Teachers for a New Era Presentation

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Teachers for a New Era Presentation

• Ryan Jones
• Manchester High School

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Disclaimer

• This is not official State Department of
  Education information. Different subject areas
  may have different expectations and requirements
  for the portfolio. Please consult your mentor and
  the teacher-in-residence for your particular
  subject area with specific questions or for
  assistance.

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We are really adults now?
Transformation Before and after the BEST
Portfolio
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BEST

• Beginning Educator Support and Training Program
  it is a program of acclimating new teachers to
  the profession.
• Submission of a Portfolio is required for most
  subject areas.
• Changes?!?!?
• In 2008-2009, Year 2 Teachers are still required
  and will be scored.
• Year 1 Teachers may not submit a portfolio for
  scoring in 2008-2009.

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BEST

• BEST scorers review your portfolio and rate you
  on
• Presenting concepts and skills through the medium
  of content.
• Planning of rigorous and challenging activities
  for your students.
• Adjusting instruction daily for the needs of all
  learners.
• Adjusting instruction daily for the needs of
  specific learners.
• Reflection, reflection, reflection.

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Planning

• Activities, strategies and methods used in your
  unit should be both challenging and appropriate
  for your class.
• Differentiation for multiple groups and
  individual learners.
• Your portfolio is scored by teachers within your
  subject area. They will be familiar with what is
  good planning and with specific terminology
  used in your content area.
• Investigation/inquiry
• You will describe your unit design within your
  portfolio.

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Implementation

• You will complete lesson logs descriptions of
  each daily lessons that include
• The concepts, activities and materials used for
  that day.
• A description of what occurred during the
  lessons.
• ADJUSTMENTS You should be adjusting instruction
  throughout each class and subsequent based upon
  student learning needs. These adjustments can be
  for the entire class, groups of students or
  individual students.

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Assessments

• Assessments are pieces of student work that
  demonstrate learning.
• You should be assessing students using multiple
  formats that account for individual student
  learning preferences, needs and styles. It is
  more than appropriate to give students a choice
  when implementing assessments. You will have
  certain assessments that you will be required to
  include.
• Clear expectations, directions and rubrics.

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Reflection

• There is a reflection component to each lesson
  and to the unit as a whole.
• Reflections should be an honest account of your
  teaching
• You should use and cite student work as evidence
  in all written reflections
• It is easier to complete these reflections as you
  go along and teach your unit connection to
  adjustments by reflecting and evaluating the
  lesson, you can make relevant adjustments.

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Sample Lesson

• Conceptual Focus for Quarter 1
• How should a society meet its needs?
• Essential Questions for Unit and Lesson
• Is there such a thing as economic fairness?
  (Economics Unit Question)
• Does OPEC work to promote fairness? (Lesson
  Question)
• Inquiry Activity OPEC Simulation
• Assessments Game Board, Written Reflection,
  Exit Slips

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Sample Lesson

• Think about a lesson that you currently teach or
  have taught and ask yourself the following
  questions
• What type of learning is taking place? Are kids
  learning concepts and skills, or just content and
  facts?
• How did you assess learning? What do those
  assessments tell you about your students? What
  should they tell you about your students?
• What kind of differentiations and strategies
  could be made during the course of your lesson to
  make it appropriate for special education and
  gifted students?
• How would you judge and determine the success of
  your lesson?
• Brainstorm some strategies of adjustments that
  may be made in the course of the lesson, the
  following lesson and for the unit to help
  specific and groups of kids to find success.

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Questions?