TCSS+assignments

(**Full Description** | **Models**) || 25% || (**Full Description** | **Models**) || 10% ||
 * __Assignment__ || __Brief Description__ || __Grade Percentage__ ||
 * **Unit Plan Genre Study** || At the beginning of the semester, you will look at 5 examples of unit plans from practicing English teachers in order to decide what you like and help us derive criteria for composing and evaluating your lessons/units.
 * (Full Description | Models)** || 5% ||
 * **Individual Unit Plan** || Over the course of the semester, you will compose a unit which includes a rationale/overview, assessments, and ten consecutive lessons in order to practice aligning lessons with unit understandings before your spring practicum.
 * (Full Description | Models)** || 30% ||
 * **Participation** || Throughout the semester, you will respond to your colleagues' lesson plans and teaching as we implement our collaborative unit; in addition, I expect you to arrive prepared (on time and having read and completed all assignments for each course meeting). Honest, professional, timely, and informed feedback on teaching will help you and your colleagues improve planning and instruction.
 * (Full Description | Models)** || 20% ||
 * **Summative Assessment Feedback** || At the end of the semester (and of our collaborative unit), you will complete the summative assessment we composed for the unit as if you were a student; then, in the role of teacher, you will provide feedback on these examples of "student work." These tasks will give you insight into the challenges of an assignment and the process of responding to and grading student work.
 * (Full Description | Models)** || 10% ||
 * **Field Experience** || During the semester, you will be assigned (with a partner) to a field placement in a local MS or HS classroom. You will document your experiences in a monthly field experience journal, which you will post on your personal page along with your "lead lesson" (and an annotated video clip from that lesson). This experience will help you practice using info about school, curriculum, and students to design, implement, and evaluate instruction. You will not be graded on your performance, but on how you make sense of it.
 * **Portfolio** || As teachers, we must often justify our practices to students, parents, colleagues, and administrators. At the end of the semester, I'll ask you to meet with me and a significant other (a parent, mentor, roommate, spouse--any outsider to our class community) for a portfolio conference. We'll talk for half an hour about 4-5 pieces you've collected that demonstrate who you are as a teacher/professional according to the NCATE/NCTE guidelines.