Pinhole Camera Design Challenge Instructor Notes. Jill Marshall ...

Jill Marshall &
Gretchen Edelmon
1. Observe, analyze, and discuss how students' knowledge and skills can be built using a variety of
instructional strategies (including direct instruction, inquiry teaching, and use of small groups),
understand what each model requires of teachers.
2. Solve problems in science and mathematics and justify their solutions, reflecting on their own
learning and the learning of others and relating results to learning science, demonstrating awareness
of alternative conceptions and their possible origins.
3. Students will participate in and analyze a design challenge.
4. Create and evaluate tasks to build students' content knowledge and assess students' content
knowledge based on evidence including video and written artifacts.
5. Observe and analyze classroom instruction and data on student participation and performance with
regard to equitable and diverse participation (whether all students have an opportunity to learn).
6. Plan and teach, with a small group of peers, multi-day high school mathematics/science lessons on
an assigned topic in a manner that is entirely consistent with the Code of Ethics and Standard
Practices for Texas Educators.
7. Submit digital videotapes of multi-day lessons for community review by peers and instructor.
8. Employ relevant technologies in teaching (e.g., presentation, computer simulation, and graphical
analysis & representation software); analyze how technology can affect classroom interactions.
9. Read and analyze research results and theoretical literature in science education and cite these
results in analyses of their own teaching and reports to their peers.
10. Create a significant portion of their preliminary portfolios and demonstrate beginning competency
as measured by applicable teacher certification standards, including the Code of Ethics and
Standard Practices for Texas Educators.
CLASS REQUIREMENTS
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Design Challenge Syllabus
UTeach Institute - NMSI Annual Conference
Austin, TX / May 24 – 26, 2011
Code of Ethics. During this semester you will be acting as the instructor of a high school class (or classes). As
such you will be required to follow the Code of Ethics and Standard Practices for Texas Educators. Violation
of any portion of this code may result in penalties, including possible grade reduction and loss of course credit
(See http://www.tcta.org/capital/sbec/codeapproved.htm.)
Class meetings. The class will typically meet twice per week. Class participation is required and will
determine a portion of your grade for the course. Students who are unable to attend class should review
Blackboard and contact the TA or the instructor to find out what they missed and negotiate the possibility of
making up the work. Makeup work should be submitted within 1 week of the missed class unless otherwise
negotiated.
Work outside of class. Students are expected to devote 7 hours per week outside of class to: 1) watching,
processing, and analyzing videos of classroom interactions (including your own teaching), 2) reading and
analyzing books and articles, and preparing written analyses of your teaching and other issues and 3)
preparing to teach in local schools, including observing in the classrooms where you will teach. We have
arranged an additional hour per week of scheduled class time to give you an opportunity to work with your
teaching teams and master teachers.
Field Experience. A major portion of this course is the field experience. You will interview and observe
classroom teachers and teach twice in high school classrooms. The teacher interview will be Feb. 3 at 4:30 at
Crockett High School. At that time you will schedule your observations. The first teaching experience will be
during the week of ????. The second will be a two-day teach (MW or TTh) during the week of ????. We will
make every effort to schedule you to teach at times that do not conflict with your other courses or obligations,
but it may not be possible to do this in all cases. Since this is official university business, it will count as an
excused absence, but you will be required to make up any work that you miss. I will supply your instructors or
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