You will design, plan, and create a bulletin board located either in the cooperating teacher’s room or in the hallway near the room. You will need to discuss the bulletin board concept with the cooperating teacher in order to design a board that is appropriate. You may also use materials from the cooperating teacher or from Mrs. Howard; however, the Teacher Cadet must do ALL of the work. Mrs. Howard has several Bulletin Board help books. You may see her if you need to borrow one. The Bulletin Board should be left up for display for at least a week. When the board has been completed, you will want to take a picture of it to have to use in your portfolio. The Bulletin Board project should be completed by Nov.26.
When you have completed the Board, please let Mrs. Howard know so that she can come by to grade it.
The Board will count as one major grade.
During your field experience time, you will still be responsible for two emails per week. Your week will begin on Monday and end on Friday at 3:40. Each email will be worth 100 points on a daily grade. There will be no beginning question. All emails will come from you. Mrs. Howard will reply, but her reply will not be necessary for your second email response. Email Mrs. Howard: jenniferhoward1976@yahoo.com
. You may base your emails on the following ideas, but are not limited to them: (You may use these ideas more than once.)
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Describe the classroom setting. How is it decorated? Is it organized? Is it colorful and pleasing to the eye? What would you change about it? Explain your answers.
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Describe your cooperating teacher and his/her teaching style.
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Discuss the classroom management techniques used. Are they working? How could they be improved?
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Discuss the makeup of the classroom. How many students are present? What is the breakup of the students? (Comment on social issues such as: race, sex, apparent financial status, grade level and academic level)
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What tasks are you completing? How do you feel about the job that you are doing?
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Comment on the lessons that you are teaching or planning. What difficulties are you having?
What is getting easier to you?
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How did you go about designing and constructing your bulletin board? How difficult was the process? How long did it take?
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Comment on your feelings about the field experience. Is it harder than you thought? Is it easier than you thought? Were you prepared for it? What other practices could be done to better prepare you for the experience? What improvements are you making?
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Open topics…writing on any classroom experience that you deem important, funny, or sad.
During your first view days in the Field Experience, you will need to complete either a Learning
Style Assessment or an Interest Inventory of your entire class. If you are working with more than one class, complete the assignment using all of the students with whom you are working. You will compile your information, analyze it, and then develop a plan, a teaching plan , to incorporate your findings into your lessons with your students. The plan is due November 19. The plan will be worth one major grade.
Be sure to keep all of your information to put in your Portfolio.

Bulletin Board Assignment
Rubric
Name: ________________________________
Board Theme: __________________________
_____ Age Appropriate (15) _____ Neat (20) _____ Colorful (15)
_____ Appropriate Theme (20) _____ Attractive (20)
_____ Appealing Layout Display Student Work/Achievements _____ (10)
Assessment Assignment
Rubric
Name: _________________________________________
Assessment: ___________________________
I. _____ Complete the inventory with students (10)
II. _____ Analyzing of Information (30)
III. _____ The Plan: Sections 1-4 (50)
IV. _____ Grammar and Mechanics (10)
Interest/Learning Style Assignment
1. You will give your class(es) either an interest inventory or a learning styles questionnaire.
You can decide which one you would like to give your students. Think through the age/grade level of your students and what assessment would be most valuable to you, as a teacher.
2. Administer your assessment to all of your students.
3. Combine your results and analyze them to find out important information about your students.
4. Develop a teaching plan to help use the results:
Section 1 : Describe your class(es)…total number of students, dem ographics, academic ability, number of IEP’s or 504 plans.
Section 2: What are the results of your survey? What information did you find by completing the assessment? Break your results into percentages. What is most popular? What is least popular? Look for trends among races and genders.
**Section 3: This is the BIGGEST, most IMPORTANT section. What will you do in planning your lessons to incorporate this information? What will you make sure your lessons include?
Section 4: How will you use the information from the assessment to build a rapport with your students?
*Type the results in MLA format
*Grammar and content will be graded
*Final Copy should be professional in appearance