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Understanding Social-Emotional Learning Social-emotional learning (SEL) is the process of developing students’ social-emotional competencies—that is, the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors that individuals need to make successful choices (Collaborativ...

Social and Emotional Learning for Parents - CASEL This video (SEL for Parents - CASEL) describes exactly what is meant by "social and emotional learning." After viewing the video, we were to complete our discussion post about the video and the impact of social and emoti...

Unpacking the TPEs & Reflecting on Them As teacher candidates, we are acquiring knowledge and skills to understand and begin to apply the Teacher Performance Expectations. We utilize the TPE’s because they also align with how districts will assess us and our r...

Reflective Practice and Rubric Design Madison is a student teacher. Madison will talk to you about TPE 1 Elements and demonstrate teaching at a Level 1, 2 and 3 to demonstrate instructional growth.

Cultural Iceberg Teacher identity, culture and values play a significant role in the classroom. In this assignment, we were to dive deeper (literally) into our own cultural iceberg. This Cultural Iceberg analogy coined by Gary Weaver (19...

Advice to Andrea For the Week 2 Discussion assignment we were to record a 3–5 minute response video to the following prompt:

ITL Teacher Dispositions Self-Assessment Dispositions are qualities one possesses or acquires to meet the expectations of a profession. The dispositions developed by the Sanford College of Education are the professional standards and dispositions that teachers ...

Unpack Rubrics The directions for Assignment 1B were to analyze the given Reflective Practice Rubric by unpacking the learning expectations by addressing specific questions. Unpacking the rubrics was to be used to assess our learning b...

Scavenger Hunt Assignment 1A for this week required us to explore the ITL program requirements, expectations, and test requirements by completing the scavenger hunt template of various program documents. We were to complete the scaveng...

Video Introduction For the Week 1 Discussion assignment, we were to post a video reflection where we introduce ourselves to classmates (name, the city you live in, an interesting fact about yourself that someone just looking at you would n...

Today I welcome my first guest author! Thanks Janet Campbell for a fantastic article!

Boosting Your STEM Teaching Skills: Essential Tips and Tools If you're a teacher, you might be looking for ways to improve your STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) teaching skills. In recent years, The Harvard Gazette notes that the demand and opportunities fo...

Might as well! 😂

The final assignment for this course is complete and graded. Final grades are in and another A is on the books. Hopefully my job will accept my coursework for a pay boost.

Experience with Critical Friend Peer Review Feedback For our final assignment, we were to provide a brief reflection on what we have learned this term. Specifically, we were to describe our takeaways from the course and how we benefited from the critical friend experience....

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Literature Review Presentation For our Unit 9 assignment, we were to create a digital story describing the main ideas of our literature review examining a motivational theory. Our story should be 4-6 minutes in length and include a mix of approaches...

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Assessment of Motivation and Interventions in Learning For our signature assignment, we were to create a robust TEDEd learning experience that can be used to teach about and assess motivation with our adult peers in this program.

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Self-efficacy, Teaching, and Technology For this discussion, were to self-review our week of using our chosen gamification tool from Unit 3. We were to do this via TikTok to showcase the effectiveness of the software in motivating us to continue with the learn...

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Literature Review, Part II Utilizing peer feedback from the storytelling discussion and critical friend work, we were to continue to develop our Literature Review from Unit 6.

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Reflection of the Self in Art For this week’s assignment in Unit 8, we were to dig into the idea of self and motivation a little further. This activity is supposed to be a fun one and might seem light-hearted, but if we did this with thought it shoul...

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Literature Review, Part I To begin preparing for the level of scholarly writing needed throughout your dissertation, we will complete a literature review for Unit 6 of this course. A literature review is an overview of various research in the fie...

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Motivation and Emotion Infographic For this assignment, we were to select a specific topic from the Unit 2 readings to present in an infographic to a group of learners of our choice (e.g., K-12, higher education, training, military, etc.). We were allowed...

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Poster Session: Technology Advancements For our first residency, we were to prepare a poster: The poster session will be held on Tuesday, June 6th. This year's poster session will be structured similarly to a virtual conference poster session. we were allowed ...

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Social Justice, Motivation, and Technology This course seems to be a bit out of order. For our Unit 4 assignment, we were to utilize a presentation tool of our choice (e.g., PowerPoint, Prezi, etc.) to address the following ideas by focusing specifically on one ...

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Emailing a Student about Motivation Issues This course will utilize a “Critical Friends" approach to learning. Throughout the class, we will be assigned 1-2 critical friends and we will provide each other feedback on assignments throughout the course.

Module 3 assignment posted...
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Qualitative Research Terminology For the Module 3 assignment, using the provided list below of important vocabulary within qualitative research, we were to create an Adobe Spark poster that illustrates and describes each of the key words. Each word was ...

Week 2 assignment posted...
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Types of Qualitative Research For our Module 2 assignment, using the platform of our choice, we were to create a 4-6 minute presentation that describes each of the primary types of qualitative research (grounded theory, phenomenology, narrative, case...

Week 2 Discussion Post...
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The Potential for Social Justice in Qualitative Study In the Module 2 discussion, we were to address the following questions via a video response and interact with our classmates on their perspectives of these topics. Our video response to this week’s discussion topic was t...

Week one grades are in and posted to the blog. 100% on both the discussion and written assignments.