INTASC

Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium

Portfolio Evaluation

• Student Prior Knowledge & Experiences
  I had the most awesome of opportunities to sit down and talk one on one with some middle school students last fall before beginning my journey behind the desk. The purpose of this interview was to tap into students' prior knowledge to find out what in the world these students actually learned or remembered from their previous history and government classes.

• Cooperative Learning and Group Interaction
  I was always kind of weary about using group or paired work, let alone cooperative learning. However, over the course of my internship I found through thorough planning this type of strategy could work.

• Understanding students learn in different ways
  Students learn but in different ways. It was interesting to figure out ways to facilitate student learning by implementing various ways to mediate learning through visual means (movies and pictures), auditory (lecture and discussion), and kinesthetic (jigsaw activities & other cooperative learning opportunities.