Capstone Seminar: Day 1

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Capstone Seminar Day 1

• Deliberative Thinking

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A Taste

• Go to the following website
• http//www36.homepage.villanova.edu/kimberly.dall
  as/Kimmy.html

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Todays Purpose

• Introduction to the seminar.
• Discussion of 3 areas for reflection cognitive,
  pedagogical, and moral development as educators.
• Discussion of teaching standards.
• Introduction to teaching portfolios.

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• We all acknowledge, in words at least, that
  ability to think is highly important it
  emancipates us from merely impulsive and merely
  routine activity. Put in positive terms,
  thinking enables us to direct our activities with
  foresight and to plan according to ends-in-view,
  or purposes of which we are aware. It enables us
  to act in deliberate and intentional fashion to
  attain future objects or to come into command of
  what is now distant and lacking. It enables us
  to know what we are about when we act. It
  converts action that is merely appetitive, blind,
  and impulsive into intelligent action.
• Dewey, J. (1964). Why reflective thinking must be
  an educational aim. In R. D. Archambault (Ed.),
  John Dewey on education Selected writings (pp.
  212-228). New York The Modern Library

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Capstone Seminar Purpose

• Deliberative thinking on achievements and
  professional development
• Cognitive
• Pedagogical
• Moral
• Deliberative thinking on achievements and
  professional development related to policy
  standards for beginning teachers.
• Employment!

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Clarify Terms

• Write an activity in which a teacher may engage
  that could be classified as
• cognitive
• pedagogical
• moral
• Goal Reflect on your growth and achievements as
  a beginning teacher using these 3 lenses.

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Standards

• Questions well address
• Why have standards for teachers?
• What is INTASC?
• What do the INTASC standards mean?
• What do standards have to do with my doing a
  portfolio?

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Why have standards for teachers?

• Belief Quality teachers are necessary for
  student learning. (NBPTS)
• Need for codified knowledge Shared viewsof
  what constitutes professional teaching (INTASC)

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What is INTASC?

• Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support
  Consortium
• Begun in late 80s by CT and CA to share learning
  about assessment and support, with link to
  Shulmans work for NBPTS
• NBPTS experienced INTASC novice
• Group comprised of teachers, teacher educators,
  members of state departments of education.

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INTASC

• Core Principles meant to be fluid.
• Subject Specific Principles.
• http//www.ccsso.org/projects/Interstate_New_Teach
  er_Assessment_and_Support_Consortium/Projects/Stan
  dards_Development/
• Knowledge, Dispositions, Performances
• Currently 34 states are part of INTASC

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What do the Standards Mean?

• A Tale of Three Teachers
• Bumper Sticker Activity

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Bumper Sticker

• Define in a phrase of lt 5 words
• 1-2
• 3-4
• 5-6
• 7-8
• 9-10

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What do standards have to do with my doing a
portfolio?

• Portfolio will be vehicle for you to demonstrate
• Deliberative thinking on achievements and
  professional development
• Cognitive
• Pedagogical
• Moral
• Deliberative thinking on achievements and
  professional development related to policy
  standards for beginning teachers.

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Questions to think about regarding moral
development

• How is teaching a moral activity?
• What do you value? How will you treat students
  who have different values?
• What is the purpose of education?
• What are you responsible for as a teacher? How
  will you fulfill your responsibilities?

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Jackies Journal

• What does Jackie value?
• What are her responsibilities?
• What actions should she take?
• What are possible consequences of those actions?

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Not to be a broken record, but

• Importance of Deliberative/ ReflectiveThinking

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Portfolio Requirements

• Teaching philosophy
• Artifacts and Reflections for 10 INTASC
  principles
• Achievement and growth cognitive, pedagogical,
  moral
• Future Goals
• Resume
• Alignment
• Uniqueness

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Resources

• Samples
• TaskStream
• Websites
• http//www10.homepage.villanova.edu/deborah.schuss
  ler/
• EDU 7321 link
• Portfolio Links

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Looking Forward

• Save artifacts.
• Next meeting Beginning Spring semester.
• Read
• Campbell, D. M., Cignetti, P. B., Melenyzer, B.
  J., Nettles, D. H.,  Wyman, R. M. (2004) How to
  develop a professional portfolio A manual for
  teachers. Boston Allyn and Bacon.
• Technical aspects of creating portfolios
• Look at samples online