Mathematics Teaching Degree WGU -in progress!

[teacher2]

So after nearly two months of silence I am updating my thread!

Just a little info about my school placement,  We have 3 classes that are 95 minute blocks and a Tier 2 RTI class everyday. In all, we have a total of  92 kids. I am now entering my fourth week of student teaching and this is what my course load looks like for this Term.

•  Supervised Demonstration Teaching in Mathematics, Observations 1 and 2
• Supervised Demonstration Teaching in Mathematics, Observation 3 and Midterm
•  Supervised Demonstration Teaching in Mathematics, Observations 4 and 5
•  Supervised Demonstration Teaching in Mathematics, Observation 6 and Final
•  Professional Portfolio
•  Teacher Work Sample in Mathematics -edTPA
•  Cohort Seminar

For the Supervised Demonstration Teaching classes (12 CUS in all) , I am observed and evaluated by both my host teacher and a Clinical Supervisor. These observations are typically conducted while I am teaching a lesson. I am not required to submit anything other my lesson plans to the Clinical Supervisor or do course work -only pass the observation. But here is the catch:

"Though you may receive a passing grade on one or more of the segments, failure to receive a passing grade on all segments will result in a grade of Not Passed for ALL observation assessments. The 12 CUs for the observation and evaluation assessments may not be partially passed or partially failed. Should a single assessment receive a grade of Not Passed, all assessments previously “passed” will have the grade(s) converted to Not Passed."

But some good news is I passed my first Supervised Demonstration Teaching Observation with 3's and 4's on a 0-4 rubric. So I just have to pass my next one in order to pass the "Supervised Demonstration Teaching in Mathematics, Observations 1 and 2" course


I am currently working on my Professional Portfolio which has changed from the version of last year. I had worked on it over my term break but since then it has changed a little so am making tweaks to my work. Also getting my edTPA together but will post more on that later.

Another change that has happened in this term is with the Cohort Seminar course. In the Spring 2018 cohort, they required weekly reflection journals about particular concepts (Engagement Strategies, Culture and Diversity in the classroom and so forth). Also students participated in cohort calls every week.

When I re-enrolled this past July, they still had those loaded in my Taskstream account. So being the pro-active student that I am, I worked ahead and completed 6 weeks of journals and submitted them. Come to find out, they were changing the system and no longer require the weekly journals. Instead they have a Getting to know you journal and a Ethics Journal and a EdTPA Video Practice Journal. LOL I was very disappointed after working so hard to get so far ahead =). But the good news is I just submitted and passed my Ethics Journal this morning! Glad to have that done!