Throughout the quarter you will have assignments that help you to test and get feedback on your evolving skill and understandings. These assignments are listed below under the specific topic strands. There are also assignments where you will synthesize, apply and show what you’ve learned this quarter. These performance assessments are summarized here. Be sure to refer to the handouts for complete explanations of the assignment.
- Learning about Student thinking (draft due Wednesday, November 28th;; final due Saturday, December 1st) You will use your knowledge of students’ common errors and misconceptions to design and carry out clinical interviews of students. These interviews will help you know students’ knowledge and reasoning about the particular concept or set of skills. The interviews will also give you the opportunity to develop important questioning and interviewing skills that you can effectively use throughout your teaching career. Your final report will include an interview with a students, the rationale for the interview, the results and video clips to make claims about what the student knows and understands.
- Advice to Yourself as a New Teacher: An Emerging Educational Philosophy (drafts due Monday weeks 6 & 7 for peer review; paper due Monday, Nov 26th week 8). The purpose of this synthesis essay is for you to demonstrate your current understanding of the learning process in a way that’s informed by the professional literature. As part of this essay you will use knowledge of learning processes to identify principles and guidelines for structuring a learning opportunity. You will use examples from your field experience to illustrate how these principles and guidelines might look in practice. You will also Identify and explain some of the barriers to learning (i.e. reasons why learning isn’t always accessible) and specific ways you could adapt your instruction to make the learning more accessible.
- Advancement to Candidacy Portfolio (Monday week 10)