ED 420

Sarah Ward SED/History

Students: For each category, provide a brief description of nature and location of evidence. Assessors: For each category, highlight the appropriate descriptor (i.e. inadequate, emerging, proficient, distinctive)
Sources of evidence include, but are not limited to,-video* of teaching at two different levels (ELC: kindergarten and elementary; ELM: elementary and middle; SED: middle and secondary), lesson plans, unit plans, feedback from cooperating teachers and Alverno supervisors, multimedia presentations, web quests and other interactive technologies

Electronic Portfolio: www.sarahwardteachingportfolio.weebly.com 1. Planning and Preparation

Emerging Criteria The candidate applies subject matter knowledge to develop lessons/units that: relate to state and/or district standards use varied instructional strategies are for varied developmental levels that represent levels of licensure address varied content areas (for ELC/ELM: math, science, language arts & social studies; for SED: varied disciplinary fields) use appropriate teaching and resource materials include provisions for individual students with particular learning needs include both formal and informal assessments that provide information about student learning, e.g. rubrics, tests, checklists, opportunities for students to self assess The candidate demonstrates the ability to effectively produce multi-media communication tools and can support her decisions for their use in enhancing student learning. Inadequate Proficient Distinctive Brief description of nature and location of evidence

Evidence Rationales: rationales address the use of Wisconsin Teaching Standards and Alverno Education Abilities. - Location: Under Middle School, High School, and Video Taped Tabs Business and Economics Unit Test: I designed a formal assessment that provided information for student learning. - Location: High School Teaching Tab Video & Description of Video: I designed and taught lessons at both levels of my certification. -Location: Video Teaching Tab 13 Colonies Lesson: I designed a lesson using a variation of instructional strategies and art analysis.

-Location: High School Teaching Tab Tokyo Sky City Lesson: I created a lesson focusing on technology and advancement social studies standards relating to the sixth grade level. - Location: Middle School Teaching Tab Cold War Unit Plan: I created a unit plan for potential use in a classroom that provides materials, assessments, and standards. - Location: High School Teaching Tab

2. Classroom Environment
Emerging Criterion The candidate demonstrates the ability to apply social and cultural understanding in interpersonal situations by: designing learning experiences that best relate to the characteristics of individuals and groups perceiving and responding to elements in interaction, e.g. roles, developmental levels, culture, language, etc. describing how characteristics of individuals and groups influence teaching decisions Inadequate Proficient Distinctive Brief description of nature and location of evidence

Russia Lesson: I created a lesson requiring the students to work in groups. The groups were decided based off of reading level. -Location: Middle School Teaching Tab Vietnam Lesson: I created a lesson based on the age and developmental level of my students. - Location: Video Examples Tab War Economies Lesson: I created a lesson based on the characteristics of the classroom environment. I was also able to relate to the students culture and roles. - Location: High School Teaching Tab

3. Instruction and Assessment

Inadequate Emerging Criterion The candidate demonstrates the ability to accurately implement instruction and assess student learning by providing: samples of completed assessments in which the experiences used to assess student learning relate directly to the lesson/unit objective(s) self assessments that focus on student learning as a result of lessons taught in field placements feedback from cooperating teachers and Alverno supervisors Proficient Distinctive Brief description of nature and location of evidence

Business and Economics Unit Test: Created a formal assessment with each question directly relating to a lesson objective. -Location: High School Teaching Tab Feedback from Cooperating Teachers and Alverno Staff: All feedback from observed lessons is included, as well as final evaluations from my cooperating teachers. -Location: Field Experiences Tab War Economies Lesson: I was able to self-assess the lesson I taught and how it influenced student learning. - Location: High School Teaching Tab Third Field Culminating Reflection: I completed a culminating self-assessment from my teaching throughout the semester. -Location: Field Experiences Tab

4. Professional Responsibilities and Reflection

Inadequate Emerging Criteria The candidate articulates how she has applied educational frameworks (e.g. Bloom, Piaget, Erikson, Maslow, Montessori, Cambourne, Gardner, Holdaway, Purkey, etc) and their influence on her teaching by stating the major aspects of selected theories in her own words and identifying where she has applied these theories. The candidate represents herself as a reflective practitioner by: showing, in rationales and self assessments, where modifications of her teaching have or should have taken place analyzing and articulating ways in which elements of diversity have Proficient Distinctive Brief description of nature and location of evidence

Evidence Rationales: rationales address the use of Wisconsin Teaching Standards and Alverno Education Abilities. Most rationales address Blooms Taxonomy. - Location: Under Middle School, High School, and Video Taped Tabs Video Example Lesson Reflection: the video rationales discuss what I did well and where I could improve in my teaching.

influenced her planning, teaching, and assessing describing, in a letter to an ED 201 or AE 222 student, her growth in understanding and using the Wisconsin Teacher Standards and the Alverno Education Abilities limiting her choices of appropriate artifacts that provide evidence of an ability to synthesize the Wisconsin Teacher Standards and the Alverno Education Abilities including artifacts that address all 10 Wisconsin Teacher Standards and all 5 Alverno Education Abilities

-Location: Video Examples Tab Letter to ED 201 Student: This letter reflects the steps an education student will take towards her understanding in the Wisconsin Teaching Standards and Alverno Education Abilities. -Location: More Tab Reflective Piece

Feedback: 5. Oral and written communication

Inadequate Criteria Emerging Distinctive Brief description of nature and location of evidence

Consistently engaging audiences by using appropriate conventions, coherent structures, and effective style Accurately analyzing ones own ideas in relation to disciplinary/professional contexts Articulating meaningful relationships between disciplinary/professional frameworks and the selection of artifacts by explaining the Wisconsin Teacher Standards and the Alverno Education Abilities in her own words

Evidence Rationales: rationales address the use of Wisconsin Teaching Standards and Alverno Education Abilities. - Location: Under Middle School, High School, and Video Taped Tabs Professional Development: Shows evidence of professional development. Also, provides engaging material to supplement own ideas. -Location: More Tab Professional Development Paper from HS 375 Course: This is an example of my own relation to the social studies content. -Location: More Tab Professional Development under Global Studies in the Humanities Title

Feedback: Overall Feedback: Overall Performance:

Inadequate Emerging Proficient Distinctive

Artifact/Evidence Whitman Russia Lesson Whitman Tokyo Sky City Lesson Fairview Three Gorges Dam Lesson Brookfield East Protestant Reformation Lesson Reagan War Economies Lesson Reagan Business and Economics Unit Test Reagan 13 Colonies Lesson Cold War Unit Plan Whitman Vietnam War Lesson Brookfield East Enlightenment Ideas in America Lesson Reagan Industrial Revolution Lesson

Education Ability Communication Conceptualization Coordination Integrated Interaction Communication Diagnosis Integrated Interaction Conceptualization Coordination Diagnosis Communication 3, 5, 6 7 4 2, 5 1 8, 9, 10 4, 7 8 3 6 2, 9

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Website Tab Middle School Teaching Middle School Teaching Middle School Teaching High School Teaching High School Teaching High School Teaching High School Teaching High School Teaching Video Examples Video Examples Video Examples