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This guide provides essential tips and best practices for writing your learning experience. It covers common issues and offers suggestions to enhance your documentation. Key components include creating a clear cover sheet, numbering pages, and incorporating teacher exemplars and student work. Learn to formulate essential questions, align learning to standards, and utilize assessment tools. Reflection on classroom experiences, technology resources, and modifications are also emphasized. This comprehensive approach ensures that your learning narrative is organized, insightful, and impactful.
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Tips For Writing Your Learning Experience The most common problems and some suggestions
Cover Sheet / Format • Circle or Underline - Final Version • Number Pages • Attachments can have a separate numbering scheme • Include teacher exemplar and student work in an attachment • All pages in the body of LE numbered with a footer
Learning Context • Enduring understanding-what do you want the student to take from the learning experience • Essential and/or Guiding Questions- • only need one essential question. • When do you write these questions? • Congruency table (use the language of the Standards) - Referencing the standards - Aligning elements - What do you look at when reviewing LE? - Standard - Task– Objective - Student Work- Rubric
Assessment: • Include a blank assessment tool in this section • Place for Comments • Title • student-Friendly • Student Role • Teacher generated sample- • Answer Key- Reference attachment
Student Work: • Grade Distribution • Graph—histogram • Comments – boys vs. girls • Explain each piece of work that was included— • Why did you selected this sample of student work - how is it representative? • Teacher Comments to the student • student work • assessment tools
Procedure: • Anticipatory Set • Scaffolding • Modeling • Guided Practice (small group, whole group) • Independent Practice • Closure • Technology
Resources: • Supplies and Equipment • Pens, Paper…… • Computer • Materials • Handouts, Notes, SMTA - Include in appendix • Reference Materials • Web sites • Books • Other Learning Experiences
Modifications • Task • Students do different things • How do you score? • Connection to assessment section?
Time: • Assessment time per student • Schedule • How this Learning Experience fits in to the curriculum
Reflection: • Reflect on Classroom Experience • Quote from student • Reflect on peer review • Date and time • Quote from peer • Lessons Learned - next steps
Reminders: • Power Rubric • Overall alignment • Self-assessment • Electronic Copy • Include samples of student work • Hard Copy
PowerPoint: • Convince me you are technologically literate • You prepared to present and have clear plan • Start with an introduction • A photo of school / room / students • Digital Images: Keep aspect ratio constant • Tell us why this is an important lesson • It is fine to use worksheets but try not to have the whole lesson driven by them - infuse some creativity
PowerPoint: • In general try to keep handouts to classmates to a minimum • Oral presentation should correspond to slide shown • No bird walking • Show real confidence and enthusiasm - and be ready
PowerPoint: Tables • Formulate tables so they can be easily seen. • Simplify • Congruency tables • Rubrics • Modifications tables
PowerPoint: Student work • Scan in student work if handwriting or illustrations are central • Type in student work if content is central • Include a histogram of student scores • Before and after score are great way to show the value added by your instruction • Explain the rational for the grade given to a piece of student work at each of the tree levels; • Distinguished • Pofecient • Developing
PowerPoint: Presentation Please give me a hardcopy of your PowerPoint before your presentation After your presentation - complete and hand in your self-evaluation sheet