Points Worth: 15 possible in total (NOTE: Torrey may adjust this point total as the term goes on to reflect the percentage of our class content/activities spent on this assignment)
Due Dates:
February 8 - Use the protocol (see link below) 1-2 times
March 8 - Use the protocol (see link below) 2 additional times
Project Overview:
One of the main foci in our course this year is identify and enact new ways of engaging ALL of your students (in particular students who teachers struggle to describe in assets-based ways and perceive to be "disengaged" or "non-participatory") in participating in your class/lessons by identifying, validating and leveraging the identity and assets that each student brings to and demonstrates (or could demonstrate) in class. Last term, we gathered information about the opportunities that you and your CT (if you are working with your CT on a regular basis) currently provide for your students to participate in your class/lesson as well as the classroom norms and power/status hierarchies present in your classroom that shape and influence how your students participate. We will build on this work this term to develop ways of viewing students in an assets-based way.
Directions:
Access the "Equitable Participation Project" in your personal folder
Use the Co-Noticing Student Participation Protocol 2 3-4 times this term with the assistance of your Cooperating Teacher, Torrey, or colleague at your school to gather information about your students' assets. NOTE: Torrey will put a digital copy of this protocol in your personal folder and will give you a printed copy of this protocol during class once we have finalized it as a class.
Each time you use the protocol, record notes summarizing what you and your cooperating teacher/the other teacher share and discuss for the prompts in each part of the protocol (you are welcome to use this notes sheet).
Put your completed copy of the Co-Noticing Student Participation Protocol 2 and any other materials/artifacts you and others generated while using the protocol in your "Equitable Participation Project" folder (which is in your personal folder)