Tips For Writing Your Learning Experience

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Tips For Writing Your Learning Experience

• The most common problems
• and some suggestions

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Cover Sheet / Format

• Circle or Underline - Final Version
• Number Pages
• Attachments can have a separate numbering scheme
• Include teacher exemplar and student work in an
  attachment
• All pages in the body of LE numbered with a footer

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Learning Context

• Enduring understanding-what do you want the
  student to take from the learning experience
• Essential and/or Guiding Questions-
• only need one essential question.
• When do you write these questions?
• Congruency table (use the language of the
  Standards)
• - Referencing the standards
• - Aligning elements
• - What do you look at when reviewing LE?
• - Standard - Task Objective - Student Work-
  Rubric

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Assessment

• Include a blank assessment tool in this section
• Place for Comments
• Title
• student-Friendly
• Student Role
• Teacher generated sample-
• Answer Key- Reference attachment

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Student Work

• Grade Distribution
• Graphhistogram
• Comments boys vs. girls
• Explain each piece of work that was included
• Why did you selected this sample of student work
  - how is it representative?
• Teacher Comments to the student
• student work
• assessment tools

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Procedure

• Anticipatory Set
• Scaffolding
• Modeling
• Guided Practice (small group, whole group)
• Independent Practice
• Closure
• Technology

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Resources

• Supplies and Equipment
• Pens, Paper
• Computer
• Materials
• Handouts, Notes, SMTA - Include in appendix
• Reference Materials
• Web sites
• Books
• Other Learning Experiences

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Modifications

• Task
• Students do different things
• How do you score?
• Connection to assessment section?

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Time

• Assessment time per student
• Schedule
• How this Learning Experience fits
• in to the curriculum

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Reflection

• Reflect on Classroom Experience
• Quote from student
• Reflect on peer review
• Date and time
• Quote from peer
• Lessons Learned - next steps

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Reminders

• Power Rubric
• Overall alignment
• Self-assessment
• Electronic Copy
• Include samples of student work
• Hard Copy

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PowerPoint

• Convince me you are technologically literate
• You prepared to present and have clear plan
• Start with an introduction
• A photo of school / room / students
• Digital Images Keep aspect ratio constant
• Tell us why this is an important lesson
• It is fine to use worksheets but try not to have
  the whole lesson driven by them - infuse some
  creativity

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PowerPoint

• In general try to keep handouts to classmates to
  a minimum
• Oral presentation should correspond to slide
  shown
• No bird walking
• Show real confidence and enthusiasm - and be
  ready

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PowerPoint Tables

• Formulate tables so they can be easily seen.
• Simplify
• Congruency tables
• Rubrics
• Modifications tables

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PowerPoint Student work

• Scan in student work if handwriting or
  illustrations are central
• Type in student work if content is central
• Include a histogram of student scores
• Before and after score are great way to show the
  value added by your instruction
• Explain the rational for the grade given to a
  piece of student work at each of the tree levels
• Distinguished
• Pofecient
• Developing

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PowerPoint Presentation

• Please give me a hardcopy of your PowerPoint
  before your presentation
• After your presentation - complete and hand in
  your self-evaluation sheet