INTASC

Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium

Portfolio Evaluation

____The teacher intern uses an understanding of individual and group motivation and behavior to create a learning environment that encourages positive social interaction, active engagement in learning, and self-motivation.

• Creates a smoothly functioning learning community:
  According to The First Days of School by Wong, classroom management are "all things that a teacher does to organize students, space, time, and materials so that student learning can take place" (84). I was fortunate enough to have a cooperative teacher who had already established an effective classroom management. However, I had to maintain the functioning of the classroom once I took over duing my ten-week internship experience. One of the ways that I found to be most effective was through the assignment of student seating and enforcing the seating chart. Click here to view my teaching philosophy.

• 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.

• Constructivism in Education:
  I implemented the concepts that I learned as a result of constructivism throughout my internship experience to continiously build upon students' prior knowledge. I feel as though it is most beneficial for students to be able to tap into their prior knowledge in order to gain more insight and establish connections of history and other parts of social studies.