CED0 550 Week 5

In reflecting on my teaching experiences to date, I would say that the proportion of teacher centered versus student centered lessons has been …

Most of my teaching experiences during my first year of teaching were very much teacher centered but since then I've really focused on making my lessons student centered. I think my first year I was in survival mode, which I'm sure every teacher can related to during the first year. So much is new - the content, the classroom management, the grading, lesson planning, not to mention all of the other non-classroom related things to learn, monitor, be responsible for. After getting a few of those variables under control, I felt much more relaxed and able to give up some of the control in the lesson delivery as well. There are times when lecture is important to give the material and teach key concepts but I really try to be the facilitator and let the students guide their learning process in an hands-on manner whenever possible.

I was able to identify more than one authentic assessment to measure mastery of a single concept lesson when I …

For the assignment this week, I only described one authentic assessment to measure mastery of the lesson but with a bit more time to think about it, I could come up with multiple assessments for the students to choose from to demonstrate the mastery of the learning objectives. Time to develop these ideas and corresponding rubrics is always the issue.

The rubric I created for my lesson clearly defined expectations and scoring for the lesson so that my students could …

Easily understand the expectations of the assignment. As with all assignments with rubrics, it gives the students basically a checklist to use during the creation process as well as prior to submitting the work to make sure all key concepts and elements have been covered and included in the assignment/assessment.

While working on this module I had success/difficulty while doing something new involving …

This week I've been spending much of my time developing and going over my synchronous facilitation which I have tonight. I'm very nervous about it, especially after trying to get into the virtual classroom early to get files loaded, breakout rooms set up, etc to find out that Elluminate is now been purchased by Blackboard, right? The log-in screen looks different with "Blackboard" on it. I hope the interface of the virtual classroom isn't different that that of the room that I practiced and played around with in our small groups. In addition, I don't have the moderator privileges yet to be able to upload my presentation, etc. Deep breaths...everything is going to be fine...and what doesn't go as planned will be a learning experience. :)