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(1)Context
for Teaching and Learning. (Due Oct. 3).You will explain what you are
able to learn about the community, school, and your students. During the
first few weeks of your observation, you should be investigating the school
and community and getting to know your colleagues. You also will need
to consider your students’ prior knowledge of the topics and the
concepts you are expected to explore with them. Finally, you will need
to determine which of your students may have IEP’s or special needs.
(2) Learning Goals (The Big Ideas) for Unit and Rationale: (Due Oct. 10).
You will include a statement of and rationale for your overall goals (big
ideas) for a unit. You will explain how the goals you have developed grew
out of what you learned about the community, the school, and your students
through your investigation for part one of the project. I also will want
to see evidence that you have considered the curriculum guides for your
school, the needs of your students, and the professional standards you
have read and discussed with your special methods teachers.
(3) Objectives and Instructional Plan: (Due Nov. 7). Select a lesson or
series of lessons that you consider central to the unit. You will need
to state your learning objectives and explain how they fit within the
learning goals or big ideas of the unit. The lesson plan(s) will include
a description of each activity and a rationale explaining how that activity
moves students toward meeting the lesson(s)’ learning objectives.
You also will include the assessments you will use, including any criteria
and rubrics you have designed to measure how well students have met the
objectives you set for them.
(4) Lesson Implementation: (Due Nov. 14) You will describe how the lesson(s)
went-- what challenges you encountered in teaching the lesson, both anticipated
and unanticipated and how you adapted your teaching to meet those challenges.
You will videotape at least one of the lessons you have designated for
use on part 3 of this project. Here it also advisable to include cooperating
teacher’s comments or observational data collected during the lesson,
supervising teacher’s comments, teaching journal entry etc.
(5) Evaluation of the Assessment/Analysis of Student Learning: (Due Nov.
21). You will evaluate your assessment of how well students met the objectives
you describe in part three, including a sample of student responses and
your analysis of what their performance showed you about the effectiveness
of your teaching. If possible, you should also include any communication
you had with parents or guardians about the students’ performances.
(6) Reflection and Self-Evaluation: (Due December 5). You will evaluate
your teaching effectiveness and explain how you might alter or revise
the lesson(s) if and when you teach these concepts again. You may want
either to “gloss” the lesson plan(s) you submitted for part
3 of the project or to rewrite the plan(s) explaining why you have changed
what you changed. Also reflect on what larger implications your conclusions
have on your teaching in general. The completed project, revised and polished,
will be due on December 12th. I will return each piece to you at the next
seminar meeting with comments or suggestions for revision. You should
also solicit feedback from your cooperating teacher and your college supervisor.
Of course, you will be reflecting on your work as you teach, which will
likely lead to additional revision. As I mentioned above, I believe this
piece would make an excellent inclusion in your portfolio, and when you
submit it on December 12th, it should be “portfolio ready.”
That is, you should consider it published when you submit it.
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