Course Description
Course Description
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Apprenticeship Teaching (AT) is a field placement course in which I will teach full time in a middle school classroom for the duration of 4 weeks. As part of this course, I am teaching six class periods daily, three gifted and three standard level general science courses. During this time period, I will be creating lesson plans and formative assessments to ensure the students have an optimal experience in preparing for their state mandated science test. I will be working alongside my mentor teacher to gain insight on my teaching, and I will be attending biweekly seminar meetings to discuss my experiences at the middle school.
placement information
placement information
I will be teaching at Fort Clarke Middle School, working with Ms. Kamody. My classes will be 8th grade general/gifted science classes
Student Artifacts
Student Artifacts
In order to assess students in this class, I used formative assessments as part of every lesson plan, and summative assessments occasionally when it was time to switch to a new topic. I used results from formative assessments to direct my teaching and determine what student misconceptions were most common, then designed my summative assessment to specifically target these concepts and ensure students were improving. Below are some pictures of students doing activities, as well as some of their formative and summative assessments. To see a more specific statistical analysis of the formative assessments, see the student misconceptions project.
Students make snowmen
Learning about surface tension and mixtures
Using baking soda and shaving cream
Lots of fun (and messy)
Doing a lab on Newton's third law.
Seeing scientific concepts in common objects.
Student formative assessment: I used to think... but now I know... about forces, and an exit ticket ranking understanding of various topics.
Students define Newton's laws in their own words, and draw each one.
Students take a pre-assessment on the topic of forces. See more on misconceptions project.
Summative assessment on similar questions as the pre-assessment.
Part two of the summative assessment on forces.
Feedback to students according to the RISE feedback model.
Learning environment
Learning environment
Classroom Culture
Classroom Culture
Technology Integration
Technology Integration
(1). pHeT simulation on forces: Students do the linked Phet lab on forces and motion, then answer questions according to the RERUN formative assessment prompt to summarize what they have learned.
(2). Slow motion videos showing Newton's 2nd law: this video showed students two balls hitting a container of baking soda. They hit at the same time but with a different force.
(3) Kahoot quiz on forces: The linked trivia game was used this to review before the quiz on forces.
(1) RERUN formative assessment to check student understanding of the pHeT lab on forces.
IMG_0960.mov(2) Slow motion video of two objects in freefall creating dents of different sizes.
Professional improvement- observation forms
Professional improvement- observation forms
Observation Forms
Observation Forms
Student Feedback
Student Feedback
Weekly Reflections
Weekly Reflections
professional development
professional development
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