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EDIS 771: Reading in the Content Areas
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Reading in the Content Areas is a course that explores how students comprehend and learn with text and how teachers can assist them in these processes. We explore the nature and meaning of comprehension, strategic teaching and learning, and what it means to learn with texts. The emphasis in the class is on the development of ways to think about the use of comprehension and content reading strategies within the context of effective instruction. Theoretical and foundational considerations help frame the exploration, modeling, and practice of a range of strategies. We use the Project CRISS model for our practical understanding of strategic instruction.
Between Summer 1999 and Summer 2001, I will have taught 18 sections of this course.
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EDIS 739: Academic Uses of the World Wide Web
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Academic Uses of the WWW provides students with opportunities to identify, understand, and develop resources that they can use in teaching or in other educational endeavors. The course depends heavily on materials available on the World Wide Web and the students use hypertext, hypermedia links, forms, maps, and related and developing technologies to produce final projects that demonstrate appropriate academic web-based applications.
EDIS 739 was created by Professor John W. Lloyd and subsequently taught by Professor James L. Huneycutt. My own work with this course benefited greatly from the solid foundation laid by these previous instructors.
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EDIS 589: Reading Comprehension Strategies
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Reading Comprehension Strategies is an intensive training session devoted to practical strategies for reading, writing, discussion, studying, and vocabulary in all content areas. The emphasis in the class is on learning a range of content and comprehension strategies that lead to greater independence by student learners and more effective instruction by teachers. The course serves concurrently as a training session in Project CRISS: CReating Independence through Student-owned Strategies.
The course is 1.0 credit hour.
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EDIS 560: Teaching Social Studies
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This section of Teaching Social Studies, the two-part methods course taken by all aspiring social studies teachers seeking licensure through the Curry School's teacher education program, was redeveloped and geared towards a group of Masters of Education students. The course explored the history and meaning of social studies, effective planning and teaching, assessment, standards, and technology integration.
The undergraduate sections of this course have been taught, traditionally, by a full-time faculty member in Social Studies Education. This 2.0-hour credit section was of special design and implemented by me, but the faculty member retained status as instructor-of-record.
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Samples
full syllabus [pdf]
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Cultural Geography of the Non-Western World
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The seventh grade social studies curriculum in North Carolina from 1992-1996 focused on Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Rim. We attempted to answer five primary questions with each region studied:
- Who are the people, and what are their beliefs and values?
- How do they make a living?
- What is the environment where they live?
- How has their society changed over time?
- How are they organized and governed?
Fundamental to our exploration of each area of the non-Western world, the Five Themes of Geography lent organization and substance to our understanding of the peoples studied and their respective environments.
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1992-1996
Leesville Road Middle
Carnage Middle
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Language Arts
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The seventh grade language arts curriculum in North Carolina from 1992-1996 focused on literature, grammar, spelling, and vocabulary acquisition. We approached it as an examination of the "Art of Language," creating connections between written and spoken communication. One advantage of teaching both language arts and social studies on a middle school team was the seamless integration of content across curriculum lines. We could emphasize skills development normally associated with Language Arts and apply them to social studies content, and we could integrate social studies content and non-Western literature into the Language Arts course.
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1992-1996
Leesville Road Middle
Carnage Middle
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United States History
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During the spring of 1994, I was able to explore high school teaching by filling interim positions at two Wake County high schools, Cary Senior High and Millbrook Senior High. At Cary, I filled in for State Senator Linda Gunter, who was called into an emergency crime session by Governor James B. Hunt, Jr. The four sections of the course I taught examined the historical period from Reconstruction, through the Gilded Age and Populist Movement and the Spanish-American and First World Wars, to the early phases of the Great Depression. At Millbrook, I had the good fortune to serve as one-half of the Paideia team for 11th grade, whereby I was paired with an English teacher. Students in 11th Grade Paideia are challenged to make deep and insightful connections particularly between historical events and themes and literature of or about the times studied. Central to the course design was Adler's socratic seminar.
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Spring 1994
Cary Senior High
Millbrook Senior High
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Economic, Legal, & Political Systems
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The ninth grade social studies course in North Carolina deals with economics, government, and law, sort of a focused civics course. The state curriculum calls for half the course to explore economics and economic systems. The other half of the course is divided evenly between government (at national, state, and local levels) and law and law-related issues, especially juvenile justice.
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1991-1992
West Lee County Jr. High
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Reading in the Content Areas
Loudoun County, VA
Reading Comprehension Strategies
Appomattox County, VA
Lynchburg Center
Pittsylvania County, VA
Reading in the Content Areas
Loudoun County, VA
Northern Virginia Center
Reading Comprehension Strategies
Lynchburg Center
Reading in the Content Areas
Loudoun County, VA
Lynchburg Center
Northern Virginia Center
Reading Comprehension Strategies
Amherst County, VA
Reading in the Content Areas
Rockbridge County, VA
Loudoun County, VA
Northern Virginia Center [2 sections]
Reading Comprehension Strategies
Amherst County, VA
Reading in the Content Areas
Charlottesville City, VA
Shenandoah County, VA
Northern Virginia Center
Academic Uses of the World Wide Web
On-Grounds
Reading in the Content Areas
Loudoun County, VA
Northern Virginia Center
Rockbridge County, VA
Reading in the Content Areas
Loudoun County, VA
Portsmouth City, VA
Academic Uses of the World Wide Web
On-Grounds
Teaching Social Studies
On-Grounds/M.Ed. Students
Leesville Road Middle School
Raleigh, NC, 1994-1996
Social Studies & Language Arts
7th grade
Carnage GT Magnet Middle School
Raleigh, NC, 1992-1994
Social Studies & Language Arts
7th grade
Millbrook Senior High School
Raleigh, NC, Spring 1994
U.S. History - 11th
Cary Senior High School
Cary, NC, Spring 1994
U.S. History/Paideia - 11th
West Lee County Junior High
Sanford, NC, 1991-1992
Economic, Legal, & Political Systems
9th Grade
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Raymond C. Jones
PhD 2001
Curry School of Education
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4260
E jonesrc@wfu.edu
O 336.758.5507
F 336.758.4591
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