The Culminating Teaching Experience task assesses the candidate’s ability to integrate the strands of the previous three tasks. The candidate:

• learns about students and plans student instruction and assessment activities based on the learning goals
• adapts the plans and assessments for English learners and for students with other instructional challenges
• teaches the lesson and administers the assessments
• analyzes and uses instruction and assessment results to plan further instruction
• reflects on the lesson, the classroom instruction, the learning results, and on his/her effectiveness as a teache

This task is completed with actual K-12 students, and a video recording is made of the classroom instruction.*

To submit this task, you must:

1.        Be currently enrolled in one of the following:

·         TED 531B  Student Teacher Seminar II

·         TED 628B  Internship Clinical Practice II

2.        Provide written response to the prompts presented relating to planning and executing an assessment for:

o   The whole class

o   With adaptations for English Learner

o   With adaptations for a Student with an Instructional Challenge.

2.        Include with your submission:

a.      Unedited 20-minute video of this lesson

b.      Sketch of your classroom i.e. floor plan; please label the EL and SN students 

c.       Assessment related to the learning goals of the lesson  

d.      Samples of specific students’ work

TPEs Addressed Within This Task:
 

TPE 1: Making subject matter comprehensible to students;
TPEs 2, 3: Assessing student learning;
TPEs 4, 5, 6, 7: Engaging and supporting students in learning;
TPEs 8, 9: Planning instruction and designing learning experiences for students;
TPEs 10, 11: Creating and maintaining effective environments for student learning;
TPE 13: Developing as a professional educator