Your Teacher Webpage: Realizing Your Dream

Teaching others is the highest form of knowledge. When we learn, we first memorize
information, process it, write about it, analyze, and finally create new ideas and form new
connections. Research studies show that the highest form of expressing mastery learning
is when you can teach your learning to others.
For this course, you will create a Teacher webpage, an electronic portfolio that not only
collects and displays the work from this course, it also demonstrates your mastery of
learning. On this webpage, you are to publish for the world. This Teacher Webpage is your
portfolio, one you will take with you as you progress through your teaching career. It is
your self-reflection, your embodiment of knowledge gained, and a storehouse for resource
collection. This electronic portfolio is what you might submit when applying for a job; it
will in no way be complete after completion of this course. You will add to it, refine it, and
make it your work of art. Therefore, it must be application worthy, hold professional
writing, and assume scholarly endorsement.
As you create, think about what this webpage says about you, as teacher, to the prospective
employer. Does it demonstrate your knowledge? Writing ability? Creativity?
Professionalism? Accuracy of information? Will it make the difference between you and
another candidate?
Your goals are simple:
1. This website is to be created as if you are using it to apply for a teaching position.
One aspect of securing a teaching position is to provide an electronic portfolio that
demonstrates your knowledge, writing abilities, organizational skills, creativity, and
philosophy of education.
2. Each of the learning objectives listed in the syllabus will be part of your portfolio
and demonstrate your level of mastery on the subject. Please refer to the syllabus
for other information.
3. All writing must be professional and accurate in grammatical and conventional
form.
4. Though you will collect work as teams, you will write using your own words.
5. Any form of plagiarism, including posting peers writing and/or cutting and pasting
of found work, will result in a zero.
6. The design of the website is completely yours; you will decide which website
format to use, how you will organize the site, which graphics to use, etc.
7. Required elements are listed below along with the scoring rubric.
8. Due date: 11.25.14 @ 11:59 P.M. No extensions.
9. This webpage demonstrates your level of mastery and is worth a total of 200 points.

Required Topics to be included on your webpage.

1. Major Events in History
2. iSMS of Education
3. NCLB Definition and Information
4. Types of Schools
5. Brain Development and Theorists
6. 21st Century Skills and Student Motivation
7. DRAFT lesson plan of your own
8. REVISED lesson plan with differentiation
9. Field Observation self-reflection
10. Field Observation presentation
11. Code of Conduct Pinterest or other
12. Philosophy of Education
13. CAM self-reflection
14. Completed webpage

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Objectives from course:

1. Major Events in History: Identify 10 major events in the history of education and
discuss their influence on todays programs and classrooms. Choose ten major
events in history, define these events, discuss what happened, and add how these
events may have changed your individual education and perspectives on teaching . You
are required to write at least one paragraph.
2. iSMS of Education: Identify those characteristics suggested by research that are
most frequently associated with effective teaching. Upload information regarding
the theorists and isms we learned in class. This can be a ShowMe/VoiceThread or
written. Discuss which -iSM and theorist best describe your teaching style/philosophy.
Which teachers have you had that follow a certain isms/philosophy? Required.
3. NCLB Definition and Information: Describe how education functions in the United
States today including the impact of education laws such as the reauthorization of
NCLB. On your webpage, devote one section to the impact of current laws such as
NCLB and its reauthorization. Also, answer this question: What is the law doing to
support and deconstruct school as we know it today? Required.
4. Types of Schools: Compare public education with other educational
options/structures. Choose three different types of educational structures; include
your field observation location. Compare and contrast two similarities and differences
in each. Using elements from each structure, answer this question: What will school
look like in the 22nd century? Required.
5. & 6. Brain Development & Theorists and 21st Century Skills & Motivation:
Describes the ever-changing demands of 21st century learning and
how theorists connect it to brain-based teaching. Suggest how curriculum and
instruction must be designed to address these theorists and brain development in

the 21st century. Using the Framework for 21st Century Learning, illustrate (draw)
your classroom using Show Me and talk about what your instruction and students
learning will look like based upon the grade level/content area you intend to
teach. Then choose one of the theorists and describe how his/her theories match how
your classroom will use this theory and BE a 21st century learning environment.
Include one element you learned from John Medina's chapter on Meet Your Brain.
7 & 8. Draft and Revised Lesson Plans:
Understand the need for differentiated instruction and explain how schools and
classrooms address students with special needs. What does it mean to learn
differently? Upload a draft lesson plan. Then, once we have learned about
accommodations, upload the revised lesson plan that includes four differentiated
strategies. Required.
9. & 10. Field Observation and Field Observation Presentation: complete ten hours
of field observation and create a presentation (no powerpoint) on what you learned.
Use your field observation driving questions to create the presentation.
11. Code of Conduct Pinterest: Summarize major legal and ethical obligations
issues facing schools today and apply them to specific situations. Upload Code of
Conduct (Pinterest or other) to your webpage, and compare/contrast the Code of
Conduct with the Catholic Social Teaching Strands. Required.
12. Philosophy of Education Essay: Develop a personal philosophy of education
based on ones own school experiences, current research on best practices, and
models of exemplary teaching. Upload your philosophy of education see rubric and
directions.
13. CAM: Discuss how standards, assessments, and data influence instruction. Write a
one-page self-reflection on the information you learned from the Assessment 335
presentation that includes information on standards, assessment creation, and data
collection. Required.
14. Hand in completed webpage: 11.25.14 @ 11:59 P.M. No extensions.