Assessment of Professional Teaching Workshop:

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Assessment of Professional Teaching Workshop

• Constructed Response
• Dr. Kathleen McInerney
• Department of English and Speech
• January 28 and February 4, 2004

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Tips for Success on the Writing Portion of the
APT(Constructed Response)

• Familiarize yourself with the test
• Analyze what is being asked and for whom you
  are writing
• Study the information/knowledge being tested
• Practice answering test questions
• Evaluate your answers

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General Test Preparation

• Use the study guide available at
  http//www.icts.nesinc.com
• Understand the objectives
• Create a study plan with a time schedule
• Determine your areas of strength and weakness
• Target weak areas
• Practice
• Evaluate

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Study Tools

• ELCF 353 texts and class notes
• Special education texts and class notes
• Reading class texts and class notes
• Educational computing texts and class notes
• Content area methods texts and class notes

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Constructed Response

• 20 of test
• Total test time allowed Five hours (you
  determine how to allocate those five hours)
• Two broad areas of knowledge tested
• Planning and Delivering Instruction
• Managing the Learning Environment

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Planning and Delivering Instruction

• Understand the use of instructional planning
  processes to design effective, meaningful,
  integrated, and developmentally appropriate
  learning experiences that facilitate achievement
  of individual and group goals ISBE APT Study
  Guide

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• Understand that there are multiple paths to
  learning, and apply knowledge of how to adapt
  instruction in response to individual strengths,
  needs, and interests to promote achievement for
  all students.

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• Understand and apply multiple approaches to
  instruction and use this knowledge to facilitate
  learning and encourage students development.

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• Understand curriculum development and apply
  knowledge of factors and processes in curricular
  decision making.

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Managing the Learning Environment

• Understand how to structure and manage a
  learning environment that encourages positive
  social interaction and engagement in learning
  promotes cooperative, purposeful, and responsible
  behavior and facilitates students achievement
  of educational goals.

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• Understand best practices related to motivation
  and behavior to create learning environments that
  encourage positive social interaction,
  self-motivation, and active engagement in
  learning.

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• Understand strategies for enhancing students
  social skills development.

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• Understand how to communicate effectively to
  promote active inquiry, learning, collaboration,
  and positive interaction in the classroom foster
  a climate of trust and support and facilitate
  achievement of student goals.

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What is being asked of you in these questions?
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• PURPOSE Fulfillment of task posed
• PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE Thorough, current and
  accurate professional knowledge
• SUPPORT/ELABORATION Demonstration of that
  knowledge through application with support and
  elaboration

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Audience Analysis

• Professional educators
• Demonstrate, to them, the depth of your
  understanding of pedagogical knowledge through
  your ability to apply your knowledge and skills
• Be sure to frame your ideas so that an educator
  licensed at your level (i.e., early childhood,
  elementary, secondary, K-12) will be able to
  understand the basis for your response.

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Writing Guide

• Be concise (no throat-clearing or other
  verbosity)
• Be precise (choose your words carefully)
• Be clear
• Be correct

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Test-Taking Strategies

• Read each topic carefully
• Prewrite
• make a grocery list of ideas
• organize your grocery list
• Reread for minor editing
• Proofread proofread proofread

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Assignment 1 Planning and Delivering Instruction

• Instructional Goal Help students develop the
  skills necessary for working productively as a
  members of a group
• In an essay to be read by an audience of
  teachers, specify a subject area and grade level
  for which you are prepared to teach, then

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• Identify a skill that is necessary for working
  productively as a group in the context of the
  subject area and grade level you specified
• Describe a learning activity that would aid
  students in developing that skill and
• Explain why you believe the learning activity
  would be effective in helping students develop
  the skill you specified

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Assignment 2 Managing the Learning Environment

• One important task for teachers to honor is to
  foster an environment of respect among all
  students. In an essay to be read by an audience
  of teachers, specify a grade level and subject
  area for which you are prepared to teach, then

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• Describe a strategy you would use to foster an
  atmosphere of respect among all students in the
  context of the subject area and grade level you
  specified and
• Explain how you believe this strategy would be
  effective in creating an environment of respect.

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Essentials

• Thorough knowledge base
• Practice practice practice writing essay answers
• Use the language of the question and the
  objectives

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• How will you establish classroom management plan
  at the beginning of the school year? What will
  inform your decision in designing this?

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• What kind of lesson would you create to involve
  the school and wider community? What elements
  would go into lessons involving school and
  community and why?