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EDC 353: CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT MAGAZINE PROJECT DUE DATE: May 5, 2020
ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION
Your final assignment will take the form of an individually created, customized classroom management themed magazine issue. A magazine is a publication containing articles and illustrations, often on a particular subject and that is aimed at a particular readership. This assignment replaces your final exam.
ASSIGNMENT FOCUS
For this assignment your magazine theme will be Classroom Management. Your target audience will be newly hired first year teachers. The goal of this assignment is for you to reflect on the highlights of your learning experiences during class throughout the semester. You should reflect on your initial understanding of classroom management and how it has evolved and developed over time. You should use your textbook, course activities, discussions, lectures, and any other course content to guide the development of your first magazine issue. A template will be provided to guide the development and design of your magazine.
MAGAZINE FORMAT & DESIGN
A template is provided for you to complete this assignment.
Give your magazine a good name.
Article templates have headers that have been provided to you to help you organize your
content.
You may customize the colors and design of the template to meet your design vision and needs.
Try to stick to the format of the magazine as much as possible but you may make changes if
needed.
Use pictures and graphics to make your magazine interesting and relevant.
In the event you need additional template pages, you may duplicate any page provided to you
for your magazines needs.
MAGAZINE CONTENT (Requirements)
This assignment requires you to use the provided template to write 4 articles from the following 5 themes (These themes can also be the titles of the articles you write):
Five priorities for your first day of school in terms of rules and procedures
Your ideal classroom arrangement
Your action plan for communicating with parents
Tips on planning and conducting instruction
Five essential things teachers must do to manage student work
Use these links to guide how you write your articles:
o https://wps.pearsoned.com/wps/media/objects/6524/6681325/Article_writing.pdf
o https://www.freelancewriting.com/magazine-writing/6-magazine-article-writing-tips/
Each article should highlight key points and concepts from the themes above that you believe new teachers should know.
You cannot cover everything so think about the main things a new teacher needs to know on the first day of school.
You should use your textbook as a primary source and you may also use other course content, articles etc. to strengthen your magazine articles as well. This may include video links (YouTube) other links to resources and guides etc. Remember, these articles are intended to help new first year teachers!
It is important that you do your own work and do not plagiarize content or materials from sources. Please be sure to list sources.
Your overall grade will be largely based on a Rubric that will look at: o Your full completion of the assignment (4 articles)
o Your following all directions
o How well written your articles are
o The organization of your magazine
o The design and creativity of your magazine
PLEASE READ THE RUBRIC SO YOU ARE CLEAR ABOUT HOW THIS ASSIGNMENT WILL BE GRADED!
