Pedagogy Assessment Information
During your Student Teaching experience at Central Washington University, you will work with a Cooperating (classroom) Teacher and a University Field Supervisor to scaffold your time in the classroom.
The University Field Supervisor will visit you approximately once every week-and-a-half. Some of these visits will be more formal than others, but you will conference with your University Field Supervisor and Cooperating Teacher frequently over the course of the experience. Both of these individuals will be performing continuous assessments of your knowledge, skills and dispositions in the classroom to ensure that you meet both programmatic and state-mandated certification requirements.
The Final Student Teaching Evaluation is the programmatic document that will indicate whether or not you have successfully completed the Student Teaching Experience as a step toward certification. This instrument is numerically scaled 1 to 5.
In addition, the Pedagogy Assessment Instrument, a state-mandated document, will be administered twice during the course of your Student Teaching to ensure compliance with state standards and competencies. The items on this instrument will be noted as ‘Met,’ ‘Not Met,’ or ‘Not Observed.’ All items must be ‘Met’ before a grade of Satisfactory can be issued for Student Teaching and before CWU will recommend you for certification.
To view the Pedagogy Assessment Scoring Rubric that will be used during your student teaching, please visit http://www.k12.wa.us/certification/profed/pubdocs/ScoringRubric.pdf
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Pedagogical Videos
The link below will prompt you to launch/download iTunes. Once iTunes is launched the iTunes-U page for Central Washington University will be displayed. You will be able to select from video exemplars of lessons that illustrate meeting Pedagogy-Based Performance Assessment (PPA) Instrument requirements. The videos were developed to assist teacher education candidates in the State of Washington make the connections between the items on the PPA and the classrooms in which these items are evidenced.
The videos were supported by a Title IIA Grant, Higher Education Coordinating Board through a partnership between Washington State University (WSU) and Pacific Lutheran University (PLU). The lessons were delivered in classrooms in the Fife School District.
After "clicking" the link below, select the "GET MOVIE" button which will download a copy of the video to a folder named "Central Washington University" in your iTunes (Please allow 5-10 minutes for the video to initially download to your iTunes). To view the video: highlight the downloaded movie and "press" play.