Late work will be penalized.

Reflection on teaching/activity experience:   After you have presented you activity demonstration, critically reflect on that experience by writing a one to two page summary. Focus your reflection using the following questions:

1) When did you feel most connected, engaged, affirmed as a teacher?
2) When did you feel most disconnected, disengaged, or bored as a teacher?
3) What part caused you the greatest anxiety, distress, discomfort or regret?
4) What took you most by surprise, caught you off guard, or made you unexpectedly happy?
5) What would you do differently if you had the chance to do it again?
6) What caused you to feel the most proud about your experience?

Learning Portfolio:   You are to compile a learning portfolio--a cumulative record of your experience of learning in this course. You will need to document, in any way you think is appropriate and supportable, what and how you are learning in this course. This assignment is a way of helping you to recognize your strengths, weaknesses, inclinations, and habits as a learner; it is not an assessment tool. Hopefully this will assist you in understanding your future students better. This portfolio must include the following elements:

1) A description of your contributions and involvement in class activities and discussions. What roles did you play (give examples)? Analyze the level(s) and extent of involvement you engaged in. Describe and/or give examples of how you added or distracted from class activities. Include any other information you feel is relevant.

2) An analysis of what your strengths and weaknesses as a learner are. What activities (in and out of class) seemed to come easily to you, to be enjoyed, and to be well received by others? What classroom activities, content, or skills do you think you could help a student new to this class learn? What capacities did you notice in other learners that you wish you had? What tasks seemed to give you the greatest difficulty or to take up most of your time? Which of your skills and capacities do you think need most work if you are to get more out of a similar course similar in the future?

3) A summary of your learning in this class. What can you do now, and what do you know now, that you couldn=t do and didn=t know when you first came into this course? What was your most important realization concerning the subject matter of the course? Why did you judge this to be a particular importance to you? What was the most important skill you learned? Again, what was it that was so significant about this skill? What is the primary learning that you feel you need to know more about in this area of study?

4) Analysis of the effectiveness of the course from your perspective as a learner in the areas of content, methods and activities, and the way in which your work was evaluated. What should be dropped (and why), what should be kept at all costs (and why), and what should be added (and why) in all three areas? What would be the most important advice you would give to me on how to design, conduct, and evaluate the course next time it=s offered?

5) A reflection on how your experiences as a learner will affect your own teaching. What things will you do differently in your work as a result of spending this quarter learning new skills and knowledge? What things have you decided you must add to your teaching, and what things are you determined to eliminate, as a result of having analyzed yourself as a learner over these weeks?