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//**Opportunities and Reminders: **//

Wednesday Workday
Come in to make-up work, get ahead on assignments, or work on your TAFE competitions and contests.

= ** // Monday // **  = Due This Week:
 * Info. Management - Tubs and Dropbox grading on Thursday and Friday. Attach grading sheet (you've graded) with tape to tub. Place in front corner of room.
 * Attendance Log
 * Interview with Principal
 * Introduction Rubric (you grade)
 * Introduction to Your Class
 * Blog about Initiative
 * Any other outstanding work

Review of iPad Use at Field Site Schools - Listen to the guidelines to determine how you can make the most of instruction using iPads in your classroom. What are the rules for checking them out? What are the guidelines for the students who are using them?

How do teachers decide what to teach? What are the standards that they have to follow? Take a look below and learn how to plan activities and lessons that stand out in the classroom.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Each state's education agency develops a set of objectives and goals for the classes taught within the schools in that state. Texas has a set of objectives for every class that can be taught in public schools. These objectives are called Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills or TEKS. Open the link below and take a look at the TEKS for this class.

[|Education and Training TEKS]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">On individual index cards, identify three TEKS in this course that have been covered. List an activity that covered each TEKS you selected.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Example: 1C - demonstrate personal characteristics needed by teaching and training professionals. (Students participated in the Image Scrimmage which had them exhibit skills in public speaking, presentation, and responding professionally to questions.)

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">What will I need to know about the TEKS? How can I use these at my field site?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">You will use the the TEKS as a starting point to plan learning activities, lesson and educational units for the students in your classroom.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Navigate to the TEKS:


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Open the BISD webpage []
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Select "For Staff"
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Select "Texas Education Agency" (Right side under Other Resources)
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">(Right Side) Select "How Do I ..." Find Curriculum Standards? (TEKS)
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Scroll down page to TEKS by Chapter or TEKS by Grade if you intern at an elementary school. Look through the TEKS for your grade level. Identify the section which corresponds to the subject your students are studying while you are at your field site. Example: If your students are in 3rd grade and do science and reading while you are at your field site campus, find the TEKS that correspond to 3rd grade math and science.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Try to find one TEKS that corresponds to what the children were doing in the classroom during your first few days at your field site classroom.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Bookmark the TEA website as a favorite on your MacBook. Download the TEKS for your class and save in DropBox. You will be them more!

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Planning Activities
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Now identify the topic/concept you are studying in your classroom.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Find the TEKS for your age group/content area that goes with that concept/topic.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Search for activities that fit your TEKS. Look at the following sites that may help you. See //<span style="background-color: #a2fbfb; color: #0dc95f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Lesson Plan Resources //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;"> on the navigation menu on the left.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Time to Teach

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Use the form provided to investigate what you will be studying during the time you are at your field site during the 3rd and 4th six weeks. Ask your field site teacher to verify (initial) that what you have identified is on target. Turn in on Friday.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5;">Year II Interns - Plan a lesson (use lesson plan form) and teach to your class. Sign up on the calendar for a date for your teacher (Kallas/Stevens) to observe your lesson.



[[image:school bus.jpeg align="left"]]// Tuesday and Wednesday //
<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Years I and II - Visit Your Field Site Campus
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Continue working with students individually, in small groups, or as a large group.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Assist your teacher with planning and preparation.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Interview your principal about his/her expectations of interns if you have not done so.

// Thursday //
// Discover Your Inner Teacher With Discovery Education //

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Set up an account in Discovery Education following directions given in class.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">[|Discovery Education]


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5;">Navigate throughout the website following the guide of your EAT teacher.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Visit BoardBuilder and determine how you can use this as a teaching tool and as a device to create learning stations and lessons.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">It's time to plan!

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Break into table groups by grade/content area. Follow the directions of your EAT teacher for doing so.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">As a group, plan activities and search for resources that will fit into the 3rd six weeks and the 4th six weeks. You should all be talking and sharing as you come across items that will work for your group.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Place your items on your personal Discovery Education Board Builder so that you can access them easily.

//** Friday **//
<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Year I <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Continue populating your Board Builider in Discovery Education by searching for activities and resources that would work for the topic/content covered in the 3rd six weeks.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Year II <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Begin working on a lesson you will teach during the 3rd six weeks. Use the lesson plan form found above (See Monday)

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">TAFE Competitors
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Work on your region/state/national entry.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Thoroughly read the guidelines for your competition.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Begin on your competition activity.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">ELF testers - take the practice test and see how you do. See navigation bar on left. Prepare study guides from the Teaching textbook.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Finish your blog about Initiative