Talk:Steph Conklin: Project-Based Learning in a 10th Grade Special Education Mathematics Classroom

Instructor comment on your project focus -- Jz833665 21:38, 1 March 2011 (EST)

Hi Stephanie,

The focus of your project is important and appropriate. The intent and analysis of needs and the learner are very helpful for your next steps. In your needs assessment, you may additionally include analysis of the students' typical pre-understanding and challenges they face in studying this topic. As part of your intent, you may also highlight what other teachers may learn from this work re. project-based learning in math classrooms and addressing students' special needs. You may elaborate this after we have studied project-based learning (a topic to come in a few weeks). Again, a great start!

More comments from the instructor -- Jz833665 15:04, 11 March 2011 (EST)

The following is a section from "General Suggestions..."

"What issues should be addressed in an instructional case report

Here are the basic elements an instructional case report should include:

   * Rationale and overview: Your intend, what it is about, what a teacher may learn from it.
   * Learning context (or professional training context)
   * Why the selected pedagogy/tech/assessment tools are appropriate in this context.
   * Lesson plan
         o The learner
         o Educational outcomes and performance objectives (including sequencing the objectives into an ICM)
         o Design ideas about the learning processes, media, resources, assessment
         o Lesson units (unit objectives, content, activities, resources/tools, assessment if needed within a unit) 
   * Implementation
   * Reflection 

This is only a primary outline to guide your work. You may find some of the elements inapplicable to your case or that a different structure works better for your case report. So you can adjust in meaningful ways to make your case study report most informative, readable, and valuable to teachers."