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Teacher Work Sample:

Analysis of Student Learning

Serena Augustin

University of Alaska Southeast

In partial fulfillment of of the requirements of

ED 688-J02 Student Teaching

Submitted April 17, 2018

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Abstract

This is a Teacher Work Sample that has been prepared as documentation of a

science unit I taught to a 5th grade class during my time as a student teacher. It

includes the process I went through to prepare the unit, starting with my consideration

of the contextual factors of the class which included the community, district, school

factors, students, and the instructional characteristics. From there, I determined the

learning goals for the unit based on the national and state standards, and summarized

how students would show their understanding using multiple levels of Bloom’s

Taxonomy, making sure to include scaffolding. The next step I took was to determine

how I would assess my students before, during, and after the unit was taught, using

multiple methods of assessments. I then used the information from the first three steps

to plan my science unit. All learning activities centered around the learning goals and

assessments, which were based on standards I had chosen. Once the unit was ready, I

administered the pre-assessments and revised the lessons to fit the needs of my

students based on the student’s scores. After the unit was taught, I organized the

information into charts to analyze student learning toward the learning goals set forth in

the beginning. Based on the charts that were made, I analyzed the whole class

success, compared boys and girls success, and compared two students and their

differing levels of success. Upon reflection of the unit, I recounted successful

instructional strategies that I used to increase student learning, while also identifying

areas where I could improve as an educator, both with instructional strategies and with

professional development.