Talk:Kate's portfolio page

-- Jianwei Zhang (talk) 14:24, 7 October 2014 (EDT)

Instructor comments on your instructional analysis Kate,

Your portfolio page is in a good shape, presenting your analysis of the topic and related learning outcomes(goals), and your needs assessment that informs the design of this whole mini-course. Excellent work!

I like your focus on Gradual Release Model of Responsibility, and concur what you said about the need of teacher change. In your needs assessment, you may additionally analyze how teachers typically/currently understand their role and responsibility in the classroom, so you are aware of the prior knowledge/practices, as well as misconceptions that you need to address in this mini-course.

You may also clarify the nature of the learning outcomes based on the classifications of Gagne and others (e.g. veral info, attitudes, intellectual skills...). Doing so will help inform the design of the learning processes and conditions to achieve the different outcomes.

instructor comment on your task analysis -- Jianwei Zhang (talk) 14:02, 4 November 2014 (EST)

Your task analysis has been conducted in an appropriate way to generate a progressive sequence of unit-level objectives to be addressed through the activities proposed.

A few refinements: Unit 2- What are the components of the gradual release of responsibility? Learners will be able to: Recognize the gradual release model of responsibility. Value the gradual release model of responsibility as an instructional tool.

THIS UNIT LEVEL OBJECTIVE USES "Recognize" AS THE PERFORMANCE VERB. Being enable to "recognize" seems too low for this unit. Do you expect that participants to summarize/analyze the components of the gradual release of responsibility?

"Value the gradual release model of responsibility as an instructional tool." This looks similar to your unit 1's objective.

Unit 3: How can the gradual release model of responsibility be implemented into instruction? Learners will be able to: Employ the use of the gradual release model of responsibility in their own instruction.

It seems that this objective statement is unfinished: You may add to this sentence to clarify the criteria of success: employ this model... in order to...???