Slippery Rock University Student Teaching

Student Learning Objective (SLO) Project

Adapted from the “Pennsylvania Teacher Candidate Effectiveness Assessment,” created by a PAC-TE subcommittee

Introduction: 

Teacher candidates in all undergraduate teacher certification programs at Slippery Rock University will complete a Student Learning Objective (SLO) project during student teaching.  This process and project has been designed to provide evidence of the effectiveness of the teacher candidates’ teaching, to provide teacher candidates with the opportunity to apply their knowledge of the Danielson Domains through their reflection on their teaching, and to provide teacher candidates with an experience similar to what they may complete as part of their future teacher evaluation. in short, teacher candidates should show that they can help students grow in their content area. 

Objective(s):

Through the completion of the Student Learning Objective Project, the teacher candidate will:

• Analyze student data and content standards to identify an area of growth for a target population of students.
• Develop pre- and post-assessments that can be used to determine student growth.
• Develop an instructional plan that reflects best practices in a specific teaching discipline.
• Implement an instructional plan and adapt instruction to the target population of students in the unique qualities of the environment in which they are learning.
• Analyze pre- and post-assessments to determine academic growth.
• Reflect on a cycle of planning, teaching, assessing and analyzing using Charlotte Danielson’s Domains for Teaching.
• Reflect on the ability to use technology, when appropriate, throughout the cycle of planning, teaching and assessing and analyzing.

Target Date(s):  To be completed during the student teaching semester.  We recommend that you strive to complete this as soon as feasible during student teaching.  Your university supervisor will notify you of the final due date for your SLO Project.

Student Learning Objective (SLO):

The SLO Project is to be completed in three stages. As such, feedback can be provided to the teacher candidate by the cooperating teacher and university supervisor at key stages during the process.

The tasks associated with each stage are outlined below. 

Please refer to the scoring rubric for additional details on what to include in each section.  You will be typing a narrative description for each stage in the separate tabs in this folio by clicking on Text & Image and then typing in the text box.  You are able to upload other evidence, like audio, video, and documents.

Stage 1:

• Analysis of Student Performance Data
• Identification of Instructional Needs
• Identification of Target Population
• Establishment of Achievement Goal

Stage 2: 

• Development of Pre and Post-Assessment
• Development of Instructional Plan
  • In this section, please be sure to include your instructional plans (lesson plans) for the lessons relevant to your SLO, as well as any handouts or other resources you are developing to support your achievement goal(s).
  • The specific rubric for this section differs for each certification area.  Please see the specific rubric for your certification area under the SLO module on D2L to ensure that you meet the requirements.  If you have questions, contact your university supervisor.

Stage 3: 

• Delivery of Pre-Assessment
• Delivery of Instructional Plan
  • Describe the implementation of the lessons that you designed in Stage 2, including ties to the Danielson Domains and subdomains.
• Delivery of Post-Assessment and Analysis of Academic Growth
  • Include data (ex. graphs, charts...) but remember to remove identifying student information.
• Instructional Reflection
  • Be sure to include strong connections to the Danielson Domains and subdomains.