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Evidence of at least 13 consecutive weeks of student teaching, or an equivalent learning experience.
Evidence: Student Teaching Verification. Two forms, signed by the two Vermont licensed art educators, as my mentor teachers. I completed my student teaching at two schools: Charlotte Central School, a K-8th grade school, and Montpelier High School, a 9-12th grade school.
Leyden _ Bresler - Peer Review Prof. Attributes Dispositions Form.pdfDescription: Displayed here is the Peer Review Professional Attributes and Dispositions form completed by my mentor teacher, Lisa Bresler, art educator at Charlotte Central School (K-8 school) and President of the Vermont Art Teacher Association (VATA). Included on this form is her evaluation of my role as teacher in her classroom as well as the dates of my student teaching experience. I had originally planned to spend 14 weeks (Tuesdays-Fridays) in Lisa's classroom but the time was interrupted by school closures. The total in-class time was nine weeks with four weeks of distance learning.
Analysis: Lisa was an incredibly encouraging mentor teacher from the start of my time in her classroom. She checked in with me daily on highlights of the day, what I had learned, and any take aways I had gained. Although I appreciate seeing this completed form, the most valuable feedback that Lisa could give me was the daily check ins and the immediate response to me teaching. Lisa liked to throw me into lessons, giving me the chance to take the reins in a moment's notice. She would then talk to me about my strengths and aspects of my teaching that I could improve upon.
Lisa gave me scores of "3"s and "4"s. The two areas in which Lisa gave me a "2" are: Planning and Assessments. We had planned on me completing two weeks of solo teaching in April to finish off my student teaching experience and I would have done planning around that time to prepare myself. Unfortunately, I was not able to demonstrate to Lisa my planning capabilities with that time taken from us. Since we continued to teach online after the school closures, we worked collaboratively on lesson plans. I created a website for her and we both worked on providing learning experiences for the Charlotte students.
Assessments is the other area that I was not able to show Lisa my proficiency. As we had planned for her to demonstrate her summative assessment strategies to me and I was to track students during my solo weeks, this was not an area we were able to complete as planned. I did, however, adapt her formative assessment strategies that I learned earlier during my student teaching experience.
Description: This is the Peer Review Professional Attributes and Dispositions form completed by my mentor teacher, Liz Swindell, art educator at Montpelier High School. Included on this form is her evaluation of my role as teacher in her classroom as well as the dates of my student teaching experience. I had originally planned to spend 13 weeks (on Mondays) in Liz's classroom but was interrupted by school closures. The total in-class time was eight weeks with four weeks of distance learning. With high school students, the transition from in-class to distance learning was more seamless since the students' already had experience using computers, email, and online platforms.
Analysis: Liz has been a supportive and wonderfully collaborative mentor teacher to me. She has trusted me to come up with art exercises within lessons to do with her high schoolers and we had many opportunities to create learning targets for the students in her art classes.
On this form, Liz notes that, "Lorien is an absolute professional. She is hard working and has consistently gone above and beyond my expectations. She strives for excellence and is driven to be a great educator".
Similar to my student teaching experience with Lisa, Liz and I did not have the opportunity to carry out our plans in the classroom due to school closures. She did not get the chance to allow me to assess her students beyond giving comments online once we moved to distance learning.
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