Final+exam

(Note: you may want to click the discussion tab above, then open another browser window to allow you to navigate the wiki while you write)

Wiki derives from the Hawaiian word for “fast.” If learning involves having an experience and then having a chance to reflect on it, this is your chance to slow down and make connections before the end of the year across the written and collaborative work you’ve done this semester on the wiki. What have you learned about planning and teaching English Language Arts?

__Assignment__
In one last wiki posting (to the discussion forum above, or to your personal page), compose the equivalent of a 5-page paper (which need not necessarily be an essay) answering one of the following three questions using evidence (in the form of examples, quotes, or other illustrations) that spans some aspect(s) of the wiki; for example, you might look across all the lesson plans, all the weekly topics, or all the discussion postings on enactments:

1. How has our work this semester helped you think about crafting teaching practice(s) like groupwork or discussion? 2. How has our work this semester helped you think about planning and enacting a unit? 3. Another topic of your choice

For example, perhaps you noticed that the lesson plans became shorter and more streamlined during the course of the semester because you had more of a “mental image” of how certain activities would work with “students”; or perhaps you noticed that responders often commented on the same kinds of things after each lesson.

__Evaluation__
This assignment will be evaluated based on the following criteria:
 * Content ( /5)**: Your composition includes and interprets evidence that spans the wiki
 * Organization ( /5)**: Your composition’s structure leads your reader to a conclusion
 * Personalization ( /5)**: Your composition’s involves evaluation of your own teaching, or beliefs about teaching, as well as your classmates’.