CED 555 Week 3

Time has gotten away from me with this blog post. The month of April just seemed to slip away.

Going through the process of planning my culminating project has helped me feel better about being able to complete it successfully. I've begun to collect resources. As part of the project I'm going to include the project lessons in my portfolio. Making the portfolio part of the project will help break additional focus to it's design. I recently went to a job fair where young hopefuls had portfolios two inches thick. While I'm not sure that more is better in the case of portfolios, I would like to bring some more strength to mine.

CED 555 Blog 1 April 15

I've started to consider the elements that I'll use in my on-line portfolio. As I go through the list of classes that we've taken it's difficult to believe that we're almost at the end of the program. I've chosen to focus on the Wisconsin teacher's standards. By focusing on these standards I'll be able to see the work that we've done in the program through a different lens. Everything that's done in the classroom should be directly tied to the standards. This exercise will be good practice for me.

I've also been reviewing the requirements of the culminating project. One of the steps is to design a rubric with which the project will be evaluated. This makes me consider designing the rubric first. What should be the criteria for demonstrating mastery of the topic that I'll be working on? Perhaps if I focus on what constitutes acceptable evidence of mastery, the process will become less intimidating.