Nick Sigmon Chris Halter EDS 379B 3/13/2014

Olympian High School 5th and 6th period Chemistry in the Community

Thoughts on edTPA Teaching Events lessons

TPE 1: Teaching Science in a Single Subject Assignment Explanations, demonstrations, and class activities serve to illustrate science concepts, and principles, scientific investigation, and experimentation. Mr. Sigmon performing a demonstration for the lab. This lab explored the validity of the Law of Conservation of Mass.

TPE 2: Monitoring Student Learning During Instruction Pace instruction and re-teach content based on evidence gathered using assessment strategies such as questioning students and examining student work and products. Check For Understanding What is the charge on a magnesium (Mg) ion? (be sure to include both magnitude and sign)

TPE 3: Interpretation and Use of Assessments Teach Students how to use self-assessment strategies and provide guidance and time for students to practice these strategies. Students assessed their own performance on the lab report, using the rubric that they had been given, before turning it in.

TPE 8: Learning about Students Using formal and informal methods, they assess students’ prior mastery of academic language abilities, content knowledge, and skills, and maximize learning opportunities for all students. The “chemistry pretest” is given to all new students. It is designed to assess general chemistry knowledge, and has a section specifically related to academic language.

TPE 9: Instructional Planning Sequence instruction so the content to be taught connects to preceding and subsequent content. From time to time I like to use “where we’ve been” slides to help students keep track of how everything fits together.

Next Steps To accommodate varied student needs, they plan differentiated instruction. Connect the content to be learned with students’ linguistic and cultural backgrounds, experiences, interests, and developmental learning needs to ensure that instruction is comprehensible and meaningful. When support personnel, such as aides and volunteers are available, they plan how to use them to help students reach instructional goals.