Assignments and Grading
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Confidentiality
Note
Much of your work involves children. I want us to get used to not using the actual names of your children either in class or in our writings. Use substitute names in our EdEl 188 class. In writings, use "girl 1, girl 2" or another substitute such as initials. Vermont is a very small place. Just assume, everyone knows. Please make sure "girl 1" in the Classroom Structures assignment is the same "girl 1" in the Complex Instruction assignment. The best way of doing this is to take a class list and assign numbers next to the names and just use this as your reference point for identifying children in your work across the semester. Thanks, Charlie |
Weekly Assignments This
course endeavors to teach you a group of skill sets that will amplify
your capacity to work successfully with an range of management
challenges. Our range of activity will extend your knowledge
about working with student strengths, identifying why children
misbehave and doing something about it, designing curriculum that can
be surprisingly inclusive, understanding how the social and academic
structures work in your classroom to impact certain children for good
and for bad, and working towards implementing effective and empowering
groupwork. Each week you will have something to do for our next
class. Sometimes it will be an assignment to carry out in the
classroom, sometimes it will be an entry on the webct discussion board,
sometimes both. It is expected this work will be competed as part
of your responsibilities for this course syllabus and your student
teaching.
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assess and analyze the interaction of the social and academic structures on the learning of certain students - how do they impact each other - how does their impact influence the Social Darwinism of your classroom - embed sociometric analysis questions in an interest questionnaire to determine the status order of children in your classroom - show where you can manipulate your academic structures to affect the impact of the social structure on your children's academic progress - determine which instructional levers are your strength - give examples of how you might highten achievement in your classroom for children of concern by creating learning situations of more equal status |
Complex Instruction Assignment create a situation of readiness for a
complex
instruction rotation by establishing collaborative norms in your
classroom,
conducting 4-6 skillbuilders, teach children how to perform basic group processing roles, teach
several
cooperative skills - design at least three rich learning tasks
identifying
the necessary multiple abilities to carry out the task - run the tasks
simultaneously, assign competence, conduct and analyze pre/post
measures
of content acquisition - track academic content acquisition of four identified children institute collaborative norms embed in interdisciplinary unit if
possible/useful/necessary
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Professional Portfolio Assignment
Since this website was first
designed, the form of the Professional Portfolio has shifted from a
large three ring binder to an web-based document. The faculty of
the Elementary Education Program have worked with the TaskStream
(TS) to provide this opportunity. All the portfolio work we will
do in this course will occur in the taskstream environment, once you
have registered as a TS user. Keep in mind, the best portfolios
are the ones that are able to connect what you know to what you are
able to do as a practicing professional. One of our tasks in the
course will be to teach you have to write a good caption, and urge you to keep thinking about the theoretical grounding
of your everyday classroom practice. This is probably the most
challenging multi-tasking you'll be doing this semester and it will be
the most rewarding.
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Weighting of Assignments Classroom
Structures Assignment (rubric)
25% of final grade
Complex Instruction Assignment (rubric) 25% of final grade Preparation of Professional Portfolio Through Upload (rubric) 25% of final grade Weekly Assignments, classroom work and discussion board 25% of final grade |