Practicum Teaching Strategies

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Practicum Teaching Strategies

• Ima Sample
• 07B242
• July 25, 200x

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Abstract

• Practicum students practice teaching skills 8
  hours a week for 12 weeks in a classroom setting.
  
• One day a week, students participate in a small
  group discussion about their practicum classroom
  experience.

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Abstract

• I have observed that group discussion are useful
  for disseminating information, answering student
  questions, and time for students to voice joys
  and difficulties.
• I would like group discussions to enhance
  teaching practice by having students use shared
  teaching strategies in their own teaching.
• This project is an endeavor to gather information
  on how much practicum students actually use
  group discussions to enhance their own teaching.

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QIC-Decide Model
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Question

• Area Practicum Student Teaching Practice
• Who to involve Practicum instructor and 8-12
  practicum students in instructors small group
• Expectations I would like group discussions to
  enhance teaching practice by having students use
  shared teaching strategies in their own teaching.

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Question

• What percent of teaching strategies shared in
  group discussions are used by group members in
  teaching practice?

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Information

• Consequences are low-moderate
• Decisions can be changed easily
• Effects of using shared teaching strategies could
  aid current experience and future professional
  growth
• Affects few people (8-12 people)
• Very few resources needed to implement

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Information

• Amount /type of data needed This project
  requires low rigor data. Few sources of data are
  needed with some objectivity, technical adequacy,
  and directness.

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Information

• I will collect a list of teaching strategies
  students share in group discussions.
• Student reflections, lesson plans, and instructor
  observations will document whether a student is
  implementing shared teaching strategies. This
  information will be gathered in a checklist
  format.
• Data will be collected for 4 weeks.

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Collect and Summarize
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Collect and Summarize

• Teaching Strategy Collection Sheet

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Collect and Summarize
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Collect and Summarize

• Teaching Strategy Collection Sheet

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Collect and Summarize
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Collect and Summarize
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Decide

• Interpret
• Some students may look as though they did not
  utilize the strategies shared in group (as with
  Mary) but when taking a closer look we see Mary
  shared 7 strategies compared with the 2 or 3
  strategies shared by other students.
• All students implemented 40 or fewer strategies.
  

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Decide

• Decision statement
• The question was What percent of teaching
  strategies shared in group discussions are used
  by group members in teaching practice.
• The answer is 75 of the shared strategies are
  used at least once.

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Decide

• Decision statement
• I know this because we collected the number of
  strategies shared in group and the number of
  times that strategy was used by practicum
  students.
• The data reflected the following characteristics
  there was a significant difference between the
  group as a whole and the individual students.
  (75 vs. -40) Over half of the students used
  25-30 of the strategies in their teaching.

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Decide

• Decision statement
• Differences in personal development, classroom
  placement, and type of strategy seem to play a
  part in the reason behind limited student
  implementation. I did expect more student to use
  shared strategies.

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Decide

• Next Step
• Share results with individual students.
• Run the same procedure for another 4 weeks.
• Does the type of strategy shared make a
  difference in implementation? Classroom
  management vs. content area?

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Wrap Up

• Questions?