525/535 meeting 8/24/09

525/535 meeting 8/24/09

Course content, TPAs, & more - Here are notes to start our conversations. Be sure to add anything I missed.

Start blogging as you develop your syllabus, have an idea, have a question, etc.

Key question: How do we establish deep, conceptual understandings of concepts and not be redundant in Advanced Methods, student teaching seminars, and TPA seminars?

TPA 3	TPA 4
Assessment Focus students Modifications	Culmination Lesson plan Assessment Differentiation Focus students Modifications

Beyond the TPA:
§ Curriculum development
§ Who we are as educators
§ Who are our students?
§ The culture of the classroom
§ Wiggins & McTighe Understanding by Design
§ Long-range planning, Unit planning
§ The Unit Plan – what are the requirements for our teacher candidates? How long, how much content, how approached, how to make it work with cooperating teachers?
§ Currently, we require 8-15 lessons, should be taught as part of 4-week takeover
§ CLU lesson plan (go to CLU website and follow these steps to get electronic version: SOE, Resources, Student Resources, Teacher Preparation, Teacher Preparation Program Forms)– lengthy, a new, revised one is implemented this semester (it was introduced to our teacher candidates last semester in Methods, so your 525/535 students have prior/more knowledge the you the instructor)
§ Creating these CLU format lessons is not expected for all 8-15 lessons, some instructors have required 3 be written
§ Challenge our students to develop their own lesson plan format as a class activity
Other activities/topics for our classes:
how to grade
how to grade essays
language/literacy skills
communicative competence
5 c's of foreign language teaching
demonstrations
labs
ASSESSMENT:
knowing the assessment before planning and teaching
how to assess students based on their strengths - differentiating assessment
collect student work samples, evaluate outcomes, determining alternatives
terms: validity, reliability, diagnostic, formative, summative, formal, teacher-made
Pretest our teacher candidates about what they know/don't know
rubrics
invvolving students in self-assessment
standardized test preparation
study skills

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