Work and/or Practiced-Based Experience Journal

Work and/or Practiced-Based Experience Journal

Assignment:
Learning to teach is a complex process. It is a combination of theory, theory put into practice, and experience. Teachers keep molding their craft and getting better as each year passes. One cannot learn to teach from a textbook alone. It is imperative to conduct classroom observations and reflect on these observations. Students will complete a total of four work and/or practice-based experience journals. Note: this assignment occurs four times throughout the semester.

Objectives:
Demonstrate ability to accurately interpret the results of ongoing assessments in oral language development, including sentence and grammatical complexity, and to use the results to inform instructional planning and delivery, including differentiation strategies and interventions.
Demonstrate knowledge of the continuum of oral language development as described in the Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines and the TEKS for ELAR (Kindergarten through Grade 5), including basic stages of oral language development; characteristic features of children’s oral language at different stages of development; and the importance of providing young children with frequent, repeated, incremental exposures to and opportunities to use new academic language structures in meaningful contexts, including providing opportunities for low-risk oral language rehearsal.
Recognize that individual variations in oral language development occur and that speech or language delays require additional support and monitoring in the early childhood education classroom and may warrant in-depth evaluation and/or collaboration with other professionals, if improvement is not achieved through classroom interventions.
Demonstrate knowledge of research-based strategies and best practices for promoting students’ understanding and use of sentences and grammatical structures of increasing complexity (e.g., compound sentences, complex sentences, relative clauses).
Demonstrate knowledge of research-based strategies and best practices for promoting students’ understanding and use of grade-level instructional language, including terminology and sentence structures used to label and describe people, things, places, and locations and to name, describe, and explain actions, directions, positions, sequences, locations, and categories (e.g., colors, shapes, textures).
Explore critical issues pertaining to the ways in which language, culture (and society) transacts with literacy development todays diverse classrooms.

Guidelines:
This assignment will be approximately 2 pages.
You will reflect on something you have observed in your work and/or practice-based experience and relate it to the content on these sites. Your faculty may provide you with additional guiding questions.
Please submit utilizing APA format .
Be sure to include a citation for any materials you utilized (textbook, internet source, etc.).

Criteria
Score
Reflection

Distinguished – Comprehensively and clearly shares detailed information from work and/or practice-based experience and strongly relates experience to the course content.

Accomplished Adequately shares information from work and/or practice-based experience and strongly relates experience to the course content.

Proficient Somewhat shares information from work and/or practice-based experience and relates experience to the course content.

Developing Attempts to share information from work and/or practice-based experience and attempts to relate experience to the course content.
Elements are missing.

Improvement Needed The submission is non-existent or lacks the components as described in the assignment directions.

Comments:

100
Grammar, Spelling, & Mechanics

Distinguished Displays meticulous comprehension and organization of syntax and mechanics, such as spelling and grammar. Written work contains no errors and is very easy to understand. Suggested page length is met.

Accomplished D isplays comprehension and organization of syntax and mechanics, such as spelling and grammar. Written work contains only a few minor errors and is mostly easy to understand. Suggested page length is met.

Proficient D isplays basic comprehension of syntax and mechanics, such as spelling and grammar. Written work contains a few errors which may slightly distract the reader. Suggested page length may not be met.

Developing F ails to display basic comprehension of syntax or mechanics, such as spelling and grammar. Written work contains major errors which distract the reader. Suggested page length is not met.

Improvement Needed The submission is non-existent or lacks the components as described in the assignment directions.

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