Assignments


 * Please submit the following to Andrea and Steph via e-mail by Monday, November 21, 2011 at 4:00 p.m.: **

Please send us questions that you have pertaining to fulfilling the related responsibility of ongoing professional development. This may include questions about your professional development plan and process, graduate programs, etc.


 * Please remember the following assignments are due by the beginning of class December 1, 2011: **

1.) Video Reflection Response - Please respond to the following prompt using the Video Reflection Response Rubric as a guide. E-mail your Video Reflection Response to Andrea and Steph.

// Reflect on the learning environment during your videotaped lesson and what we have discussed about student centered learning environments. Explain at least two strategies that were demonstrated in your videotaped lesson, or that can be incorporated in your classroom to ensure a student-centered learning community. //

2.) Make sure your application class pieces are up to date with the lesson you have been creating to share with a partner on December 1, 2011:

// Group Indicators // // Create Concepts based on grouping // // Create Is about statement // // Create student self test questions // // Make a KUDO frames for indicators // // Design lesson plan // // Embed learning structures // // Develop high level questions (and scaffolding) to embed into your lesson plan // // Plan for data points that can be used to assess understandings // // Incorporate differentiation into your plan // // Consider student-centered aspects of your lesson //

**Suggestion:**

Begin/continue work on your final product ** due by 11:59 p.m. on December 8, 2011 **.

__Looking Ahead__: Please be thinking of questions that you have pertaining to fulfilling the related responsibility of ongoing professional development. This may include questions about your professional development plan and process, graduate programs, etc.

Please remember the following assignments are due by the beginning of class November 17, 2011:

1.) Video Reflection Response - Please respond to the following prompt using the Video Reflection Response Rubric as a guide. E-mail your Video Reflection Response to Andrea and Steph.

// Analyze the extent of differentiation used in your lesson. Explain the level of differentiation that was utilized. Reflect on how differentiation could have been more prevalent during the lesson. Reflect on any changes you may make in the future. //

2.) Discussion Response - Please respond to the following prompt using the Discussion Response Rubric as a guide. E-mail your Discussion Response to Andrea and Steph.

//Explain the principles of Universal Design for Learning and how they are applied to support differentiation.//

Please remember the following assignments are due over the next three weeks:

Due November 10, 2011:

1.) Discussion Response - Please respond to the following prompt using the Discussion Response Rubric as a guide. E-mail your Discussion Response to Andrea and Steph.

// How do you currently use data analysis to inform your instruction? Reflecting on your current practices are there any goals in the area of data analysis to be put on your path forward? //

Due November 17, 2011:

1.) Video Reflection Response - Please respond to the following prompt using the Video Reflection Response Rubric as a guide. E-mail your Video Reflection Response to Andrea and Steph.

// Analyze the extent of differentiation used in your lesson. Explain the level of differentiation that was utilized. Reflect on how differentiation could have been more prevalent during the lesson. Reflect on any changes you may make in the future. //

Please remember the following assignments are due by October 27, 2011:

1.) Video Reflection Response - Please respond to the following prompt using the Video Reflection Response Rubric as a guide. E-mail your Video Reflection Response to Andrea and Steph.

// Analyze the levels of questions asked in your lesson by completing the question chart that can be downloaded below. In your response, explain the levels of questioning that were utilized. Reflect on the level of rigor for the questions; were they appropriately rigorous? Reflect on any changes you may make in the future. //



2.) Please read the following materials and view the video link below:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpy6rDnXNbs

Please remember the following assignments are due by October 20, 2011:

1.) Discussion Response - Please respond to the following prompt using the Discussion Response Rubric as a guide. E-mail your Discussion Response to Andrea and Steph.

// Develop a high level question that could be used in an upcoming lesson. Explain the level of cognitive demand from Bloom's Taxonomy that the question requires. What scaffolded questions would support students to reach the higher level of thinking? //

Begin to consider your final project format and content.
 * Suggestions: **

Make sure your application class pieces are up to date: // Group Indicators // // Create Concepts based on grouping // // Create Is about statement // // Create student self test questions // // Make a KUDO frames for indicators // // Design lesson plan // // Embed learning structures // // Develop high level questions (and scaffolding) to embed into your lesson plan //

**Please remember the following assignments are due by October 13, 2011:**

1.) Video Reflection - Please review the video of your teaching and respond to the following prompt using the Video Reflection Rubric as a guide. E-mail your Video Reflection to Andrea and Steph.

//How did you/would you use the KUDos process in planning for your videotaped lesson?//

2.) Discussion Response - Please respond to the following prompt using the Discussion Response Rubric as a guide. E-mail your Discussion Response to Andrea and Steph.

//Choose two of the learning structures that we have discussed. How have you/could you implement them into your classroom? How was/would student engagement be impacted?//

3.) Watch the following videos about assessment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvHI_mJr8Rc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C10oV0k3rE&feature=related

4.) Read the following article about assessment.

Other reminders: //*Remember to bring a class set of data to class for Session #4 on October 13, 2011 reflecting Assessment OF Learning.//

**Please remember the following assignments are due by October 6, 2011:**

1.) Discussion Response - Please respond to the following prompt using the Discussion Response Rubric as a guide. E-mail your Discussion Response to Andrea and Steph.

// A pre-service teacher is placed in your school and asks whether or not backmapping is important. Take a position and justify it in your discussion response. //

2.) Review the High Level Questioning Background Information below:



Here is a FRAME Routine in the area of High Level Questioning to review:



You might also want to check out the link below regarding Bloom's Taxonomy and the links that it sends you to in order to extend your background knowledge:

[|Bloom's Taxonomy]

// **Other Reminders:** //

// *Remember to bring curriculum/planning materials along with the concept work and questions you created during Session #2 to our next session on October 6, 2011. //

// *Create your DVD due at class October 6, 2011. //

**Please remember the following assignments are due by September 29, 2011:**

1.) Big Four Survey - Please complete this and e-mail to Andrea and Steph



2.) Discussion Response - Please respond to the following prompt using the Discussion Response Rubric as a guide. E-mail your Discussion Response to Andrea and Steph.

// Select one of the best practices listed below that was used in today’s session. In a discussion response, explain how you implement or could implement that practice into your classroom. //

// Mission Writing Class Builder // // L to J I Do, We Do, You Do // // Unit Organizer //

3.) Check out the following link reviewing basic "netiquette" practices:

[|Netiquette Link]

4.) View this podcast in preparation for our class on September 29, 2011:

media type="file" key="KUDO_Overview.m4a" width="300" height="300"

5.) Review the information on Learning Structures that can be found on pages 21 - 41 on the following link:

[|Learning Structures]

// **Other Reminders:** //

// *Remember to bring curriculum/planning materials to our next session on September 29, 2011. Consider // // choosing something that you will be teaching closer to late November. //

// *Make plans to create your DVD due at class October 6, 2011. //

**Please remember the following assignments are due by September 22, 2011:**

1.) Read the background information about L to J.