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EED 473

Curriculum & Methods: Literacy, Reading, & Language - Grades 4-8
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Module 7

Using Rubrics
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Magnifying Glass (Lg.)

The following sample demonstrates my ability to employ the use of the Six Traits of Writing Rubric to evaluate students writing. I designed a Power Point that demonstrates how teachers can use rubrics to assess students and their writing allowing guided instruction in specific areas.
AZ- Arizona's Professional Teacher Standards
Standard 2: The teacher creates and maintains a learning climate that supports the development of students' abilities to meet Arizona's academic standards.The performance assessment shall measure the extent to which the teacher:
Assessed performance 1: Establishes and maintains standards of mutual respect
Assessed performance 2: Displays effective classroom management
Assessed performance 3: Encourages the student to demonstrate self-discipline and responsibility to self and others
Assessed performance 4: Respects the individual differences among learners
Assessed performance 5: Facilitates people working productively and cooperatively with each other
Assessed performance 6: Provides a motivating learning environment
Assessed performance 7: Promotes appropriate classroom participation
Assessed performance 8: Listens thoughtfully and responsively
Assessed performance 9: Organizes materials, equipment, and other resources appropriately
Assessed performance 10: Applies to daily practice the ethics of the profession
Standard 3: The teacher implements and manages instruction that develops students' abilities to meet Arizona's academic standardsThe performance assessment shall measure the extent to which the teacher:
Assessed performance 2: Communicates to students specific standards and high expectations for learning
Assessed performance 3: Links learning with students' prior knowledge, experiences, and backgrounds
Assessed performance 4: Models the skills, concepts, attributes, or thinking processes to be learned
Assessed performance 5: Demonstrates effective written and oral communication
Assessed performance 6: Uses appropriate language to communicate with learners clearly and accurately
Assessed performance 7: Uses strategies that are appropriate to students' developmental levels
Assessed performance 8: Incorporates strategies which address the diverse needs of learners, and demonstrates multicultural sensitivity
Assessed performance 9: Encourages critical thinking
Assessed performance 14: Provides opportunities for students to use and practice what is learned
Standard 8: The teacher demonstrates current professional knowledge sufficient to effectively design and plan instruction, implement and manage instruction, create and maintain an appropriate learning environment, and assess student learningThe professional knowledge assessment shall measure the extent to which the teacher has knowledge of:
Assessed performance 4: Learning theories, subject matter, curriculum development, and student development and how to use this knowledge in planning instruction to meet curriculum goals
Assessed performance 8: Effective evaluation of curriculum materials and resources for accuracy, comprehensiveness, and usefulness for representing particular ideas and concepts
Assessed performance 9: The characteristics, uses, advantages, and limitations of different types of assessments for evaluating how students learn, determining what they know and are able to do, and identifying what experiences will support their further growth and development
Assessed performance 10: Measurement theory, interpretation of test results, and assessment-related issues, such as validity, reliability, bias, and scoring
File Attachments:
  1. eed 473 PP- Rubrics to Assess Student Writing.pptx eed 473 PP- Rubrics to Assess Student Writing.pptx
    Power Point
  2. mod 7 rubrics.docx mod 7 rubrics.docx
    Word Document

Module 8

Literacy Program
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Puzzle (Lg.)

By designing a literacy program I have had the opportunity to design five lessons that will introduce students to the newspaper and how to write as a reporter. This project has allowed me to collect a variety of resources that I will use in my classroom and the experience has prepared me to create lessons for my classroom.
AZ- Arizona's Professional Teacher Standards
Standard 1: The teacher designs and plans instruction that develops students' abilities to meet Arizona's academic standards and the district's assessment plan.The performance assessment shall measure the extent to which the teacher?s planning:
Assessed performance 1: Focuses instruction on Arizona's academic standards
Assessed performance 2: Focuses instruction on the school's and district's academic standards
Assessed performance 3: Aligns curriculum with the student assessments
Assessed performance 4: Addresses any physical, mental, social, cultural, and community differences among learners
Assessed performance 5: Addresses prior knowledge of individual and group performance
Assessed performance 6: Indicates short and long term curriculum goals
Assessed performance 7: Includes appropriate use of a variety of methods, materials, and resources
Assessed performance 8: Includes learning experiences that are developmentally appropriate for learners
Assessed performance 9: Includes learning experiences that address a variety of cognitive levels
Assessed performance 10: Includes learning experiences that are appropriate for curriculum goals
Assessed performance 11: Includes learning experiences that are based upon principles of effective instruction
Assessed performance 12: Includes learning experiences that accurately represent content
Assessed performance 13: Incorporates appropriate assessment of student progress
Standard 2: The teacher creates and maintains a learning climate that supports the development of students' abilities to meet Arizona's academic standards.The performance assessment shall measure the extent to which the teacher:
Assessed performance 1: Establishes and maintains standards of mutual respect
Assessed performance 2: Displays effective classroom management
Assessed performance 3: Encourages the student to demonstrate self-discipline and responsibility to self and others
Assessed performance 4: Respects the individual differences among learners
Assessed performance 5: Facilitates people working productively and cooperatively with each other
Assessed performance 6: Provides a motivating learning environment
Assessed performance 7: Promotes appropriate classroom participation
Assessed performance 8: Listens thoughtfully and responsively
Assessed performance 9: Organizes materials, equipment, and other resources appropriately
Assessed performance 10: Applies to daily practice the ethics of the profession
Standard 3: The teacher implements and manages instruction that develops students' abilities to meet Arizona's academic standardsThe performance assessment shall measure the extent to which the teacher:
Assessed performance 1: Appropriately implements a teacher-designed lesson plan
Assessed performance 2: Communicates to students specific standards and high expectations for learning
Assessed performance 3: Links learning with students' prior knowledge, experiences, and backgrounds
Assessed performance 4: Models the skills, concepts, attributes, or thinking processes to be learned
Assessed performance 5: Demonstrates effective written and oral communication
Assessed performance 6: Uses appropriate language to communicate with learners clearly and accurately
Assessed performance 7: Uses strategies that are appropriate to students' developmental levels
Assessed performance 8: Incorporates strategies which address the diverse needs of learners, and demonstrates multicultural sensitivity
Assessed performance 9: Encourages critical thinking
Assessed performance 10: Connects lesson content to real life situations when appropriate
Assessed performance 11: Uses technology and a variety of instructional resources appropriately
Assessed performance 12: Uses a variety of effective teaching strategies to engage students actively in learning
Assessed performance 13: Maximizes the amount of class time students are engaged in learning which results in a high level of success for students
Assessed performance 14: Provides opportunities for students to use and practice what is learned
Assessed performance 15: Adjusts instruction based on feedback from students
Standard 4: The teacher assesses learning and communicates results to students, parents and other professionals with respect to students'abilities to meet Arizona's academic standards.The performance assessment shall measure the extent to which the teacher:
Assessed performance 1: Promotes student self-assessment
Assessed performance 2: Uses a variety of appropriate formal and informal assessments aligned with instruction
Standard 5: The teacher collaborates with colleagues, parents, the community and other agencies to design, implement, and support learning programs that develop students' abilities to meet Arizona's academic standards and transition from school to work or post-secondary educationThe performance assessment shall measure the extent to which the teacher:
Assessed performance 3: Accesses community resources and services to foster student learning
Standard 6: The teacher reviews and evaluates his or her overall performance and implements a professional development planThe performance assessment shall measure the extent to which the teacher:
Assessed performance 2: Designs and continually adapts a professional development plan for improving instruction and student learning
Standard 7: The teacher has general academic knowledge as demonstrated by the attainment of a bachelor's degree. The teacher also has specific academic knowledge in his or her subject area or areas sufficient to develop student knowledge and performance to meet Arizona's academic standardsThe subject knowledge assessment shall measure the extent to which the teacher has knowledge of:
Assessed performance 1: Skills and concepts related to the subject area
Required knowledge a: At the elementary level, the teacher demonstrates knowledge of language arts and reading, math, science, social studies, and fine arts.
Assessed performance 2: Major facts and assumptions that are central to the discipline
Assessed performance 3: Debates and the processes of inquiry that are central to the discipline
Assessed performance 4: Integration of disciplinary knowledge with other subject areas
Assessed performance 5: Connections between knowledge of the subject area and real life situations at the level of the students being taught
Standard 8: The teacher demonstrates current professional knowledge sufficient to effectively design and plan instruction, implement and manage instruction, create and maintain an appropriate learning environment, and assess student learningThe professional knowledge assessment shall measure the extent to which the teacher has knowledge of:
Assessed performance 5: Methods for recognizing and accommodating exceptional children
Assessed performance 8: Effective evaluation of curriculum materials and resources for accuracy, comprehensiveness, and usefulness for representing particular ideas and concepts
File Attachments:
  1. Course Reflection Course Reflection
    A final reflection and analysis of our journal entries throughout this literacy course.
  2. Literacy Program Literacy Program
    Week Lesson Plan on The Newspaper
  3. Rubric for lesson Rubric for lesson
Author: Michelle Susanen
Last modified: 01/21/2010 5:32 AM (EST)