SEC-490 Assignment
Explanations & Samples
The syllabus is not always easy to
understand so I created this page with explanations and samples. As a reminder, please refer to rubrics before
beginning your assignment, as all assignments are graded from the rubric.
If this webpage hasn’t addressed your question or concerns here, please call or
send me a message Thanks!
Week 1: Two assignments
The 1st
assignment is your official login with Professional Learning Network (PLN). The
intention of the PLN is to provide a virtual space for teacher candidates,
educational administration candidates, alumni, the cooperating teacher/mentor,
GCU faculty supervisors, and faculty to learn, collaborate, and connect in a
supportive environment.
You need to
create a login on the PLN website (see flyer below). It may take a couple of
days to be an approved member, so I suggest everyone be proactive to obtain a
login early. Once you have been approved please login and make a screenshot
showing your name. Save the document and submit as your assignment.
Every computer
is different, however, from my laptop: Login
into PLN>hold the fn & prntscrn
keys>open a Word document>click on the paste command>save the document>submit
the saved document into Loud Cloud
The 2nd assignment will be establishing your Professional Teaching Portfolio. A
professional portfolio is a purposeful collection of work that exhibits
efforts, progress, and achievement in multiple areas.
The finalization of
your portfolio will be due in week 14. For week 1 you only need to find and
create a portfolio site. The syllabus suggested several mediums, you
may prefer one of the following links to establish your portfolio:
Sample Portfolios
· A past student’s portfolio very
well done - https://www.portfoliogen.com/felicia-bd4369af/377841
· Another past student’s
portfolio well done - https://sites.google.com/site/ksolisportfolio/home
· I found this student’s teacher
portfolio online - https://sites.google.com/site/brentmbecker24/home
· Reason for a teacher portfolio
- https://www.best-job-interview.com/teacher-portfolio.html
Possible
Portfolio Programs
· Wix - https://www.wix.com/
· Weebly - https://www.weebly.com/
· Google Sites - https://sites.google.com/site/eportfolioapps/
· Portfolio Box - https://www.portfoliobox.net/
I highly recommend
you start working on week 2 assignments right away.
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Week 2: This week you have one assignment
Professional Dispositions Statement Assessment. Download the Professional Dispositions
Assessment from the class resources. Path>week 2 study materials
Personally, I think of a disposition as
your mission and value statement, similar to a school
or business. Leader’s need a mission statement, teachers are leaders, so you
need one for your work too. Teachers as leaders and need motivation and
rejuvenation to meet the demand of the profession. A professional mission
statement (disposition) can ground you, motivate you and help you remember why
you entered this profession. You may want to include statements that express
professional values, commitments, and ethics in order to promote authentic
learning.
I encourage you to search the Internet to
view some sample teaching statements to garner your own teaching philosophies. Download and
complete the “Professional Dispositions Assessment” to inform your statement.
In 250-500 words, write a reflection that addresses the following:
· Your
personal professional disposition statement.
· How
your self-assessment supports your professional dispositions statement.
· Reflect
on how you have grown in your professional dispositions throughout your Program
of Study, supported by specific examples.
· Steps
you will take to improve where necessary.
Disposition and Assessment Sample
If anyone experiences
problems with the template, e-docs or maybe you are
drawing a blank on this assignment, please don’t hesitate to contact me. Your
disposition and assessment will be added to your “Professional Teaching
Portfolio”
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Week 3: Learning Goals to Inform Instruction – Writing Standards- Based
Objectives
This week you will basically have three
assignments that will require your STEP Standard 1 (Part 1 & 2) & STEP
Standard 2.
STEP
Standard 1 has
two parts. The first part is to gather community demographic, school district
and classroom factors. The second part is to gather school
demographics, environment and academic factors. Understanding the learning
needs of students is critical when designing instruction that is differentiated
and geared to meet unique learning needs.
Geographic
Demographics - https://datausa.io/
District Demographics
- https://www.niche.com/
School Demographics
- https://www.greatschools.org/
A word of caution: I
take community, geographic and student data very serious. I want to see that
you are a data expert with sited sources with valid information. Rather than
water fountain gossip and feelings.
STEP
Standard 2 - Writing Standards-Based Objectives and the
Learning Goal. Complete STEP Standard 2
of the template that includes the following:
1. Your State Academic Content
Standards. Include both the standard code and the title.
2. Learning goal, is the overall big
ideas of what you expect students to learn from your unit plan.
3. Make sure the objectives are
measurable as shown in my announcements and CATs.
Week 4: Clinical Practice Evaluation 1
Your faculty
supervisor will complete your first of four evaluations. This may be face to
face or video format. Once your evaluation date has been set, your GCU faculty
supervisor will observe your teaching performance and submit a written report.
Please find the directions on obtaining your report on the link below. Once you
get your evaluation results save it on your computer and submit in the
assignment box.
I understand
that our class due dates don’t always coincide with your school, teacher or
supervisor’s schedule. If you are early or late, that is fine. The only time we
have to worry about due dates is our last week of
class. However, please know I am always available to work with you. Just be
sure to communicate with me.
Clinical Practice Evaluation Retrieval Guide
All of your evaluations will be included
in your “Professional Teaching Portfolio”. I encourage you to work on your week
7 assignments.
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Week 5: Resume
Professional Résumé is important because many of
you may be asked for your resume so now is the time to pull it together. Your
resume needs to highlight your education, certification, and professional
experience.
It’s best to develop a
statement or objective to describe yourself and how you stand out from other
candidates. Be sure to view the weekly announcements so you can use the
resources provided.
At
a minimum, include the following:
- Name and contact
information: Full name, address, phone number, email address
- Statement or
Objective
- Education (most
current to latest)
- Certifications
- Work Experience
(most current to latest)
- Additional Skills
- Professional Teaching Portfolio
Sample Resume with Little Experience
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Week 6: Add the updated classroom management to your portfolio
Establishing a classroom management philosophy
is a crucial aspect of teaching. Your philosophy will guide you in establishing
procedures, routines, and behavior expectations in order to create a learning
environment that engages students, achieves instructional goals, and meets the
diverse needs of students.
Your assignment is to revise your classroom
management philosophy based on
the demographics of your student teaching placement and what you have learned
throughout your program. Post the revised classroom management philosophy in
your professional portfolio.
For this week’s
discussion question, summarize your plan and describe the changes you made to
make the plan more appropriate for your current students. I encourage you to
refer to research to substantiate your claims. I
recommend reading the two references below to develop your own style. Keep what
you like and design your own management philosophy.
Marzano, R. J.,
Pickering, D. J., & Pollock, J. E. (2001). Classroom
instruction that works: Research-based strategies for increasing student
achievement. Alexandria, VA: Association of Supervision and
Curriculum Development.
Wong, H. & Wong, R.
(2014). The classroom management book. Mountain View, CA:
Harry K. Wong Publications.
HINT: While in your
portfolio I encourage you to fine tune your portfolio. In addition, work on
week 7 assignments
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Week 7: Analyzing Assessment Data and Student Results
There
are 3 assignments this week (STEP Standard 3-5).
·
Assessment and Data
Literacy
·
Unit and Lesson planning
·
Implementation of
Instructional Unit: Create a video using any recording device. Choose one of
the lesson activities to video record a 5-10 minute
segment that you can review and reflect on your teaching. Have your cooperating
teacher/mentor review the recording and provide feedback, if possible.
STEP
Standard 3 -
Assessment and Data Literacy Pre- and post-assessments used to assess the
learning that takes place from participating in a learning activity. The
pre-assessment is given to students before instruction, in order to determine
their prior knowledge of the topic, or inaccurate knowledge.
STEP Standard 4 – Unit and Lesson Planning. Your unit of instruction must align
to your state content standards. Be sure to include technology integration and
demonstrate how you will differentiate your lessons to meet the needs of
individual students.
I understand that time schedules don’t always
coincide with this class. The main idea is that you will be taking over the
classes soon and will need a unit plan which is what we are working on
together. You want to also work with the cooperating teacher on your unit plan.
Step Standard 5 – In STEP Standard 3 & 4 you implemented and
analyzed the pre-assessment and implemented all lesson activities. Choose one
of the lesson activities to video record a 5-10-minute segment. Have your
cooperating teacher/mentor review the recording to provide feedback.
On
top of everything else you need to prepare for your 2nd evaluation
due next week.
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Week 8: STEP Standard 6 – Analysis of Student Learning
After you have implemented each lesson in the unit, as well as
completed the post-assessment it is important to analyze the results of the post-assessment
and determine student learning. Review your data and whether there is a student
or group of students who have not mastered the objectives and discuss what you
will do to further develop student’s knowledge and skills.
After students complete the post-assessment, use the data to complete
the tables in STEP Standard 6. Respond to the questions in Standard 6 based on
the assessment results.
Submit your 2nd Evaluation. Again,
I understand our class can not always coordinate with
your schedule or the faculty supervisor. If I close the assignment box for your
evaluation, please let me know when you are ready. I will gladly open the
assignment box so you can submit.
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Week 9: Analysis
and Reflection to Improve Planning and Practice
STEP Standard 7 - Reflective practice is crucial in education and becomes the foundation for ongoing growth and development as a professional. Once you have implemented the lessons within your unit, you should reflect on how the instructional practices influenced the learning outcomes. The assessment data from week 7 provides tangible evidence that you can use to tie outcomes back to instruction.
After analyzing and reflecting on your experiences developing and
delivering your instructional unit, complete STEP Standard 7. In the template,
list three short-term goals to improve specific areas of your teaching practice
based on the unit of instruction, as well as your plan to reach each short-term
goal.
This assignment uses a
rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar
with the expectations for successful completion.
Include your "STEP
Template" in your Professional Teaching Portfolio? under the section
"Instruction/Classroom Management."
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Week 10: Assessment
and Data Literacy – Using Assessment to Engage Students
Easy week, you just need to post in the DQ. In the
meantime, work on the preparation for your 3rd evaluation.
Week 11: 3rd
Evaluation
Your evaluations are based on the InTASC
Standards. Your GCU faculty supervisor will observe your teaching performance
and complete the Clinical Practice Evaluation 3. For this assignment, you will
submit the completed Clinical Practice Evaluation 3 in our class assignment
box. The final score on your evaluation will determine your total points for
this assignment.
All of your evaluations need to be
included in your “Professional Teaching Portfolio” under the section “Clinical
Practice (Student Teaching) Evaluations”.
Week 12: Personal Teaching
Philosophy (video reflection)
Your
Personal Teaching Philosophy – Video Reflection is crucial in education and
becomes the foundation for ongoing growth and development as a professional. By
this phase in the student teaching experience, you have analyzed how your
teaching performance and practice affects student learning. You now have the opportunity to reflect on how you plan to
continue growing in your practice and how to utilize school/district, academic,
and personal resources to help you continue to grow as a professional educator.
For this assignment,
you will create a 2-3 minute video of
yourself describing your role as a teacher candidate who embodies the College
of Education’s philosophy to learn, lead, and serve.
In the video,
include the following:
1.
How your teaching philosophy has
developed and grown throughout student teaching.
2.
How technology can be used to create
better learning opportunities for all students.
3.
How you will implement the Christian worldview
values of compassion, promoting human flourishing, and behaving legally and
ethically in your future classroom. (Feel free to
4.
Remember, video and audio
quality is important and should be taken
into consideration.
Use
one of the following programs to upload your video file:
OneDrive – Through you GCU Outlook email account.
YouTube
- https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/57407?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
Vimeo
- https://vimeo.com/join (you need to
create an account. Be proactive and start working on this now).
Loom
- https://www.useloom.com/login?redirect_after=%2Fmy-videos
Save the video as
“Unlisted” if you prefer, however, if you save it as “private”, I will not be
able to access it. Test your link out prior to sending it to me. Send it
to a friend to make sure it works for someone besides you.
·
Paste your URL on your reflection document.
·
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
·
Rest assured; this is your last video for this class.
Submit the video URL to the LMS
in a word document.
This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to
beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for
successful completion.
Include the video “Professional
Teaching Portfolio” under the section "Teaching Resume and
Statements."
Week 13: Model Code of Ethics Quiz
I
do not see the quiz, so I am not able to guide you. However, I am sure the
questions come from http://www.nasdtec.net/default.asp?page=MCEE_Doc
I find doing a quick find search on this
type of quiz is helpful. However, be sure to read for detail. Many times, the
questions can be tricky due to the wording. Good Luck to everyone.
Week 14: Professional Teaching
Portfolio
Throughout this course, you have created and added artifacts
to a professional portfolio. I want to see an assortment of artifacts that
represent a selection of what you believe is your best work to present to
potential employers.
Once you complete all of the
elements of your portfolio, submit the URL to the LMS in a word document. Be
sure to review the rubric that will include the following:
·
Introduction
·
Instruction/Classroom Management
·
Teaching Resume and Statements (please
don’t include your address and phone number)
·
Clinical Practice (Student Teaching)
Evaluations
·
Sample Artifacts
In the meantime, prepare for your 4th
evaluation. This one is much more comprehensive than the previous evaluations.
Mainly because your content area standards are included.
Week 15: 4th
Evaluation
If you want to see your
content area standards, please let me know. I have many content area standards
saved separately.
Timeliness is a little
tricky at the end of our class. If your 4th evaluation will not be
available by the end of class I have to put a zero in the gradebook which will
lower your grade tremendously. Don’t fret, you can email the evaluation to me
and I will change your points.
Everyone’s situation is
different. If your evaluation will be more than a week late, please communicate
with me privately. We will do a work around together.
|
Program |
|
|
Specialized
Professional Associations (SPA) |
Pages |
|
Dance |
|
NASD |
National Association of
Schools of Dance |
18-23 |
|
Early Childhood |
|
NAEYC |
National Associations for
the Education of Young Children |
24-27 |
|
Early Childhood and Early
Childhood Special Education |
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NAEYC CEC |
National Association for
the Education of Young Children Council for Exceptional
Children |
24-27 28-31 |
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Elementary |
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ACEI |
Association of Childhood
Education International |
32-39 |
|
Elementary (ESL Emphasis) |
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ACEI TESOL |
Association of Childhood
Education International Teachers of English to
Speakers of Other Languages |
32-39 40-45 |
|
Elementary and Special
Education |
|
ACEI CEC |
Association of Childhood
Education International Council for Exceptional
Children |
32-39 28-31 |
|
Music |
|
NASM |
National Association of
Schools of Music |
46-53 |
|
Secondary-Business |
|
NBEA |
National Business Education
Association |
54-60 |
|
Secondary-English |
|
NCTE |
National Council of
Teachers of English |
61-62 |
|
Secondary-History |
|
NCSS |
National Council of Social
Studies |
63-67 |
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Secondary-Math |
|
NCTM |
National Council of Teachers
of Mathematics |
68-75 |
|
Secondary-Physical
Education |
|
SHAPE |
Society of Health and
Physical Educators- America |
76-78 |
|
Secondary- Science |
|
NSTA |
National Science Teachers
Association |
79-83 |
|
Special Education |
|
CEC |
Council for Exceptional
Children |
28-31 |
|
Theater |
|
NAST |
National Association of
Schools of Theatre |
84-87 |
Thank you for a wonderful journey! Your
self-learning starts from here! "It is good to have an end to
journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end." --Ursula
K. LeGuin
Updated 8/29/2020
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