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EDU 523

Advanced Educational Psychology
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APTS 2, 7 & 8 - required

Best Behavioral Practices
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Two teens (Lg.)
This paper satisfies the requirement for the EDU 523 Week 3 assignment:  Best Behavioral Practices.  The paper discusses an observation of behavioral practices in a real-time classroom environment.  It also helps to review various means to have create an effective classroom management plan and provide strategies and interventions to help the students to maintain self-discipline and responsibility within the classroom (meets AZ Standard 2:2,3,5,10).  It also provides a clear example of a teacher who has a strong working knowledge of the subject material that they are teaching and is able to provide clear examples of applicability in the real world (meets AZ Standard 7:2,4,5).  Furthermore, it reveals how to develop a lesson plan that keeps the students engaged and meets the requirements of the curriculum (meets AZ Standard 8:4).
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 2: Displays effective classroom management
Assessed performance 3: Encourages the student to demonstrate self-discipline and responsibility to self and others
Assessed performance 5: Facilitates people working productively and cooperatively with each other
Assessed performance 10: Applies to daily practice the ethics of the profession
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 2: Major facts and assumptions 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 4: Learning theories, subject matter, curriculum development, and student development and how to use this knowledge in planning instruction to meet curriculum goals
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    Week 3 Assignment for EDU523
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APTS 2, 4, 7 & 8 - required

Motivation -Opinion Paper
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Graduate (Lg.)

This paper meets the required elements of Week 6 with respect to Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Motivation in the classroom.  It also meets the Arizona Teaching Standards 2 (P6), 3 (P4,7,8,14), 7 (P2,3,4,5), and 8 (P4,6,7).

 
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 6: Provides a motivating learning environment
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 4: Models the skills, concepts, attributes, or thinking processes to be learned
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 14: Provides opportunities for students to use and practice what is learned
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
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 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 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 6: Influences of individual development, experiences, talents, prior learning, language, culture, gender, family, and community on student learning
Assessed performance 7: Principles of human motivation and behavior and their implications for managing the classroom and organizing individual and group work
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Author: Michael Uenking
Last modified: 2/25/2007 7:42 PM (EST)