 

 

Office hours by appointment Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

 Email sae@umass.edu or rwm@educ.umass or speak with instructors after class Tuesday.

 

 

Spring 2025 Education 457 Course Syllabus w/link to Education 557 Course Syllabus

 

 

 WEEKLY ASSIGNMENT TO COPY TO YOUR LEARNING LOG

 

 

 

 

TEAMS 

Together Everyone Achieves More Success

 

 

  

 

 

1. Tutoring Others for Learning

 

20 hours in person or virtually

 

Education 457 students tutor

20 hours a semester, 2 hrs. each week on a schedule.

 

Who might you tutor?

• younger or older sisters and brothers

 

• friends and roommates

 

• neighbors

 

• anyone in your extended family

 

• members of the community where you live

 

• students in an online tutoring program

 

• children you are babysitting or caring for

 

• college students if you are a TA for a University course

 

• In University RSOs (student clubs and organizations like Science Outreach Club; Education Club  

 

America Reads/Counts Tutoring for Work Study Eligible Students & ALL students who want to tutor in a school 

 

•  Education 497I works in partnership with the Five College America Reads/Counts Program

 

Tutoring Others and Tutors for Teachers

There are always teachers, after-school programs, or other educational organizations who would like a tutor to help them prepare learning experiences for students in elementary, middle and high schools.

• You might be a resource person for a teacher and count those hours as tutoring others.

 

 

 

2. Tutoring Yourself  for Learning

 

20 hours on a regular/weekly schedule to learn something you want to learn.

 

Education 457 students invest 20 hours throughout the semester in self-tutoring, a regularly scheduled weekly learning experience. 

 

Leadership in Multicultural Tutoring, Education 557, students do 10 hrs. of self-tutoring in the semester.

 

What could/will you learn?

Coding, yoga, juggling, skateboarding, math, poetry writing, baking, playing guitar, ukulele, or piano, knitting, crocheting, painting, drawing, playing digital games, exercise programs, calligraphy, basketball, golf, mixing or writing music, speaking a new language.

 

Requirements for choosing what to learn:

 

Your choice cannot be something you are required to do for another course.

 

Choose one thing to learn; do not change topic areas weekly or occasionally. 

 

You have the materials and the place to do the weekly practice.

 

See wiki page Self Tutoring Ideas and Resources .

 

 

 

 

3. Weekly Reading, Viewing, and Doing Assignments

 

ASSIGNMENTS are completed each TUESDAY BEFORE our 4pm class begins. Each week you will be:

 

• Reading short articles and text on the wiki page of the week;

 

• Viewing/hearing videos and podcasts as learning resources;  

 

• Creating materials from your own imagination and experience

 

• Completely answering all questions in weekly assignments in a Google learning log Tuesdays by 4 p.m. 

          

 

4. Attending/Participating in Weekly Tuesday Classes 

 

Each weekly class begins promptly at 4 pm, ILC N 111.

 

The class format is small group interactive workshops, whole class experiences

and site meetings, small group conversation with course site coordinators discussing weekly learning and progression of tutoring self and tutoring others.

 

 

 

 

Email course instructors any questions or topics you would like to discuss.

 

Robert Maloy

rwm@umass.edu

 

Sharon Edwards

sae@umass.edu

 

 

 

Schedule of Classes Spring 2025

 

PART 1: Foundations for Tutoring and Learning

 

• Class 1 February 4:  IN CLASS Introduction to TEAMS: TUTORING IN SCHOOLS 
  

 

• Class 2 February 11: First Assignment Multiple Methods of Learning, Mindsets and Mistakes 

 

• Class 3 February 18:  Second Assignment Digital Connections/Montessori Principles for Learning 

   

 

PART 2: Tutoring READING, WRITING AND MATH 

      

• Class 4 February 25: Third Assignment Tutoring Reading

 

• Class 5 March 4: Fourth Assignment Tutoring Writing    

 

• Class 6 March 11: Fifth Assignment Tutoring Math (October 8 is Ada Lovelace Day)

 

 

PART 3: Students and Schools

 

• Class 7 March 25: Sixth Assignment Universal Design for Learning 

 

• Class 8 April 1: Seventh Assignment Whose History Whose Science 

 

• Class 9 April 8: Eighth Assignment English Language Learners

 

• Class 10 April 15: Ninth Assignment  Impacts of Poverty on Learning 

 

 

PART 4: TRANSFORMING LEARNING FOR ALL

 

• Class 11 April 22: Tenth Assignment LGBTQIA Histories, Inclusive Language, Safe Schools & Classrooms 

 

• Class 12 April 20: Eleventh Assignment Diversity Through Culturally Relevant Anti-Racist Teaching & Learning 

  

• Class 13 May 6: Twelfth Assignment Envisioning Multicultural Schools 

 

 

Education 457 (TEAMS Tutoring) addresses requirements for the following academic programs

 

 

STEP Accelerated Masters Program (4 Plus 1)

This course serves as a Prerequisite for undergraduates who intend to apply for the Accelerated Masters degree in Secondary Teacher Education for mathematics, science, English/language arts and history teaching.

  

 

Undergraduate Minor in Education

This course fulfills a Domain 1: Teaching & Learning requirement for the Undergraduate Minor in Education

 

 

College of Education Community Education and Social Change Major 

This course fulfills a course requirement in the Teaching and Learning/Pedagogy/Curriculum Domain 3 within the major.

 

 

Service Learning

This course is designated a Service-Learning (SL) course

 

 Service-Learning is an approach to teaching that engages students in a mutually beneficial relationship with the local communities to enhance the academic and civic learning experience and benefit the community. The community-based work is defined in response to a need or aspiration presented by one or more partnering community organizations and for which core issues of impact, sustainability and reciprocity have been addressed. The course also includes preparation of students for service, engages the students in reflection on the service and assesses the student learning as well as the community impact.

 

University Civic Engagement and Public Service Certificate

 

This course meets two requirements for the University's Civic Engagement Public Service Certificate.

 

• SL (Service Learning Praxis) where the course connects the classroom and the larger world through service learning with a substantial civic engagement orientation.

 

• DP (Diverse Publics) where the course conducts an in-depth exploration of different constituencies in contemporary American society; specifically public schools.

Service-Learning at UMass Amherst is supported by UMass Civic Engagement and Service-Learning (CESL).  UMass CESL promotes learning for life-long, engaged citizenship, partnering with communities on and off campus to work collectively for a more just society.

 

 

Open Educational Resources

 

This course participates in the University's Open Educational Resources initiative. All materials used in the course are freely available online.

• Read about the teaching methods in TEAMS in Wikis, Workshops and Writing: Strategies for Flipping a Community Engagement Course, Journal of Educators Online, 11/1, (January, 2014).

 

 

America Reads/Counts

This course works in partnership with the Five College America Reads/Counts Program

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Podcasts to inform concepts, knowledge and ideas introduced in TEAMS classes and in tutoring.

 

Podcast Recommendations from ISTE

 

TED Radio Hour

NPR Science Friday NPR

NPR Fresh Air

NPR How I Built This

NPR Radiolab

Choose episodes to hear. Write a brief reflection of your learning from the resource. How does this resource inform you about growth mindsets, multiple modes of learning, and/or building confidence by taking risks.

 

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