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Alec 805 Teaching Portfolio: Exploring Students' Teaching Effectiveness, Becky Haddad Apr 2023

Alec 805 Teaching Portfolio: Exploring Students' Teaching Effectiveness, Becky Haddad

UNL Faculty Course Portfolios

This portfolio explores students attainment on InTASC Standards 1 & 3 through ALEC 805: Advanced Teaching Strategies. Students completed an initial teaching roots reflection and a final education philosophy that served as the basis for analyzing growth in effective teaching. Overall, students had more statements discussing teaching methods and strategies in their final education philosophies than they did in their initial reflections, but used their own experience to substantiate these methods much less. This provides opportunities for additional synthesis and reflection through the course, as well as opportunities for future scholarship in the course focused on students' connection to their …


Comparing Formative And Summative Instruments: What Tools Inform Practice And Guide Teacher Candidate Decision Making?, Christina L. Wilcoxen Apr 2017

Comparing Formative And Summative Instruments: What Tools Inform Practice And Guide Teacher Candidate Decision Making?, Christina L. Wilcoxen

Student Work

With an increased focus on field-based preparation, the relationship between P12 school districts and universities has been forced to change with little or no support to create effective third space environments. The complexity of the student teaching experience is compounded by the need for redefined roles, the lack of a common lexicon and the incongruence of accreditation systems. A Convergent Parallel Mixed Methods study was conducted to compare the use of formative and summative evaluation tools used to evaluate teacher candidates during student teaching. It also explored how the use of these two tools impacted the feedback provided and implemented …


Using Edtpa Local Scoring To Drive Program Change, Lyn L. Countryman Aug 2014

Using Edtpa Local Scoring To Drive Program Change, Lyn L. Countryman

Lyn L. Countryman

A short documentation of edTPA development on the campus of UNI is described.