Send complete lesson plan by email 9:00 pm the night before any visit. A seating chart must also be available when I arrive.Time changed to 8:00 pm for second quarter.

Perform complete test analysis on all tests given after Jan. 15.

Sent test predictions the night before the test.

Send your item analysis within 48 hours of the end of the test. On the item analysis provide an "explanation/justification" for all "bad" problems. After the explanation explain how you "handled" the problem. Show all grade cut points and explain any changes ot the cut points. (All due with the first normal test analysis). Due starting with any test given after 2/5) => Provide a written remediation plan for each "bad" item, every student with a grade less than a C, and every "important concept" that a student missed.

First Month Check List and 30 Questions List

Read the California Framework and determine what routine they expect in the classroom.

Observe both cooperating teachers and the one other math teacher you observed that you felt provided the best instruction. In schools with multiple student teachers, do not go to the same 3rd teacher.

• Chart how they get students involved in the discussions.
• Chart how much time is spent with student-teacher interactions, teacher solo presentation, student solo work.
• Determine if it is a "safe" environment.

Ask your resident teachers what they use as a lesson plan?

• How do they determine what to teach and what to assign?
• How many examples do they do? Why?
• How much practice? Why?
• How much learning is left to the students? Why?
• How do they determine the success of a lesson?

 

Review the California Framework and Objectives for your long term placement. Pick one to work on a lesson plan in 275 on Wednesday.

Video 1 and Video 2

Ask your resident teachers why they give homework? What are they trying to accomplish? How does it fit in the grading? How do students get support?

Group read
• Read Framework on homework.
• Read planning and homework from Teaching secondary Mathematics – Techniques and Enrichment Units.
• Read two short method’s book sections. Teaching Mathematics for the 21st Century and Teaching Mathematics in Secondary and Middle School on planning and homework where it is embedded in the planning material.

All read

• PACT on planning.
• Understanding by Design – Chapter 1

Video 3

• Write a paper on homework. What is your policy? What that you read supports your view? If you can’t find support, go on line and look! This should be an update to the observation notebook.
• Start doing all lesson planning by our developing form!

Video 4

• Long, long term assignment – During one of the last two weeks in November you will be teaching a weeklong “teaching event”. This event should showcase your best planning, instruction and assessment. You are to start the planning this week. You have Thursday free to start this activity.
• Your first step is to determine what unit you will be working on between Nov. 19 and Nov. 30. The planning really wants to see procedural, conceptual, contextual, and problem solving where possible, so pick appropriate lessons if possible. 
• Once you have decided on the days and thus the topic, start looking for outside material that uses inquiry and includes the “c”’s from above as much as possible.
• Look for places in your lesson that color, diagrams, hands-on material and that sort of thing can be present. Where appropriate this will show up in your plans but certainly should show up in your instruction
• You are going to tape your class next week and evaluate yourself with respect to the instruction rubric. Work on those topics or items that appear to be weak between now and Nov. 19.
• Video 5 - Video your class this week and evaluate your instruction using the Instruction Rubric.
• *Your journal for the weeks of November 5 – 9 and 12 – 16 will be to write a reflective piece about how your class went the night before I come for my next visit.
• *Your journal for this Friday will be to reflect on what is working for your best student and what is challenging for one of your struggling students. Struggling means trying by the way.
• In either case you can send more than this if there is something you want to share.

Continue with your lesson preparation for your teaching event. Start thinking about what good instruction would look like in a video.

• Finish the PACT and turn it in on Thursday.
• Your journal for the week is to use the rubric and grade your PACT and then make a list of strengths and places to improve as seen in PACT. A strength will be a 3 or 4 and a needs to improve will be a 1.
• Observation notebook – After the reading and discussion on motivation, observe your own class, your short term class and at least one of your long term master teacher’s classes and discuss what you see each teacher doing that fits into the five findings in the paper.
• Read your share of the full document by the next 306/292 class.

12/6

12/11

Next Quarter

PACT dates

• PACT date decided (1/22)
• First draft PACT lesson plans - Exchange 1 (1/29)
• Second exchange (2/5)
• Final lesson plans due (2/12)
• PACT due 3/6

Paper on “How Students Learn Mathematics” that is grade and course appropriate for your placement. (3/11)

Development and implementation of a complete assessment plan.(2/19)

Update to assessment plan. (3/11)

Ask your master teachers how the final was constructed and what is (will be) done with the results. (Observation notebook).

For the 4 who have already given a final, make an item analysis of your students final results for any problem that will be prerequisite for this semester. This due 1/15 in written form. For those who have not given a final this assignment will be due the Tuesday after you start your new semester <= you will not be reminded of this!!!!!!!

Strategies discussion leaders..1/15 Section 1 - David/Leah; 1/22 Section 2 - Julianne/Bahman; 1/29 Section 3 - Alicia/Josh; 2/12 Section 4 - Jerry/William; 2/19 Section 5 - Heidi/Leon

various

• Look at the sample test results you were give tonight and do a "seat-of-the-pants" analysis,
• Look on "your" website {site you are presenting in 324}and see what you can find on radical functions.
• At least once this quarter use the "Convergence Mastery Strategy" or a hybrid in one class for one lesson. (open deadline). Write a reflective entry on how this worked in your class and send it within 24 hours of the class you use it with.

• Prepare your PACT lesson plans.
• At least once this quarter use the "Concept Attainment Strategy" to present a new concept (open deadline). Write a reflective entry on how this worked in your class and send it within 24 hours of the class you use it with.

For two days, record what “data” you are using as you teach your lessons. How did you collect it? How did you use it to inform your instruction? Which students did you change how you approached?

• Video Assignment - Video either class for one complete period. When you watch your video make a list of when you had an opportunity to use assessment data to determine a “next step” in your instruction. Record what you actually did. If you did use the opportunity, who was effected and how. Burn your write-up and video to a CD and bring to class for sharing on 2/19.
• For at least one lesson this week add an assessment controlled block to your plan. Huh?? Determine at least one point during the lesson where you can assess all of your students and then make a decision about the “next step” in your instruction. For example if you are lecturing, you might have a “white board” question to determine if you need more practice problems. If you do not, you might decide to go on but plan to talk to two or three students who had difficulties. Have this block recorded in your plan with the possible alternative paths listed. This does not include your openers and closers.

• Return to a discussion with both master teachers as to how they make a test.
• Journal for Friday – Reflect on your implementation of your assessment plan in Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday’s classes.
• Finish PACT write-up

3/4

2/22

3/6

• Ask both resident teachers why they picked the job they did and what advice they would give a student teacher who is in the beginning of the process.
• Last video of the quarter: Send a full lesson plan to me the night before some class before next Tuesday. Include in the plan alternative routes, based on an assessment block, through the lesson. Tape the complete class. Critique your use of assessment to monitor and drive the lesson. The video and reflection must be burned to the same CD. The CD is due at the beginning on class on March 11. This will replace this weeks journal.