Integrated Practical Experience

IPE Deliverables:

In conjunction with this Methods course, teacher candidates will complete an Integrated Practical Experience(IPE) as explained in:

DESE: Pre-Practicum Gateway Tasks http://www.doe.mass.edu/edprep/resources/pre-practicum.html

- An Hour Log documenting 15 hours of focus and submitted to the college on the AIC log of hours template,
- A Journal documenting the experience (see Journal example form), and
- An Observation Reflection paper synthesizing the observations.

A. Your IPE will be multi-faceted. You will observe in a mentor teacher’s classroom in the same field as you for at least ten hours. Part of growing as an educator is observing the practice of others in order to grow in our own practice. You will also count one hour towards interviewing/meeting with the teacher you observed in order to better understand their processes and systems. You will generate your own questions for this task. (Total 11 hours)

B.You will count 4 hours towards assisting or full role instruction. If you are assisting, you may assist in the classroom that you observed. If you are doing full role, you are going to document some new practices that you are implementing based upon your work with the mentor teacher. (Total 4 hours)

C.You will count ten hours full role in your classroom with two conditions. Your mentor teacher has to come in once to do an observation and provide you feedback. This will be only 30 minutes. After this, you will implement some changes based on the feedback.

Your mentor will come back and do one more observation about the changes you have made.

Your mentor may use the observation form F which is used in the practicum experience or they may write it on a paper. (You will provide this feedback as evidence of experience completion).

You will videotape yourself during this section of the IPE and then post it as a discussion thread.

The 15 hour requirement must be met during the eight (8) weeks of this course. Course incompletes will not be approved for failure to meet this requirement.

A. I.P.E. Timelog: The 15 hour requirement can be accomplished through a combination of classroom observations, interviews, and full role teaching. See above.

B. Observation Journal: Your observation journal is a 1/3 – 1/2 page on what you are observing for each observation session. The information recorded will be factual in nature.

C. I.P.E. Reflection Paper: Classroom observations are the foundation for writing the reflection paper. The reflection paper uses the observation journal as a basis to reflect on what you observed to determine if what you observed was considered good practice or not. You will also indicate what you learned as a result of this experience. Following from your classroom observations, you can include your takeaways to be those practices that you want to get better at or even what you would never do in your class because you felt it was ineffective. This paper should use APA format for headings and citations.

E. In your observation journals and reflections, note some of the following information to be used in your three page paper:

i. What are some scaffolding techniques you observed for assisting Special Education/ELL students to comprehend content-specific knowledge?

ii. Was prior knowledge accessed? How?

iii. What are some of the instructional strategies used for improving learning?

iv. Comprehension in the content areas for Special Education/ELL students.

v. How was academic language (subject-specific language) developed as a pre-cursor for the content area for Special Education students?

vi. What are examples of Formative Assessments to use with Special Education/ELL students to gather data for improving instruction?

vii. How does attitude, knowledge, and understanding of different disabilities by teacher’s impact instruction to Special Education/ELL students?

ix. How does the teacher handle classroom management? Are the students all treated the same or is there a difference? How do you know?

x. How is digital literacy incorporated into the instructional/learning practices?

xi. How is literacy incorporated into the instructional/learning practices?

General Questions about embedded hours can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La8L20Rp27w

Classroom Video- Detailed Description:

Following the district’s protocols regarding videorecording classroom instructional practices, you will videotape yourself teaching/facilitating a class. The videotape’s length should be at least 20 minutes but no more than 40 minutes. The video file can be converted to a YouTube, Vimeo, or Panopto web link link.

2. Privacy Protocols:

Sharing should be 'unlisted' or 'private'
Do not use students' full names
Do not include faces of students who have a 'do not photograph' statement on file

2. You will view the video and analyze your performance through a critical lens. What did you do well? What could you improve upon? What were your challenges? What would you like to do better? By having some self-reflection, you are actually assisting your instructor and peers with being able to provide more targeted feedback to assist you with being a better teacher.

3. What should you record?

1. Provide a video of an activation lesson. How are you activating prior knowledge? What sort of activity are you providing the students to engage them in the upcoming lesson? What is the real life application, question, or problem they are going to solve?

OR

2. Video a lesson where you provide whole group instruction and the activity that follows the instruction. Whatever you choose, we should see some evidence of your instructional practices as well as see student learning/engagement activities.

For ideas and examples, you can view instructional videos at these links:

DESE Classroom Video Examples:

http://www.doe.mass.edu/edeval/resources/calibration/videos.html

Ambitious Science Teaching:

https://ambitiousscienceteaching.org/video-series/

3. Reflection:

Within the video, in the Description for the video, include the following(or a link to the following) where you answer:

View the video and analyze your performance through a critical lens.

What did you do well?
What could you improve upon?
What were your challenges?
What would you like to do better?
By having some self-reflection, you are actually assisting your instructor and peers with being able to provide more targeted feedback to assist you with being a better teacher.

How are you activating prior knowledge? What sort of activity are you providing the students to engage them in the upcoming lesson? What is the real life application, question, or problem they are going to solve?

Integrated Practicum Experience (Hour Log, Observation Journal, Reflection Paper) (points TBD)

In conjunction with this Methods course, teacher candidates will complete an integrated practical experience culminating in evidentiary documents including:

An Hour Log documenting 25 hours of focus and submitted to the college on the AIC log of hours template,
A Journal documenting the experience (see Journal example form), and
An Observation Reflection paper synthesizing the observations.

A. Your IPE will be multi-faceted. You will observe in a mentor teacher’s classroom in the same field as you for at least ten hours. Part of growing as an educator is observing the practice of others in order to grow in our own practice. You will also count one hour towards interviewing/meeting with the teacher you observed in order to better understand their processes and systems. You will generate your own questions for this task. (Total 11 hours)

B.You will count 4 hours towards assisting or full role instruction. If you are assisting, you may assist in the classroom that you observed. If you are doing full role, you are going to document some new practices that you are implementing based upon your work with the mentor teacher. (Total 4 hours)

C.You will count ten hours full role in your classroom with two conditions. Your mentor teacher has to come in once to do an observation and provide you feedback. This will be only 30 minutes. After this, you will implement some changes based on the feedback.

Your mentor will come back and do one more observation about the changes you have made.

Your mentor may use the observation form F which is used in the practicum experience or they may write it on a paper. (You will provide this feedback as evidence of experience completion).

You will videotape yourself during this section of the IPE and then post it as a discussion thread.

The 25 hour requirement must be met during the eight (8) weeks of this course. Course incompletes will not be approved for failure to meet this requirement.

A. I.P.E. Timelog: The 25 hour requirement can be accomplished through a combination of classroom observations, interviews, and full role teaching. See above.

B. Observation Journal: Your observation journal is only about a 1/3 – 1/2 page on what you are observing for each observation session. The information recorded will be factual in nature.