Ask the Expert! Final Questions of the Semester

• Do ed TPA first
• Finish Unit Plans with group members-(overview, rationale, what the unit plan is about, topic, concepts you are going to introduce, misconceptions the students might have, and the standards you are going to address in the unit plan) replace what she has on her eFolio with the content with your own unit plan (central focus, goals, and objectives)- provide the lesson plans in one single document (lessons 1-5 in same paper)-3 full lessons, 2 mini lessons
• Blog- reflect on what you learned about cooperative learning as a method of teaching social studies (describe how the aspects were played out in the project in class) Explain the stages and what happened. Provide the link to Jigsaw.org. How did you create a positive environment in your classroom? How did you apply the approach of the social interaction model to teaching geography?
• Subject matter outline (or graphic organizer) webspiration, bubbleus graphic organizer to create topics on the topic, then key concepts under, then skills to develop, and generalizations- Outline of what you will teach (Main topic and Subtopics)- Life in New Spain (Subtopics- social classes, Spanish explorers, missions (religion), slavery). Concepts taught, what do you expect students to know, generalizations & big deals.

P1: Introduction to what cooperative learning is

P2: 1st Jigsaw Presentation to small groups and how you brought that into fieldwork

P3: 2nd Jigsaw Presentation to full class, what were you responsible for

P4: Reflection on how that helped you to learn from one another and what you learned from working together

P5: Conclusion & provide resource links at the bottom

*Rubric on eClass

• Assessment, Section 5- Provide 3 types of assessment( Diagnostic-word cloud, provide screenshot and how you pre-assessed students prior knowledge)- all screenshots of things that you used for evaluating 
• edTPA Task c - materials , handouts, whatever we designed as materials for them and D-assessment materials)
• Formative- Explorer Page Organizer
• Summative- students wrote a paragraph or letter