Stephanie Wilmore

ED 420

Students: For each category, provide a brief description of nature and location of evidence. Assessors: For each category, highlight the appropriate descriptor (i.e. inadequate, emerging, proficient, distinctive)
1. Planning and Preparation
Emerging Criteria The candidate applies subject matter knowledge to develop lessons/units that: relate to state and/or district standards use varied instructional strategies are for varied developmental levels that represent levels of licensure address varied content areas (for ELC/ELM: math, science, language arts & social studies; for SED: varied disciplinary fields) use appropriate teaching and resource materials include provisions for individual students with particular learning needs include both formal and informal assessments that provide information about student learning, e.g. rubrics, tests, checklists, opportunities for students to self assess The candidate demonstrates the ability to effectively produce multi-media communication tools and can support her decisions for their use in enhancing student learning. Inadequate Proficient Distinctive Brief description of nature and location of evidence

Video & Description of Video: I teach a clock lesson in a kindergarten class at Luther Burbank, a shared writing lesson at College Park, and a rounding decimal lesson at Walt Whitman. -Location: flash drive in assessor folder & Video Evidence tab Interactive Read-Aloud: I teach a lesson on making predictions to a group of kindergarteners at College Park -Location: Communication tab Kindergarten Literacy Plan: A plan for employing balanced literacy including a personal philosophy of literacy learning, a description of the range of reading and writing behaviors, the role of the teacher in literacy learning, a classroom design for encouraging reading and writing, and a reflection piece including goal setting. -Location: Conceptualization tab Creative Drama Unit Plan: I planned a kindergarten 5-day unit integrated with creative drama to reach Common Core standards. -Location: Conceptualization tab

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The Lorax Social Studies Unit: I planned a month long unit for a 3rd/4th grade class that incorporates their environment and inquiry based learning. -Location: Coordination tab Apples Kindergarten Unit: I planned an integrated, developmentally appropriate unit plan on apples using varied instructional strategies -Location: Coordination tab Exceptional Learner Case Study: I conducted a case study in which I observed and analyzed a student with learning disabilities -Location: Diagnosis tab 4th Grade Literacy Plan: A plan for implementing balanced literacy including a personal philosophy of literacy learning, a description of the range of reading and writing behaviors, the role of the teacher, and the use of assessment. -Location: Diagnosis tab Intro to Fossils: Fossil lesson taught to 4th graders at Walt Whitman Elementary where students used movement to explain the process a fish goes through to become fossilized. -Location: Integrative Interaction Categories of Vertebrates: I planned a 1st grade inquiry based science unit that included the Next Generation Science Standards and informal/nonfictional text. -Location: Integrative Interaction tab Rationales for each piece of evidence -Location: Rationales that correlate with each piece of evidence

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2. Classroom Environment

Inadequate

Emerging

Criterion The candidate demonstrates the ability to apply social and cultural understanding in interpersonal situations by: designing learning experiences that best relate to the characteristics of individuals and groups perceiving and responding to elements in interaction, e.g. roles, developmental levels, culture, language, etc. describing how characteristics of individuals and groups influence teaching decisions

Proficient Distinctive Brief description of nature and location of evidence

Apples Kindergarten Unit: I planned an integrated, developmentally appropriate unit plan on apples using varied instructional strategies -Location: Coordination tab The Lorax Social Studies Unit: I planned a month long unit for a 3rd/4th grade class that incorporates their environment and inquiry based learning. -Location: Coordination tab Exceptional Learner Case Study: I conducted a case study in which I observed and analyzed a student with learning disabilities -Location: Diagnosis tab Senior Research: I conducted research on creative arts integration and analyzed how student learning was affected when integrated with core curriculum. - Location: Professional Development tab

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3. Instruction and Assessment

Emerging Criterion The candidate demonstrates the ability to accurately implement instruction and assess student learning by providing: samples of completed assessments in which the experiences used to assess student learning relate directly to the lesson/unit objective(s) self assessments that focus on student learning as a result of lessons taught in field placements feedback from cooperating teachers and Alverno supervisors

Inadequate

Proficient Distinctive Brief description of nature and location of evidence

Video & Description of Video: I teach a Clock Lesson in a kindergarten class at Luther Burbank, a shared writing lesson at College Park, and a rounding decimal lesson at Walt Whitman. -Location: flash drive in assessor folder & Video Evidence tab Feedback from Cooperating Teachers and FacultyEvaluations from my work in the field. -Location: Field Experience Kindergarten Literacy Plan: A plan for employing balanced literacy including a personal philosophy of literacy learning, a description of the range of reading and writing behaviors, the role of the teacher in literacy learning, a classroom design for encouraging reading and writing, and a reflection piece including goal setting. -Location: Conceptualization tab 4th Grade Literacy Plan: A plan for implementing balanced literacy including a personal philosophy of literacy learning, a description of the range of reading and writing behaviors, the role of the teacher, and the use of assessment. -Location: Diagnosis tab Intro to Fossils: Fossil lesson taught to 4th graders at Walt Whitman Elementary where students used movement to explain the process a fish goes through to become fossilized.

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-Location: Integrative Interaction

4. Professional Responsibilities and Reflection

Inadequate

Emerging

Criteria The candidate articulates how she has applied educational frameworks (e.g. Bloom, Piaget, Erikson, Maslow, Montessori, Cambourne, Gardner, Holdaway, Purkey, etc) and their influence on her teaching by stating the major aspects of selected theories in her own words and identifying where she has applied these theories. The candidate represents herself as a reflective practitioner by: showing, in rationales and self assessments, where modifications of her teaching have or should have taken place analyzing and articulating ways in which elements of diversity have influenced her planning, teaching, and assessing describing, in a letter to an ED 201 or AE 222 student, her growth in understanding and using the Wisconsin Teacher Standards and the Alverno Education Abilities limiting her choices of appropriate artifacts that provide evidence of an ability to synthesize the Wisconsin Teacher Standards and the Alverno Education Abilities including artifacts that address all 10 Wisconsin Teacher Standards and all 5 Alverno Education Abilities

Proficient Distinctive Brief description of nature and location of evidence

Letter to beginning Alverno Education students. -Location: Home tab Video & Description of Video: I teach a Clock Lesson in a kindergarten class at Luther Burbank, a shared writing lesson at College Park, and a rounding decimal lesson at Walt Whitman. -Location: flash drive in assessor folder & Video Evidence tab Kindergarten Literacy Plan: A plan for employing balanced literacy including a personal philosophy of literacy learning, a description of the range of reading and writing behaviors, the role of the teacher in literacy learning, a classroom design for encouraging reading and writing, and a reflection piece including goal setting. -Location: Conceptualization tab 4th Grade Literacy Plan: A plan for implementing balanced literacy including a personal philosophy of literacy learning, a description of the range of reading and writing behaviors, the role of the teacher, and the use of assessment. -Location: Diagnosis tab Rationales for each piece of evidence - Location: Rationales that correlate with each piece of

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evidence. Senior Research: I conducted research on creative arts integration and analyzed how student learning was affected when integrated with core curriculum. - Location: Professional Development tab

5. Oral and written communication

Inadequate Criteria

Emerging

Proficient Distinctive Brief description of nature and location of evidence

Consistently engaging audiences by using appropriate conventions, coherent structures, and effective style Accurately analyzing ones own ideas in relation to disciplinary/professional contexts Articulating meaningful relationships between disciplinary/professional frameworks and the selection of artifacts by explaining the Wisconsin Teacher Standards and the Alverno Education Abilities in her own words

Rationales for each piece of evidence - Location: Rationales that correlate with each piece of evidence. Senior Research: I conducted research on creative arts integration and analyzed how student learning was affected when integrated with core curriculum. - Location: Professional Development tab Letter to beginning Alverno Education students - Location: Home tab Interview- I conducted an interview with two kindergarten teachers as well as a special education teacher to expand my knowledge on how students learn best. -Location: Communication tab

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ORGANIZATIONAL CHART
Artifact/Evidence Interview Assignment Interactive Read-Aloud - Kindergarten Literacy Plan - Kindergarten Creative Drama Unit Plan The Lorax Social Studies Unit Plan Apples Kindergarten Unit Plan Exceptional Learner Phase II Literacy Plan 4th Grade Categories of Vertebrates Introduction to Fossils 4th Grade Education Ability Communication Communication Conceptualization Conceptualization Coordination Coordination Diagnosis Diagnosis Integrative Interaction Integrative Interaction WTS # 6 & 10 6 & 10 1&2 1&2 4&7 4&7 3&8 3&8 5&9 5&9 Section Communication Communication Conceptualization Conceptualization Coordination Coordination Diagnosis Diagnosis Integrative Interaction Integrative Interaction