Sign Off

I’ll post the sign-off now as I see some of you are getting finished.  Finish all prompts tonight. (I’ll keep watching/reading/lurking).

We had another lively night of thinking and interacting.  You’ve come a long way (as DL astutely noted), not only in depth of thinking and dialoging, but also in technological nimbleness.

Your assignments for next week will be coming to your email Inbox tonight.  While there are no research topics (we’re done with those!), you will find the schedule by which you will present your lesson demonstrations tagged into that communiqué.

Thanks for making me a better educator. Your minds “push” me.

Launch

Back by popular demand is the prompt-dumping format in which I give you all the prompts and let you go at it.

The last prompt will will be entered around 9:00 p.m.; all others will be in your hands/court from the git-go.

Invocation

Share with us a “famous” person you admire greatly, from a spiritual perspective.  Tell us why.

Prompt #1 Individual lesson plans query

Do a search of the Internet for at least three different examples of lesson plan formats, and/or use any examples you have of same. Respond as follows:

a)      In what three ways are all alike in relation to the type of components they contain?

b)     In what ways are they different?

Prompt #2 Slides

Read carefully all slide presentations.

Identify the three presentations that seem to be most useful in helping you become a better educator and tell us why.

Prompt #3 Textbook Discussion

Take a few minutes to review Chapter 13 of Educational Psychology. If you were gonna take two thoughts/ideas from that chapter and make a couple of bumper stickers out of them, what would those bumper stickers say?

Prompt #4 Slides

Pick any two of tonight’s slide presentations: identify two similarities and two differences.

Prompt #5 PDAS Review & Discussion

The PDAS System is how teachers are “judged.”  At the link below is the Scoring Criteria Guide by which principals are taught to assess the proficiency level of teachers in each of the eight PDAS domains.  Peruse this guide:

http://www5.esc13.net/pdas/docs/forms/ScoringCriteriaGuide.pdf

What is the most notable thing you see in the Guide?

What is the scariest thing you see in the Guide?

What is the most comforting thing you see in the Guide?

Prompt #6 Slides

Pick two presentations and compliment their authors, specifically citing the reason for your admiration.

Prompt #7 Slides

Select one slide presentation and ask a professionally oriented question of TWO of the presenters (Yes/No questions are verboten!).  If someone asks you a question, you gotta answer it.

Prompt #8 Textbook Discussion

Take a few minutes to review Chapter 14 of Educational Psychology.  Identify the sentence from the chapter that seems to resonate most with you.  Quote that sentence as your response (with the page number).  NO commentary; just quote the sentence.

Prompt #9 Slides

From the slide presentations identify and explain the newest/bestest learning for you.

Prompt #10 Course evaluation

Access your Wayland email account or Blackboard account and follow the instructions for completing the EDUC course evaluation.  Once you have finished with the evaluation, respond to this post with one word:  DONE!

Prompt #11 Collective lesson plan “mush”

Review the findings of your classmates regarding the lesson plans prompt earlier this evening.  From that synthesize the elements that you deem will be important for you to include in the five-continuous-lesson-plan assignment (that is one of your assignments for the upcoming week)?