(EDI 635) Development and Needs of Adolescents (GTC)
Common Course Assessment: Adolescent Research Project
Course Standards
INTASC Standard#2: The teacher understands how children learn and develop, and can
provide learning opportunities that support their intellectual, social, and personal
development.
Common Course Assessment: Research Project
Directions: Teacher will complete research and present findings on a contemporary issue
affecting how adolescents learn and develop For example, teacher may examine the role of
culture in the development of adolescents, explain how the social contexts of schools
influence adolescent development, and describe approaches to educating adolescents.
Teacher must research their topic and present findings in an interactive, interesting, and
purposeful presentation. Each teacher must provide a copy of their abstract and
bibliography for each student in the class. Teacher needs to discuss pertinent information
and implications to society, education system, and adolescents as it relates to development.
This presentation should only be thirty minutes in length while encouraging meaningful and
purposeful professional dialogue.
Rubric for Adolescent Research Project
Distinguished
Proficient
Progressing
Unsatisfactory
(3)
(2)
(1)
(0)
Knowledge
Teacher
displays
knowledge of
adolescents’
developmental
characteristics,
exceptions,
and extent to
which students
follow
patterns.
Teacher displays
full
understanding of
developmental
characteristics of
adolescents as
well as
exceptions to
patterns.
Teacher displays
generally
accurate
knowledge of
developmental
characteristics of
adolescents.
Teacher displays
little
understanding of
the
developmental
characteristics of
adolescents.
Dispositions
Teacher
displays
knowledge of
how family,
peers, and
society
influence
adolescents
and knowledge
for each
adolescent.
Teacher displays
knowledge of
how family,
peers, and
society influence
adolescents and
recognizes the
value of their
knowledge.
Teacher
recognizes the
value of
understanding
how families,
peers, and
society influence
adolescents.
Teacher is unable
to recognize the
value of
understanding
how families,
peers, and society
influence
adolescents.
Performances
Teacher
displays
knowledge of a
Teacher displays
knowledge of
effective
Teacher
recognizes the
value of knowing
Teacher is unable
to recognize the
value of knowing
Elements
variety of
effective
strategies and
interventions
for helping
adolescents
and is able to
apply to
individual
adolescents
within the
school
structure.
strategies and
interventions for
helping
adolescents and
recognizes the
value of the
knowledge.
effective
strategies and
interventions for
helping
adolescents.
effective
strategies and
interventions for
helping
adolescents.
Knowledge
Teacher
displays
knowledge of
the impact
socioeconomic,
gender,
culture, and
other contexts
has on
adolescent
development
and the extent
to which
students follow
patterns.
Teacher displays
full
understanding of
the impact
socioeconomic,
gender, culture,
and other
contexts have on
adolescent
development as
well as
exceptions to
patterns.
Teacher displays
generally
accurate
knowledge of the
impact
socioeconomic,
gender, culture,
and other
contexts has on
adolescent
development.
Teacher is unable
to display
generally accurate
knowledge of the
impact
socioeconomic,
gender, culture,
and other
contexts has on
adolescent
development.
Oral Language
Teacher
displays
correct and
expressive
spoken
language with
well chosen
vocabulary
that enriches
presentation.
Teacher displays
spoken language
that is clear and
correct with
chosen
vocabulary.
Teacher displays
speaker
language that is
audible.
Vocabulary is
correct but is
limited.
Teacher in unable
to display speaker
language that is
audible.
Vocabulary is
sometimes
incorrect and
limited.
Abstract and
Bibliography
Teacher
provides a
clear abstract
and
bibliography
that contains
at least 10
references.
Teacher provides
a clear abstract
and bibliography
with 5-9
references.
Teacher provides
an abstract a
bibliography with
several errors
and fewer than 5
references.
Teacher is unable
to provide an
abstract and
bibliography.