Event Title
Collaboration for a Curriculum of Caring
Location
Dolan School of Business
Start Date
29-5-2014 3:45 PM
End Date
29-5-2014 4:45 PM
Session Type
Roundtable Discussion
Description
The proposed session shares a collaboration among faculty and students from School Psychology and English Education to collaboratively design, teach and evaluate standards-based English curricula that integrates social-emotional learning standards. Presenters will share our emerging collaborative curriculum—and the process we used to create it—and engage in a dialogue around questions and dilemmas that drive our work: How might we collaborate in higher education to prepare P-12 educators and support professionals to engage in collaborative practices that address issues of care? How might we re-imagine content classrooms as places where teachers and school psychologists collaborate to make care a central component of the curriculum, rather than a tangential strand woven in in the wake of unthinkable tragedy? What role might educator preparation programs play in facilitating this type of collaboration? Our presentation shares efforts to proactively and collaboratively create holistic curricula that integrate academic, social and emotional content.
Topic Designation
Teaching & Learning
Presenter Bio(s)
Paula Gill Lopez
Associate Professor, School Psychology
Department of Psychological & Educational Consultation
Fairfield University
Emily R. Smith
Associate Professor, English Education
Department of Educational Studies & Teacher Preparation
Fairfield University
Collaboration for a Curriculum of Caring
Dolan School of Business
The proposed session shares a collaboration among faculty and students from School Psychology and English Education to collaboratively design, teach and evaluate standards-based English curricula that integrates social-emotional learning standards. Presenters will share our emerging collaborative curriculum—and the process we used to create it—and engage in a dialogue around questions and dilemmas that drive our work: How might we collaborate in higher education to prepare P-12 educators and support professionals to engage in collaborative practices that address issues of care? How might we re-imagine content classrooms as places where teachers and school psychologists collaborate to make care a central component of the curriculum, rather than a tangential strand woven in in the wake of unthinkable tragedy? What role might educator preparation programs play in facilitating this type of collaboration? Our presentation shares efforts to proactively and collaboratively create holistic curricula that integrate academic, social and emotional content.