Create Assessments

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Pre-assessments are an essential element in planning instruction. The first step in designing solid instruction is to determine a baseline for individual students. As a teacher, it is important to remember that students enter the classroom with diverse backgrounds and skill levels. Some students may have special needs and require basic skills review. Other students may need to be challenged at a higher level than what their teachers initially intended. Integrating creative arts into lessons can support learning preferences and tap into different interests and ability levels.

For this assignment, select one English language arts standard appropriate for the field experience class based on collaboration with the mentor teacher. Create two assessments that incorporate different forms of creative arts (art, music, theater, or dance), including the following:

· One formative assessment tool to assess young children’s reading skills and possible misconceptions.

· One formative assessment to promote phonics as a part of the reading process.

APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

 

The standard is for 3rd grade English Language Arts in the State of Tennessee

Adopting A Strengths-Based Perspective

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Behavior Management Plan

Based on course readings and theories develop a student behavior management plan.

The following components must be addressed in a 2 page paper:

*Describe the classroom setting (i.e. grade level, subject area, number of students, ability levels, demographics, ESOL/ESE/Gifted etc.)

*Describe how to address two problem behaviors and two positive behaviors

*Identify one research-based classroom strategy to address each one of the two problem behaviors and positive behaviors and explain your rationale for each strategy

Include at least three credible references (one must be the textbook: ISBN-10: 0132868628 • ISBN-13: 9780132868624)

Helpful Class Videos:

– How To Maintain Classroom Discipline – Good And Bad Methods Training Educational Video (1947!)

– Classroom Management (Elementary): A Morning with Linda Kasarjians 1st Grade Class

– Education & Motivating Students : Motivating At-Risk Students

– Just for Teachers: Motivating Your Students Through a Supportive Environment

– Teach Like A Champion: Cold Call Technique

Composing Professional Email

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As an educator, it is important to be able to communicate effectively in a professional manner. A special education teacher will need to communicate to a variety of stakeholders in a variety of ways including phone calls, meetings, email, etc.

Review the “Sample Professional Email.” Write a general email that could be modified and sent to each of the individuals you will interview in the three field experiences in this course. Look ahead to Topics 4, 5, and 6 to preview the individuals you will be interviewing. Once reviewed by your instructor, you will be able to use these emails to set up the interviews needed for each field experience assignment.

APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

Secure permission to participate in music making or participate as an active observer.

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Instructions

During Weeks 5-8, you will plan and carry out a Fieldwork Project in the tradition of ethnomusicology. The subject of the Fieldwork Project could be anything from a colleague who plays acoustic guitar in a military unit to a local high school band or church choir. As you carry out the Fieldwork Project, you will explore music making by an individual or group as a music culture. The project must include a live listening experience and the opportunity to speak with musicians.

The complete instructions for the Fieldwork Project are found under Course Resources. This assignment gives you the opportunity to explore a topic of interest, synthesizing your learning for the entire class:

  •     articulating the roles and functions of music in world cultures
  •     using the medium of music to explore intercultural relationships
  •     consciously defining musical perspectives
  •     identifying key features that define various genres of world music.

In preparation for beginning the culminating Fieldwork Project, read “Doing Musical Ethnography” available as an eReserve under Course Resources.

To review some examples of fieldwork and to learn about the work of an ethnomusicologist, visit the James Koetting Ghana Field Recording Collection. You will find field recordings, notebooks, images, interviews and musical demonstrations from his work during the 1970s.

The Fieldwork Project is to be completed during Weeks 5-8 by carrying out 4 steps. The first step is due during Week 5.

During Week 5:

1) Choose a topic and find a live listening opportunity to hear and observe musicians participating in the music culture you have chosen.

2) Secure permission to participate in music making or participate as an active observer.

3) Confirm that you will be able to speak with at least one of the musicians.

Submit the topic, live listening opportunity and confirmation that you will have the opportunity to interview at least one of the musicians at the Fieldwork Project Topic link, worth 5 out of the total 25 points for the entire project. You will receive feedback so you will know that you are on the right track before completing the Research Questions portion of the project during Week 6.

Submit the Fieldwork Project Topic to the assignment folder by the end of Week 5 (Tuesday at 11:59 PM ET).

Please view the grading rubric to see how to earn the full 5 points for submitting the topic, live listening opportunity and confirmation that you will have the opportunity to interview at least one of the musicians.