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Amy Bezdek Proficiencies Reinhardt College Price School of Education May 2009

Amy Bezdek Proficiencies Reinhardt College Price School of Education May 2009. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” -- Henry Brooks Adams Website. Introduction. Amy Bezdek Early Childhood Education R.M. Moore Elementary School First Grade

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Amy Bezdek Proficiencies Reinhardt College Price School of Education May 2009

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  1. Amy BezdekProficienciesReinhardt CollegePrice School of EducationMay 2009 “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” -- Henry Brooks Adams Website

  2. Introduction

  3. Amy Bezdek Early Childhood Education R.M. Moore Elementary SchoolFirst Grade Carrie Wilcosky All Subjects

  4. R. M. Moore Elementary School, located in northwest Cherokee County, Georgia, has a student population of approximately 585 students. They offer educational services from Georgia-funded Pre-Kindergarten through the sixth grade. With 76 full-time and part-time staff positions, this Federal Title I school serves the educational needs of an area known as Waleska.

  5. Ms. Carrie Wilcosky’s first grade class consists of twenty students, eleven female and nine male. All are Caucasian with the exception of one female of Latino heritage. The educational abilities of the class are wide. Three students are in the school’s gifted AIM classes, three are being served by EIP services, and the other fourteen are average to above-average students. There are three male students receiving speech services.

  6. Class Schedule 7:25-8:00 Morning Work 8:00-9:00 Math and Snack 8:00-8:30 Speech for JM, JB, SR on Mondays/Tuesdays 9:00-10:30 Reading/Language Arts 10:30-11:15 Specials (PE, Music, Art, Technology) 11:15-11:40 Reading/Language Arts 11:40-12:15 Lunch 12:15-1:40 Social Studies/Science/Health 12:15-12:55 EIP Math – JB – Monday – Friday 12:55-1:30 EIP Reading – JB, SJ, LW – Monday-Friday 1:40-2:00 Recess 2:00-2:15 Dismissal Pull outs are in Italics

  7. Candidate Teaching • Nervous • Excited • Overwhelmed

  8. II.  PROFICIENCY EVIDENCE:

  9. DOMAIN I:  PLANNING FOR DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION & ASSESSMENT  • Proficiency 1.0: The teacher candidate uses knowledge of curriculum, learner differences, and ongoing assessment data to plan for student access to same essential content. • Reflective Analysis:  How did you use knowledge of curriculum, learner differences, and ongoing assessment data to plan for student access to same essential content? • Main Artifact: • Lesson Plans:  Unit Plan

  10. DOMAIN II:  PROVIDING DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION & ASSESSMENT • Proficiency 2.0: The teacher candidate utilizes a variety of strategies to differentiate instruction and assessment. • Reflective Analysis:  How did you utilize a variety of strategies to differentiate instruction and assessment?  • How did you decide which strategies to use and how did you provide for inclusion students?Artifact Possibilities: • Rubric • Photographs of Performance-Based Tasks • Room Lay Out Links to websites utilized: • www.prometheanplanet.com Student work: • Various Assessment Activities

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  12. DOMAIN III:  IMPACTING STUDENT LEARNING • Proficiency 3.0: The teacher candidate uses systematic formal/informal assessment as an ongoing diagnostic activity to measure student growth and to guide, differentiate, and adjust instruction. • Reflective Analysis:  How did you use systematic formal/informal assessment as an ongoing diagnostic activity to measure student growth and to guide, differentiate, and adjust instruction? • Artifacts: • Completed Assessment Tools: Pre-Assessment, On-Going Assessment, Post-Assessment • Lesson Plan (Anecdotal Records, Checklists,Analysis of Student Learning I and II etc.) • Impact on Student Learning Reflections

  13. DOMAIN IV:  PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES IN SUPPORT OF DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION & ASSESSMENT • Proficiency 4.0: The teacher candidate displays a professional commitment to the teaching philosophy of differentiated instruction to support students’ diverse learning needs and to maximize learning. • Reflective Analysis:  How did you display a professional commitment to the teaching philosophy of differentiated instruction to support student’ diverse learning needs and to maximize learning? How did your teaching philosophy change during candidate teaching? • Artifacts:  • Evaluation from College Supervisors • Evaluations from Collaborating Teacher • Communication and Letters to and from ParentsProfessional Organization Memberships – Professional Association of Georgia Educators 2007-09; National Parent Teacher Association 2004-09; The Georgia council of Teachers of Mathematics 2007-08. • Teaching Philosophy • 2007 • 2009 • You may choose to describe an ethical dilemma you encountered in Candidate Teaching and the decision-making process that you or another went through in order to resolve this dilemma? • You may also choose to describe how your participation in meetings, in-services, and professional development activities that affected your teaching philosophy?

  14. III.  SUMMARY:  Candidate Teaching Experience

  15. In conclusion....... • What are your future challenges as a teacher?  • How do you think that being a teacher will be different from being a candidate teacher?  • What advice would you give to future candidate teachers?  • What is your plan to continue to develop as a professional?

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