Acute assessment unit

According to Standard 5.1 candidates will be able to conduct needs assessments to determine school-wide, faculty, grade-level, and subject area strengths and weaknesses to inform the content and delivery of technology-based professional learning programs. In the ITEC 7460 Professional Learning and Technology Innovation course, I was able to demonstrate this by completing an Individual Teacher Technology Assessment using Knight’s Partnership Approach. Using a Loti Questionnaire, an Innovation…

• include a minimum of 5 'tips' for good goal writing • include a minimum of 2 things to avoid for good goal writing • essentially write at least 5 'do's' and 2 'don'ts' regarding writing IEP goals. Be clear, be accurate, be confident. Think about what needs to be included in a good goal for it to be a legal and ethical IEP, think about what 'tests' you can apply to make sure the goal is valid, think about what needs to be included for the goal to be meaningful. This can be presented in…

curriculum and assessments. Background The author conducted an in-person interview with Morgan Sedlacek, who works with Allen ISD as a first-grade teacher in a general education classroom.…

1. Activity Title Alphabet Caterpillar 2. Curriculum are/Development Domain Language 3. Number of Children/Age and number of adults One student to one teacher/ Four to five years old 4. Material Needed Construction paper, scissors, and markers 5. Location and setup of activity Writing center 6. Preparation • Draw circles on any color construction paper • Cut out the circles • Choose any color and write one alphabet letter on each circle 7. Specific behavioral objective Children will…

“The purpose of education is the idea that what matters most is academic achievement in a small number of curricular domains, particularly language, science and mathematics.” (Biesta, 2010). His view of education has been seen recently with the emphasis placed on the English Baccalaureate within the UK, meaning that these three subjects are seen as the core of the national curriculum, and religious studies as a humanity subject has been deemed irrelevant in comparison. However the School…

CORNERSTONE OVERVIEW PRIOR KNOWLEDGE (Before the Unit) Students will require an understanding of the concepts and terminology used in FORM ANALYSIS, and the Notation of DYNAMICS. They will also benefit from prior experience using the Close Study Process. Prior to performing the self-evaluation task students should be led through the steps in completing the Self-Evaluation Form for Recordings. PLACEMENT WITHIN THE UNIT Before: Prior to starting this Cornerstone, students will…

equations on paper or dry erase board. Materials: Pencil, large white piece of paper folded in half, equation assessment activity sheet, book that is read at the beginning of the lesson, animals placed all around the classroom in groups under ten for students to add. Assessment: • Formative: Students will be assessed this way through all group work on equations (observational assessments) and the Zoo Animal equations that they created…

Standard base IEP’s allows teachers, students and parents to look at the student’s current progress verse traditional when you focus on the student’s strengths and challenges. Standard Base IEP’s allows for direction, which is centralized by points of achievement. This offers the IEP team a visual path to what the student may need to work on and modes of assistance that can be offered. Traditional IEP’s were broader and did not centralize the needs of the students. It simply addressed all…

At the Mother Lode Union School District in Placerville, California, student achievement is a primary focus as laid out in the school district’s mission statement. “The Mission of the Mother Lode Union School District is the successful education of every student” (1), which can be quite a task, made more achievable through the district’s goals and objective’s priority #1. Priority #1 notes a “well-rounded student” when it states, “We are dedicated to advancing each student’s academic…

Elaborative rehearsal involves processing information at deeper levels by making a connection between the object or information to be remembered and something a person already remembers. Research has clearly demonstrated the elaborative rehear transfers much more information from the short-term store to the long-term store, produces more stable (more enduring) long-term memories and more accessible (easier to retrieve) long-term memories. Elaborative rehearsal, however, can be performed at a…