TE 408: 1St Lesson Plan and Report s2

TE 408: Requirements for Individual Websites During your internship year, you will be expected to maintain a website that will be a centerpiece of your teaching plans and materials, and communication between MSU instructors, field instructors, and mentors, as well as with students, parents, and the broader community. During this semester, you will continue developing this website – moving from a collection of pages toward a means of presenting your teaching plans and materials. A major part of this involves the manipulation and management of your pages as a single, coherent site.

The main aspects of the assignment requirements include the implementation of WebPlans1 (a consistent organizational system for presenting your teaching plans and materials, including your three-day mini-unit from this semester), and a site map (to facilitate navigation of your site. You'll still have many of the same requirements from last semester, but your energy will be focused on improvement and expansion of your pages.

Assignment Requirements

Due: BY MIDNIGHT THE THURSDAY OF Finals Week Website with multiple template-based pages:

* Site map page * Introduction Page * Resume (Word, PDF, or HTML document) * "Philosophy" statement (teaching philosophy or purpose page) * Collection of links specific to science/science teaching websites (at least 3 in addition to what you had for 407); not just the linked URL, but a brief description of how each connects to specific Benchmarks * Information page about your upcoming field placement (if applicable) -- links to mentor's and/or school's website, information about courses, etc. * Presentation of three-day mini-unit (from TE 408) in WebPlan format (Unit page containing Big Ideas, EPE, and Objectives; Long-term week/unit/topic page; Daily calendar page containing general outline of plans for each day; Resources linked throughout) - See examples of this layout from former teacher candidates here: http://www.msu.edu/course/te/407/FS05Sec3/te408/sample_sites.htm

1Webplans contain a long-term calendar (for the quarter, semester or year), depending upon the structure at your placement school next year), Unit Pages (i.e., your Clarifying Goals for the unit topic--Big Ideas, EPE, and objectives) and a Lesson Log (which contains your weekly lesson pages). Each lesson on the lesson page should include, at a minimum, the topic, what activities/assessents will be done in class, what assignments are due that day, and what that day’s homework will be. (THe idea here is that students who are absent or parents could access these pages to see what they or their child has missed.) The most efficient way to organize all of this this is to have a table in which one column indicates the week of the semester and another has the unit being taught. The viewer should be able to click on any given week and be taken to that week’s daily lesson plans, and click on the unit title and be taken to the clarifying goals page for that unit. Two good examples of such a structure are from Stephanie Shepard and Ann O’Donnell from our last secondary science cohort: http://www.msu.edu/%7Eshepar52/WebPlans.htm http://www.msu.edu/%7Eodonne68/plans.htm

Mechanics: * Must be accessible as your index page * WebPlan pages must be in sample format * Images (at least 2) must be included * No broken links * Clarity of navigation * Tested for consistency in multiple browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, etc.)

Aesthetics:

* Page content is managed and organized (e.g., layout uses tables, limited empty space) * Color schemes are complementary (default: use placement school website scheme) * Visual clarity of text and information

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