• Review the pre-assessments you created in Topic 3 with your mentor teacher and select one to administer with a small group of students identified by your mentor teacher.

Observe/assist your mentor teacher with any time remaining for this practicum experience.

Following your clinical field experience, write a 250-500 word reflection including the following:

• Summary of the pre-assessment you administered and an evaluation of the implementation process
• Summary and analysis of the data that resulted from the pre-assessment
• Description of the learning needs of each student identified by the pre-assessment
• Explanation of how the data could inform future instruction

PART 2

There are essentially three sides to the education paradigm: What to teach, how to teach, and how to assess. Teachers must identify what standards to teach, along with how they intend to teach the content, and how they will assess learning. When developing a science unit, teachers must also determine the scope and sequence of the content (related to the what and how they will teach) across multiple lessons.

For this assignment, use the “3-Day Unit Plan Template” to design a science unit based on one or more state science standards for your field experience grade level. You may refer to previous work in this course to inform this assignment.

Your unit should include:

• Developmentally-appropriate engaging science instruction that is aligned to standards and guides students through learning progressions.
• Pre- and post-assessment activities aligned to science standards and learning objectives that identify individual student needs and verify student learning.

Below the “Unit Plan Template,” write a 250-500 word reflection on the process of creating a unit plan and explain some of the choices you made relating to the pre-assessment, post-assessment, and instructional methods you included in your unit plan. How do pre-and post-assessment data inform future instruction?

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