Conceptual Design and Model Teacher Prep

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Conceptual Design and ModelTeacher Prep

• Andre Murphy
• Chris Harmon
• Jackie Hundley

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Object/Action Analysis

• The Teacher Prep website provides access to a
  variety of online resources for Alabama Teachers.
  The site provides current and prospective
  Alabama teachers with information on initial
  teacher certification, continuing education,
  annual competency requirements, and tools
  designed to help with assisting students pass
  troublesome areas of the Alabama High School Exit
  Exam. Links provided on the Teacher
  Certification page include Alabama State
  Department of Education resources and information
  on the Praxis exam as well as the Alabama
  Prospective Teacher Testing Program. Also on the
  Teacher Certification page is the latest news
  about the future annual competency requirements
  that Alabama teachers will have to adhere to in
  order to keep their licenses current. The
  Continuing Education links provide information
  for training and courses for teachers,
  administrators and professional organizations.
  Teaching Aids are linked to sources for lesson
  plans and other classroom support material for
  various subjects.

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Lexicon

• ALSDE Alabama State Department of Education
• Teacher Certification is an all-inclusive
  reference to requirements for initial
  certification, and renewal of career/technical
  certificates.
• CEU Continuing Education Units
• Continuing Education refers to information
  dealing with in class and online professional
  development for teachers, administrators, and
  professional organizations
• Praxis The Praxis series of tests are
  professional assessments for beginning teachers.
  They are a set of rigorous and carefully
  validated assessments that provides accurate,
  reliable information for use by state education
  agencies in making licensing decisions.
• APTTP Alabama Prospective Teacher Testing
  Program. The APTTP consists of basic skills
  assessments from the ACT WorkKeys System in
  Applied Mathematics, Reading for Information, and
  Writing.

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Scenario 1

• Sally Price has just moved to the United States
  from England. She has a degree in education as
  well as a teacher certification obtained while in
  England. Sally desires to obtain a license to
  teach in Alabama and performs a Google search on
  teacher resources in Alabama. She comes across
  the Teach Alabama website and is excited to find
  all the information she needs there. She reads
  the welcome page to ascertain the goal of the
  website and sees a tab along the menubar at the
  top of the screen entitled Certification. When
  she hovers over it, she notices two items appear
  on a drop down menu from that tab. She clicks on
  the main Certification link. She notices the
  same two drop down links that were on the drop
  down menu are at the bottom of the page. She
  reads the Teacher Certification information on
  the page and learns about the Alabama Prospective
  Teacher Testing Program. She clicks on the link
  where she is taken to the APTTP page on the
  Alabama State Department of Educations website.
  She reads all about it and learns what she must
  do to obtain her certification to teach in
  Alabama.

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Scenario 2

• James Butler is a teacher at a school in
  Talapoosa County in Alabama. He is discouraged
  at the most recent batch of test scores that his
  10th and 11th grade students achieved on the
  Alabama High School Exit Exam in Science. He
  does a search on Vivisimo.com for Alabama exit
  exam teaching materials and comes across the
  Teach Alabama website. He reads the welcome page
  and sees what the site is about. He then takes a
  look at the Teaching Aids tab at the top of the
  screen. He sees four subject area items drop
  down from a menu when hovering over the link. He
  decides to go to the main Teaching Aids page and
  reads the narrative there about the areas in
  which tools to help teachers are offered. He
  selects the Science link and from there clicks on
  the Education World link and is taken to their
  site. The biggest area of concern for his
  students is Physical Science and he sees the link
  on that page with tools in that area. Once he
  finds what he needs to help his students, he goes
  back to the Teach Alabama site and clicks on the
  Contact Us tab. He then leaves a comment about
  how useful the Teach Alabama site was in helping
  him find teaching materials.

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Welcome Page
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Welcome Page
Drop Down Menu
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Teacher Certification Page
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Alabama Teacher Certification Resources
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Praxis Resources
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Praxis Resources
Drop Down Menu
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Continuing Education
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Continuing Education Teachers
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Continuing Education Administrators
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Continuing Education Professional Organizations
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Continuing Education Professional Organizations
Drop Down Menu
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Teaching Aids
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Teaching Aids General
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Teaching Aids Mathematics
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Teaching Aids Science
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Teaching Aids Reading
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Calendar
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