Context For Learning

Names of Team Members: ​Cassidy Bowron, Blake Destefano, Michele Anderson, Elizabeth Dillard About the School Where You Are Teaching 1.​ ​List any special features of your school or classroom setting (e.g., charter, co-teaching, themed magnet, remedial course, honors course) that will affect your teaching and management. Honors Courses offered in each subject 2.​ ​Describe any district, school, or cooperating teacher requirements or expectations that might affect your planning or delivery of instruction, such as required curricula, pacing plan, use of specific instructional strategies, interdisciplinary teaming, or standardized tests. Pacing Calendar Interdisciplinary Teaming Milestones GA Performance Standards

About the Class of your Field Experience Placement 1.​ ​What is the name of the class you are teaching? (For EDSM 3360, list ​all classes​ taught by your interdisciplinary team. For secondary teams, each individual team member should list the class they teach.) 6th Grade Science Math Language Arts Social Studies 2.​ ​What is the length of the course? ☐​One semester ☐​One year ☐​Other (please describe): 3.​ ​What is the class schedule (e.g., 50 minutes every day, 90 minutes every other day)? 50 minutes each day 4.​ ​Is there any ability grouping or tracking on your team/in your content area class? If so, please describe how it affects your class. No

5.​ ​List other resources (e.g., electronic whiteboard, graphing calculators, online resources, etc.) used for instruction by the members of the team. - SMART Boards - Graphing Calculators - Brainpop - GeoGebra - Plickard - Discovery Edu - Laptop Carts (Laptops 1-1 ratio) - “The Canvas LMS provides a seamless environment for students, teachers, and parents to access course content, assignments/assessments, grades, and attendance, along with the integration of additional technology tools such as OneDrive and Office 365. Students access Canvas using their network ID and password.” From Cherokee County Website - Galileo - USATestPrep - i-Ready - Read 180 - BrainPOP: BrainPOP Jr., BrainPOP, BrainPOP Espanol, BrainPOP ESL About the Students on your MG Team or Secondary Content Area Class (You can use demographics for your field placement school and generalize.) 6.​ ​Include information for the middle grades team as a whole, or for secondary areas, provide information for ​each content​ course taught by ​each individual​. Grade level Age range # of students on the team/in your class (males:females)

6th grade

11-12 125 students 25 per individual teacher per class period 58 males: 67 females

7.​ ​Complete the chart below to summarize required or needed supports, accommodations, or modifications for your students that will affect your instruction (consult with your CT). Consider English language learners, gifted students, students with IEPs or 504 plans, struggling readers,​and ​underperforming students or those with gaps in academic knowledge.​Use the school demographic data to extrapolate for the number of students in any one of your team’s classes.

Consider the variety of adolescents in each class who may require different strategies/supports or accommodations/modifications to instruction or assessment. ·​ ​English language learners ·​ ​Gifted students needing greater support or challenge ·​ ​Students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) or 504 plans ·​ ​Struggling readers ·​ ​Underperforming students or those with gaps in academic knowledge Learning Needs Category

# of Students

Supports, accommodations, modifications, and/or relevant IEP goals

Visually impaired, legally blind

1

Close monitoring, use audio text, get large print textbooks,individual document camera, sit at the front of the class

Struggling readers

25

Oral explanations for directions, extended time, sentence frames to support written responses

Gifted

44

Advanced content model, honors classes, scaffolding of assignments

ADD/ADHD

20

Differentiation, Moving around the class, additional time on assignments if needed

EL’s

10

Rosetta Stone access through the School Academic and Social Language Development using

the GADoe Standards Based Curriculum Differentiate Assignments based on proficiency

Underperforming Students

29

Required meeting with teacher/tutoring if below a certain grade is scored on a test Extra Communcation with parents