Gannon Curriculum and instruction Portfolio Project

1. Gannon Curriculum and instruction Portfolio Project Heather L. Sherry

2. GEDU 603 Current Issues in Education • Personal/Professional mission statement • Resume • Review of current educational literature(minimum of 5) • Article 1 • Article 2 • Article 3 • Article 4 • Article 5 • Paper on Teacher as a Change Agent • Self Assessment Document

3. GEDU 503 Educational Leadership • Paper or project demonstrating personal leadership skills, emphasizing strengths as well as areas of improvement. • Paper or project demonstrating the relationship between leadership and the ability to bring about systemic change. • Paper or project demonstrating the role of action research in supporting school improvement. • Self Assessment Document

4. GEDU 637 Learning Theory • Paper on graduate student’s personal philosophy of learning and instruction. • Review of the Literature demonstrating an understanding of current learning theory and its implication on classroom instruction. • Self Assessment Document

5. GEDU 601 Methods of Research • Completion of a research project using action research. • Self Assessment Document

6. GEDU 621 School Curriculum • Development of a classroom, school, or district curriculum map for one content area for a school year or the duration of the course. • Review of the Literature demonstrating an understanding of the relationship between curriculum, instruction, and assessment. • Article 1 • Article 2 • Article 3 • Paper or project demonstrating the development of a curriculum cycle that ensures the maintenance of updated curricula.

7. School Curriculum Continued • Paper or project demonstrating the candidate’s development of a set of research-based criteria to be used by a school committee to evaluate curriculum resources as they related to district curriculum, state standards, and state assessments • Self Assessment Document

8. GEDU 505 Classroom Discipline • Paper or project demonstrating an assessment of a specific discipline model or theory used in the graduate student’s classroom. • Paper or project analyzing a current disciplinary model including those that emphasize preventive discipline measures. • Self Assessment Document

9. GEDU 650 Advanced Educational Computing • Identify and locate technology resources online and evaluate them for accuracy and usability. • Complete a revised mission statement that demonstrates technology’s impact on the mission statement offered in the Current Issues course. • Demonstrate an understanding of current emerging technologies. • Demonstrate an understanding of legal and ethical practices related to technology use. • Evidence of lessons and evaluation practices for technology integration. • Self Assessment Document

10. GEDU 604 Student Assessment & Educational Statistics • Paper listing and defining the terms utilizing in assessment theory and practice. • Paper or project demonstrating an understanding of appropriate student assessment theories and classroom-based assessment tasks. • Review of the Literature demonstrating an appraisal of the graduate student’s current classroom assessment procedures including an evaluation and recommendation for change. • Article 1 • Article 2 • Article 3 • Article 4 • Article 5 • Self Assessment Document