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 * THREE ASSIGNMENTS **


 * Assignment 1, Teacher Work Sample (TWS)
 * Assignment 2, the reflection on the National Board Professional Teaching Standards
 * Assignment 3 is a summative reflection assessment.

**Assignment 1 : Teacher Work Sample (TWS) (40% of your final grade)** All teacher candidates must demonstrate the ability to develop an instructional unit and related lesson plans. They must also demonstrate the ability to design and implement varied assessment strategies, to implement those strategies in the classroom, to use assessment data and other feedback to modify instruction to help all students master predetermined learning outcomes,

The librarian’s role as an instructional partner in the school’s educational environment has evolved as instruction in general has become more collaborative. Teachers are no longer solely the experts dispensing information from inside the four walls of their classrooms. The librarian’s instruction is no longer restricted by the physical facility known as the library. The role of the librarian as an integral instructional partner has been identified by many sources, including members of the 2006 Vision Summit sponsored by the American Association of School Librarians as well as AASL’s //Standards for the 21st-Century Learner.// Librarians must be able to demonstrate their excellence as a teacher in order to be fundamental to 21st-century instruction.

The intern student will complete an instructional unit that focuses on the instructional process: specifying goals, determining prior knowledge and delivering optimal differentiated learner activities, planning formative and summative assessment, and implementing reteaching procedures until every student can meet the goal.

A history and overview of the Teacher Work Sample concept is at <[]>. The TWS requires the student “to develop and teach multiple lessons from a comprehensive unit.” A successful TWS will encompass seven teaching processes:
 * · Use information about the context of the environment of where the lessons are taught
 * · Set significant learning goals
 * · Use multiple assessment modes and approaches
 * · Designs instruction for specific goals
 * · Uses regular and systematic evaluations
 * · Uses assessment data to communicate student progress and achievement
 * · Reflects on instruction as a step toward improving instruction

As indicated in the “Teacher Work Sample Prompts” <[|www.ucmo.edu/cert/documents/TWSPromptsSpring2012_000.doc]> the Teacher Work Sample is a unit of instruction in one subject area for one class. The Teacher Work Sample meets a state certification requirement. It is meant “to document the student teacher’s daily participation in planning, teaching, assessing student progress, and self-evaluation.” Since your end product will be like a giant research paper, you will need to pace yourself through the process.

A timeline for planning your TWS might look something like this:

**WEEK 1** **WEEK 3**
 * Review contextual factors standard
 * Due week 3
 * Review learning goals and assessment plan
 * Pick unit to teach
 * Due week 4

**WEEK 4-5**
 * Start Teacher Work Sample

**WEEK 5**
 * Review design of instruction and instructional decision-making

**WEEK 7-8**
 * Review analysis of student learning and reflection and self-evaluation

**WEEK 10-11**
 * Teacher Work Sample is due for review and refinement, if necessary


 * GRADING **
 * This is the rubric that will be used to grade you TWS: [[file:TWSrubricspring2012_000.doc]]

Students who are not employed full time should do half their internship at the elementary level and the other half at the secondary level. A middle school could substitute for either of these. This does create potential problems in fulfilling the TWS because of the tight turn-around time. This means that the TWS process will need to get off the ground very quickly and it make take some finessing the student’s schedule in order to get the TWS completed. The TWS needs to be done only at one of the sites.

(Timeline suggested from http://www.kean.edu/~tpc/portfolio/Teacher%20Work%20Sample%20Portfolio.htm).

The rubric that will be used in evaluating your TWS is located at <[|www.ucmo.edu/cert/documents/TWSrubricspring2012_000.doc]>. This project will count for 40% of your internship grade.

Keeping in mind that the following do not necessarily follow the UCM instructions for the TWS presentation, you might find the following examples of TWSs of interest:

The Renaissance Partnership for Improving Teacher Quality · []

Missouri State University · []

Malcolm Price Laboratory School · []