Demonstrate the use of evaluation procedures to monitor progress, assess teaching effectiveness and make instructional decisions and modifications for special needs children and for children from culturally or linguistically diverse populations. Demonstrate in the prepracticum, involving service learning how reading and writing experiences can be integrated around literatures themes, content topics and research projects. Engage in debriefing activities. Reflect on the roles of the teacher as a professional educator and lifelong learner as well as an instructional leader. Building word knowledge.
Candidates design a parent newsletter to share ways to connect home and school literacy programs.
Engage in debriefing activities. The Massachusetts Language Arts Framework for education. Preparing students to live productive lives in their communities both present and future. Clinical experiences such as interviews with teachers and specialists, cooperative group work, service learning projects, student sharing, reflective statements, and debriefing sessions with classroom teachers and professors. Field experiences such as classroom observation, book buddy experiences, guided reading prepracticum which takes place in the book buddy experiences and the development of the service learning projects, and reading assessments Evaluation and Grading Assignments Write a one-page paper to be shared in class that reflects on your own experiences in becoming literate and describes yourself as a reader and how you will continue to develop as a reader.