College Teaching Certificate Completion

Prepare a detailed syllabus and lesson plans including a reflective statement about the goals and objectives of the course and lessons in that context.

Write reflective statements about how instructional practices are intended to promote student engagement and learning, and the assessment practices that are used to monitor learning.

Describe the core ideas of the course and lesson, why they are important, and some distinction between critical ideas that all students should gain and enrichment or extension ideas that may not be fully learned by all.

Describe and demonstrate instructional practices that promote student engagement and learning along with rationale for the selection of these strategies that goes beyond anecdotes and folk wisdom.

Demonstrate the responsibility and independence that is necessary for you to be a critical reflective practitioner.

Demonstrate the ability to honestly reflect on the accomplishments and shortcomings of your teaching in relation to evidence of student learning.

Begin with a preliminary meeting to discuss instructional plans for the lesson in the context of the course and to identify things to observe.

Attendance of a full lesson and systematic collection of observational data.

A written summary of the observation including instances of successful instruction and suggestions for changes; and

A follow up meeting to discuss the observation report and to make plans for the next observation.

After the final observation of the semester (at least three observations should take place during the semester) the faculty mentor should provide a letter summarizing the observations and development that has taken place.

In your essay you will:

• Write a preview of the teaching portfolio elements.
• Explain how the components of the College Teaching Certificate program have influenced your development as a teacher.
• Describe and reflect on your growth as a teacher, situating your thinking in evidence-based practices.

Explains how your teaching objectives, methodologies, and assessments are evidence-based, appropriate to your discipline, and are supported by evidence-based practices.

Show how your teaching materials are grounded in the evidence-based practices outlined in the reflective essay and/or teaching philosophy and how they promote student engagement.

Include a description of when and how diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments are used.

Additionally, this section should include:

• A sample assessment.
• How the guidelines for this assessment were provided to students.
• An explanation as to why this assessment is a valid and useful measure of students' achievement of the learning outcomes.
• A summary of assessment results, and how these results support pedagogical and curricular revisions.

Include an annotated lesson plan that is based on a scholarship of teaching and learning journal article (evidence-based). Explain how the lesson objectives, activities, and assessments are aligned, and reflects on the lesson's effectiveness.

Include the evaluations by your teaching supervisor, peers, and/or student evaluation responses.