Friday, October 23, 2015

Overview of the Entire Year

•       September
•       Draft of Contextual Info Sheet—a description of your school teaching situation that will be submitted with each Component
•       Began reading the Standards for your Certification Area found on the boardcertifiedteachers.org website
•       Began to craft a chunk of instruction to be featured in your Component 2, which showcases your ability to use the architecture of accomplished teaching
•       October
•       Continued to design a chunk/block/unit/segment of instruction to meet the Component 2 guidelines
•       Some people began to teach this unit of instruction and collect student work as evidence
•       Began thinking about and researching what it means to differentiate instruction for content, process, and product—made choices about differentiating instruction for Component 2
•       November
•       You are probably teaching your Component 2 with the purpose of gathering data for the National Board.  This may not be the one you use, but could be your trial run. 
•       Eric and Libby will be going over the guidelines for video recording your class and talking about some of the equipment available to you.
•       You will still be teaching your Component 2 or maybe starting a different one based on what you learned with your first attempt.
•       You may be trying to prepare a skeletal outline of what you think your Component 3 will be.
•       Pondering, researching, and getting your mind wrapped around everything are also important activities.
•       December
•       You may be in any stage of your Component 2 work:  designing another unit of instruction to try out; analyzing student work from a previous attempt at Component 2; trying to answer questions from your Component 2 teaching.
•       You may be designing or teaching your Component 3 lessons or practicing video recording discussions with your students. 
•       Melissa Lampinen will be coming to the meeting to practice analyzing a video of hers.  If you have a video recording (no matter how imperfect at this point) and want to bring it in, please do so.
•       January
•       You are beginning to produce a rough draft of Component 2.
•       You are reading each other’s work
•       You are redesigning and re-doing components two and three as needed. 
•       You are starting to analyze and write about your Component 3 videos.
•       February through April
•       You are revising your writing, doing last minute teaching if needed to re-do a component
•       You are polishing up Components 2 and 3; giving and receiving feedback from your cohort group and mentors
•       You upload and submit your portfolios between April 1st and May 18th
•       May 18th
•       You are done!  Now you just make decisions about which components you want to do next year.



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