Teacher Accountability
At the base of every teachers lesson,
ideals, and actions should lie a standard. Standards gives student learning structure and strong goals. Stardards also promote
equality across classrooms. Standards assure even though teaching make look different from teacher to teacher, each is still
student given the chance to reach the same learing outcomes for his or her grade level. There are many stanadards
for a teacher to follow.
As teacher I have national, state, and
school standards to follow. One of the standards I have worked with a lot this semester are the National Science Education
Standards or NSES. These standards were developed by a national organization that wish to promote scientific literacy
with in students. This way students can meaningfuly discuss and particpate in scientic issues that affect society. These standards
adress scientific content, teaching, and assessment. While desinging several of my feild work lessons I constantly adhered
to the NSES content standards. One lesson I designed that I heeds to the NSES standards was my benchmark lesson on ecosystems.
Also, as a teacher in training,
my school has many standards and objects for me to meet in my courses. One standard that I work with a lot this semester was
the Marquette University and the Wisconsin State Department of Instruction Standard # 1. This standard is composed of knowledge,
disposition, and preformance indicators. I was assessed on these indicators through a critcal task on the concept of magnitism.
In order to fullfill the knowledge
indicators I had to give a detailed explanation
of major concepts, complex understanding of the major
concepts, assumptions and ways of knowing. Also give a clear analysis of how
possible student misconceptions can influence learning.
For the disposition iindicator I had to display thoughfull understanding of multiple perspectives
related to the major concepts, included a variety
of multiple perspective.
Finally for the preformance
indicator I had to develope a variety of creative representations and teaching methods, select a variety of curricular and
community resoures and thoughtfully articulate ratinale for inclusion. Finally, I had to thoughtfully articulate how the curricula
encourages students to see questions and interpret major ideas from multiple prespectives. To view this task click the appropriate
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