Clinical Field Experience B: Social Studies Pre-Assessment
Part 1: Pre-assessment and Implementation
Follow these steps for this week's field experience:
1. Discuss with your mentor teacher your expectations for identifying, selecting, and working with a small group of students. From your previous observation in your field experience classroom, identify students in the classroom environment that would benefit from additional learning support. Share this information with your mentor teacher to determine 3-5 students, above, at, or below standard achievement, to work with on standards specific to the social studies content area for this classroom.
2. Develop a pre-assessment in the social studies content area that aligns to the standards and unit that your mentor teacher shared with you during Clinical Field Experience A. This pre-assessment can be oral, written, or completed through technology. The pre-assessment should identify how well selected students know the concept and provide data that would allow you to determine learning gaps and needs in order to develop an appropriate lesson to support learning needs.
3. Share the pre-assessment with your mentor teacher and ask for his or her feedback.
4. Implement the pre-assessment that you created with the selected group of students and use the data to prepare for Clinical Field Experience C.
Part 2: Reflection
In 250-500 words, summarize and reflect on your field experience including the steps you took to identify students for the pre-assessment and their pre-assessment results.
Additionally consider:
1. How did the pre-assessment provide data to determine the learning gaps and needs of students?
2. What challenges did you face when developing and delivering the pre-assessment?
3. Explain how you will use your findings in your future professional practice.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.