Due May 9

     Report how you have used one of the strategies described in this weeks readings and how it went.

Due May 2

What are your thoughts about grouping children by ability?

Due April 25

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1. Select one of the web based strategies discussed in these articles or another you are familiar with and integrate it into one of your lessons.  Report how the lesson went.

        2. Sear2.  Search YouTube and post a video on our blog that you could use in an elementary classroom.

Due April 4

Try one of the assessment strategies in your classroom described in the readings and report how effective it was.

Due March 28

1. Reflect how expectations come into play in classroom management, in your teaching personality, and your relationship to parents.  If you have a student who you identify as having low expectations, do you think you can make a difference in your year with that student – why or why not?

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 2. Interview your teacher, another teacher in your building, or your principal about how to get parents involved with the class and school.

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Due March 21

Post your ideas for an interdisciplinary, project-based unit you might teach and why your ideas meet the two criteria of interdisciplinary and project-based learning.

Due March 21

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Due March 21

Post your ideas for an interdisciplinary, project-based unit you might teach and why your ideas meet the two criteria of interdisciplinary and project-based learning.

Due March 7

Describe your cooperating teacher’s management strategies.  Do you feel they are effective? Give examples of what your teacher does to recognize positive adherence and negative adherence.  What do you plan to do differently in your own class?

Due February 28

Describe an incident of working with a special child in your classroom.  What advice/guidance did you receive from your teacher or another school professional?

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Due February 14

1. Talk about the brain research you read in relation to your own learning experiences in reading and mathematics.   

2. Do you think an emphasis on learning styles or multiple intelligences, adds to a teacher’s understanding of his or her students.

 

Interest survey

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1. Po1. Post and then summarize the results of the interest survey you gave to your students.

        2. Post your initial thoughts on the Common Core Standards and Pennington et alsreaction to them.

Welcome to the blog for the spring '13 student teaching seminar. You are expected to contribute your ideas to the topics posted each week. Everyone appreciates reading the thoughts of their classmates as well as sharing their own. Please post your questions as well as your comments on your classmate’s posts.