Explore+your+Content+Specific+TPA

The Following Homework Assignment is Due today 11/22/11:

Explore your content specific TPA found on the TPA website- check your email subject:TPA info.

Please Bring the following to class: 1- A note sheet that includes when and how you will teach your learning segment do that by: Review your curriculum with your cooperating teacher and select a learning segment of 3–5 lessons (or, if teaching science within a large time block, about 3–5 hours of connected instruction) to describe, analyze, and reflect upon. The learning segment should provide opportunities for students to develop their abilities to use scientific concepts and scientific inquiry to explain a real-world phenomenon. (You will hand that note sheet to ruth-ellen before you leave class on 11/22.)

2- Review Cazden article. Consider how the reading connects to classroom management. You will not need to hand in notes on this topic yet, you will need to be able to speak on the topic. What are the connections between communication and effective learning?

3- Bring your Classroom Management case study (see EDUC 510 syllabus) to class, be ready to share it.