BranchED Survey of Content Knowledge and Experience Texas Educators

This work has been created to supplement a beginning teacher educator course entitled Survey of Content and Experience for Texas Educators.   These units provide an understanding of the teacher candidates’ content, discipline, and related pedagogy inclusive of state standards and certification requirements. Students will engage in tasks that will assess their aptitude, skill, knowledge, and experience.

Material Type: Homework/Assignment

Author: Lourdes Viloria

Who Am I and How Can I Contribute

Students will learn to speak to a group and listen while others speak. Students will learn about similarities and differences within the classroom and with our families. (Extension will be to make symbolic flag for families which leads into the US Symbols lesson). Students will learn the meaning of strengths and struggles and begin to understand what their own strengths and struggles are. Students will learn how they can help others in the class throughout the year, as well as others in their families. Students will produce a class quilt of pictures of working collaborative to help each other.

Material Type: Lesson, Module

Author: Alisa Cook

High-incidence Disabilities

High-Incidence Disabilities are disabilities that are more often seen in the regular education classroom. This resource is intended to be used by pre-service teacher who are learning about disabilities in the classroom and how to make accommodations for all learners. 

Material Type: Assessment, Case Study, Homework/Assignment, Lecture Notes, Module

Author: Jeanne Burth

Writing Lesson Plans

This module will assist the pre-service teacher in writing lesson plans using the Direct Instruction method. The module is designed for Early Childhood Education, but it can easily be adapted to secondary education majors. Each section of the lesson plan is detailed and, along with his/her classroom, the instructor is encouraged to develop a group lesson plan. As each section of the lesson plan is taught, the class will add that part to the group plan. A blank template is included in the first section. 

Material Type: Module

Author: Jeanne Burth

Constructivist Approach to Lesson Planning

This Source helps the reader to frame the lesson plan based on the 5E approach of lesson planning.

Material Type: Module

Author: Dr. Parmvir Singh Sandhu

DAIRY FORMAT LESSON PLAN

Dairy format lesson plan helps the teachers to prepare their lesson plan in proper format. it helps them to plan everything whatever the teacher wants to teach in the class, method and also strategies are discussed.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Puneet Kaur

Thingfully — Lesson Plans for the Internet of Things

Thingfully is a growing platform of lesson plans for the Internet of Things.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan

Author: Bridget McGraw

Assignments for Strategies and Instruction

Several assignments are used for this course, including writing lesson plans, writing a unit plan, creating supplemental items for the unit plan, and designing a classroom management plan. In my course, I assign two units with three lesson plans included in each unit. This is designed for Early Childhood, but it can be edited for secondary. 

Material Type: Module

Author: Jeanne Burth

Content Standards: Connecting Standards-Based Curriculum to Instructional Planning

Teachers are required to implement the adopted content standards and to make the connection between standards-based curriculum and the planning and designing of lessons to ensure that students meet expected content standards. This Module serves as a basic guide for the process (est. completion time: 2.5 hours).

Material Type: Module

Facilitating Project-Based Learning

A unit of study for teachers to consider some of the challenges raised by adopting a PBL approach, and how these can be overcome. The objective is to look at ways of dealing with the challenges and fears of PBL projects.

Material Type: Unit of Study

Author: National Center for Educational Resource Development (NCERD)

ICT Essentials for Teachers - Managing ICT for PBL

This is a unit of study whose competency is to Manage student project-based learning activities in a technology-enhanced environment to support collaboration.

Material Type: Unit of Study

Author: Rwanda Education Board

Pre-service teacher Introduction to OER

A brief introduction to open educational resources specifically designed for PK-12 pre-service teachers. This lesson includes a slide deck and lesson plans. There are also questions for pre- and post-survey (not quiz) at the end of the lesson plan to establish awareness and impact for lesson.

Material Type: Module

Authors: Liz Thompson, Brian Sullivan, Jessica Lantz

ICT Essentials for Teachers - ICT to Support Traditional Pedagogy

This is a unit of study whose competency is to Incorporate appropriate ICT activities into lesson plans so as to support student acquisition of school subject matter knowledge and use presentation software and digital resources to support instruction and problem solving in the classroom.

Material Type: Unit of Study

Author: Rwanda Education Board

Curriculum, Assessment and Management 1 Open Resource Adaptations

Curriculum, Assessment and Management 1 Open Resource Adaptations ED 622 Curriculum, Assessment and Management I Course will help students to develop assessment, instructional and management strategies in the planning, implementation and evaluation of instruction in various classroom settings using the framework of teacher work sampling. The basics of lesson planning, instructional methods, assessment planning, differentiation and classroom management will be covered.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Melanie Landon-Hays

Education 320: Teaching PE & Health, Elementary Education (English)

This course was developed to satisfy the California Commission of Teaching credentialing requirements for teacher candidates. The class provides opportunities for candidates to learn how to teach the basic and essential fundamentals of physical education for K-6th grade students. The central knowledge is about children’s motor skill development along with the emotional and social aspects related to physical activity. Teachers will learn the key aspects of a physical education lesson, which include a warm-up activity, the lesson plan (skill development and game applications), and closure. As a total lesson, at least half the time is spent in moderate to vigorous activity. The course also addresses classroom management techniques, safety and liability, kinesiology, and instructional techniques. It incorporates discussions of multicultural aspects and special needs populations, and concludes with ideas for integrating physical education with academic subjects such as mathematics, language, and natural and social sciences.

Material Type: Full Course

Author: Jeff Johnston

Planning a Unit of Study

This module includes an overview of planning a unit of study. Detail is given to writing goals, writing essential questions, designing a test and blueprint, and supplementing the unit. 

Material Type: Module

Author: Jeanne Burth

Module 1 - Diverse Environments for Learners

Context for instructors Ed 446D is a required course for teacher candidates who are completing the teacher preparation program at my institution Ed 446 D introduces the multicultural perspective and prepares teachers with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to work with a diverse group of learners. This is a required course for education majors. Teacher candidates will be evaluated on their engagement with assignments that give them the opportunity to demonstrate the aptitudes of culturally responsive educators. A certain level of pedagogical clarity will develop as teacher candidates learn how to take up critical education in order highlight opportunities for typically marginalized student populations. The content of this course requires teacher candidates to explore their positionality in relation to others’, address personal biases that may affect their teaching, and begin building cultural competencies. Teacher candidates will be expected to participate in classroom discourse that is reflective of and respectful toward diverse perspectives.

Material Type: Module, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Yuliana Kenfield

ACESSE Resource G - Learning to See the Resources Students Bring to Sense-Making

Overview: In this workshop, we will build our capacity to identify the range of intellectual resources students use as they make sense of phenomena. We will first explore how equity and justice relate to culture-based approaches to pedagogy—and then focus on how to identify and leverage the resources students use in moments of sensemaking. This resource can also be used by individuals wanting to learn how equity involves promoting the rightful presence of all students across scales of justice, desettling inequities, and supporting expansive learning pathways. This workshop provides participants with an opportunity to explore important theoretical ideas by exploring examples of how learners engage in diverse sense-making. Participants will learn about some of the challenges that less expansive learning environments can cause for learners from non-dominant communities. This resource is estimated to take between 161-268 minutes (2 ⅔ - 4 ¾ hours), depending on the choices of the facilitator in scenario selection.

Material Type: Module

Authors: Hank Clark, Philip Bell, Deb Morrison, Gina Tesoriero, Abby Rhinehart

12 Ways to bring STEM to Your Classroom

From Getting Smart, here are 12 ways to start teaching STEM Want more STEM experiences for your students but don’t know where to start? Want to infuse art into science and boost STEAM experiences? Before exploring how to do STEM, let’s define what it is. Everybody teaches science and math—STEM adds technology and engineering to the equation; STEAM adds art. Common elements of quality STEM learning include: • Design-focus: using design tools and techniques to attack big problems or opportunity (challenge-based, problem-based learning). • Active application: applying knowledge and skills to real-world situations and constructing or prototyping solutions to challenges (maker, project-based learning). • Integration: real world problems aren’t limited to a discipline—solutions almost always draw from many fields.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Greg Young

21st Century Teaching and Learning

This online course is designed to help anyone teach – and learn – with a 21st century approach to knowledge and teaching. Lesson 1 of the course shares important evidence we now have about the working of the brain, that is meaningful for all subjects and ages – and lives. We then move to thinking together about the data filled world in which we live, to prepare students for their future in a world of data. The aim of a data science approach is not to add new standards or content to your teaching, it is about interacting with your content in a data science way – that is fun, interesting and creative. In the course you will experience lessons that you can take and use with your students, and you will see lots of classroom and lesson examples. Whether you are a kindergarten teacher, a high school history or maths teacher, an administrator or parent, or someone just curious about data science, there will be ideas for you.

Material Type: Full Course, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: YouCubed