Teacher work sample

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Prompt for Teacher Work Sample

The Vision

Successful teacher candidates support learning by designing a Teacher Work Sample that employs a range of strategies and builds on each student’s strengths, needs, and prior experiences. Through this performance assessment, teacher candidates provide credible evidence of their ability to facilitate learning by meeting the following standards:

The teacher uses information about the learning/teaching context and student individual differences to set learning goals and objectives, plan instruction, and assess learning.

The teacher sets significant, challenging, varied, and appropriate learning goals and objectives.

The teacher uses multiple assessment modes and approaches aligned with learning goals and objectives to assess student learning before, during, and after instruction.

The teacher designs instruction for specific learning goals and objectives, student characteristics and needs, and learning contexts.

The teacher uses on-going analysis of student learning to make instructional decisions.

The teacher uses assessment data to profile student learning and communicate information about student progress and achievement.

The teacher analyzes the relationship between his or her instruction and student learning in order to improve teaching practice.

Your Assignment

You are required to teach a comprehensive unit. Your instructional goals and objectives should be based on your state or district content standards. You will also need to create an assessment plan designed to measure student performance before (pre-assessment), during (formative assessment), and after (post-assessment) your unit instruction. Finally, you need to analyze and reflect on your instructional design, educational context, and learning gains demonstrated by your students.