TNT 700.6 PBP Preparing for The Learning Environment Projects

PREPARING FOR THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT PROJECTS

This assessment has two components submitted as one project so the instructors can see how your plan supports your vision. You must use the Response Template Download Response Template to complete the project.  

You must score at least 64 points out of 80 points to pass this assignment.

Please allow 3 – 5 business days from the date of submission for scoring.

Component 1:

You will explain your vision of the ideal learning environment for the age and subject you intend to teach in a 3 – 5 page original paper (12 point font, double spaced)  The paper should be professionally written and typed using correct grammar and spelling.  Use the response template Download response template to respond to each question.

1. How do you create and maintain a mutually respectful      and collaborative class of actively engaged learners? Include how you      respond to student needs and incorporate student strengths and personal      experiences.
2. What strategies will you use to build relationships      with your students?
3. How will you physically organize the classroom to      ensure flexibility and accommodate the learning needs of all students      including those with disabilities? Consider things such as the three zones      of proximity and furniture.
4. Explain how your behavior management plan (see below)      supports this vision.

Support the strategies you choose with research. For example, you could say something like “According to the work of Dr. I.M. Authority, primary students need structure to feel secure.  Therefore, our day will be structured in the following ways…”  Please note that you will not pass the project if you do not properly cite your research.  You can use any recognized style format (APA, MLA, Chigago) with which you are comfortable.  

Component 2:

After fully explaining the environment you wish to create you will consider how you will accomplish this. You will create a behavior management plan using the template provided. Your behavior management system should help create and maintain the environment explained in the paper. The behavior management plan must include the following:

1. Three to five positively worded rules that you can       consistently enforce.
2. Expectations (3 – 5) that encourage students to take       responsibility for their own learning and instill a culture of individual       and group accountability.
3. Procedures for at least 3 common classroom tasks       (Examples: handing back graded work, turning in make-up work, handing out       materials, going to lunch, sharpening a pencil, etc.)  Once you are       teaching you will have more than 3.  These should be fully explained       and able to be followed by the target age group.  Include the       expectations for student behavior.

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Explain your vision of the ideal learning environment for the age and subject you intend to teach in a 3 – 5 page original paper. You must answer the questions below, using a 12 point font and double spaced. Then, complete the behavior management plan that supports your vision using the form provided.

1. How do you create and maintain a mutually respectful and collaborative class of actively engaged learners? Include how it responds to student needs and incorporates student strengths and personal experiences. You must use research to support your selection of these strategies and identify and explain the research.

2. What strategies will you use to build relationships with students? Use research to support your selection of these strategies and identify and explain the research.

3. How will you physically organize your classroom to ensure flexibility and accommodate the learning needs of all students including those with disabilities? Consider things such as the three zones of proximity and furniture. 

4. Explain how your behavior management plan supports your vision for the ideal learning environment.

5. sing the template below, create a behavior management plan designed to create and maintain your ideal learning environment. Your behavior management plan must include:

· 3 – 5 positively worded rules that you can consistently enforce

· 3 – 5 expectations that encourage students to take responsibility for their own learning and instill a culture of individual and group accountability

· Procedures for at least 3 – 5 common classroom tasks, such as returning graded work, turning in make-up work, handing out materials, going to lunch/being dismissed from class, sharpening pencils, going to the restroom, etc

RULES

EXPECTATIONS

PROCEDURES (at least 3)

TASK   1:

STEP   BY STEP PROCEDURE

EXPECTATION   FOR STUDENT BEHAVIOR

TASK   2:

STEP   BY STEP PROCEDURE

EXPECTATION   FOR STUDENT BEHAVIOR

TASK   3:

STEP   BY STEP PROCEDURE

EXPECTATION   FOR STUDENT BEHAVIOR

TASK   4:

STEP   BY STEP PROCEDURE

EXPECTATION   FOR STUDENT BEHAVIOR

TASK   5:

STEP   BY STEP PROCEDURE

EXPECTATION   FOR STUDENT BEHAVIOR