+ EOP Pan African Learning Community 2007 Sacramento State Jerry Blake, Freshmen Seminar Instructor Tina Jordan, Reading and Writer Instructor Toni Tinker, 39B Tutorial Instructor Boatamo Mosupyoe PH.D, Pan African Studies

+ Pan African Learning Community Some of the Goals for the Learning Community Demonstrate an understanding of how Pan Africanism is a movement of solidarity among the nations of African. Demonstrate an understanding of how the Pan African experience constitutes a specific ideology and how it interacts with other ideologies within the United States and throughout the world. Demonstrate an understand of how Africa’s historical and contemporary events affect people with a common cause and shared struggles globally.

+ What is the Evidence Process? A model for teachers to assess their instructional practice that is grounded in specific artifacts of learning and teaching that comes directly from the classroom--samples of student work, observations of students at work, and teacher created materials. These artifacts make student learning and how teaching supports that learning more visible through systematic assessment.

+ The purpose of the protocol is to provide opportunities for teachers to examine and discuss pieces of student work in a non-judgmental structured conversation.

+ Protocol Principles and Outcomes Respectful focus on student work Deliberate steps in conversation Deep analytical thinking and reflections of work Visualize student understanding (with evidence) Systematic accountability Reflective about the teaching process

+ Protocol Steps in Evaluating Integrative Learning I. Getting Acquainted — General Assessment Step 1 : Introducing the work Step 2: Clarifying specific goal Step 3: Looking at the work Step 4: Pointing out aspects of the work and withholding judgment Step 5: Valuing the work Step 6: Raising questions to make thinking visible

+ Protocol Steps in Evaluating Integrative Learning II. Zooming in—Target Assessment Step 7: Discerning the purpose of the work Step 8: Revealing disciplinary grounding Step 9: Revealing Integration Step 10: Assessing thoughtfulness

+ Protocol Steps in Evaluating Integrative Learning III. Stepping Back Step 11: Hearing from presenting teacher Step 12: Implications for teaching Step 13: Reflecting on protocol

+ Assignment for Learning Community Apartheid in America Most people fail to understand the American educational system is relatively similar to the Bantu structure of education that plagued South Africa for so many years. This destructive Apartheid system was designed to be sufficient enough to allow African students to be only employed in low paying jobs. Students of color were not offered the same educational opportunities as white South African students from affluent families. The structure was inferior and racist and produced inadequately prepared students. Likewise in the United States, African-American and Latino students lack the skills necessary to function productively in society because of institutionalized racism. For African Americans, students are behind in their skill levels in reading and writing compared to white students. They cannot compete in the workforce today. We should not blame parents as Bill Cosby says. Instead we should place the blame on the racist educational system in America. We need to wake up to the reality that our educational system is Apartheid all over again. Daniel Adam, Principal of Elk Hill High School Explain Adam’s position in your own words and discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with at least two of his arguments. Support your position, providing reasons and examples from your own experience, observations or reading. Be sure to refer to at least two of the readings you were given to prepare for the assignment. Also include supporting ideas, explanation and/ or quotations about the Apartheid system from your class text Soweto Explodes.

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