Task 3. Instructing Students & Supporting Learning
Source: PACT Handbook - Science Teaching Event Candidate Handbook 2008-2009; Performance Assessment for California TeachersPurpose
The Instructing Students & Supporting Learning task illustrates how you work with your students to improve their scientific inquiry skills and strategies as well as knowledge of science concepts. It provides evidence of your ability to engage students in meaningful science tasks and monitor their understanding.
Overview of Task
- Examine your plans for the learning segment and identify learning tasks in which you are supporting students as they are actively engaged in collecting and analyzing scientific data. The data may be collected directly by the students or selected from data collected by others.
- Videotape one or more of these tasks.
- View the video(s) to check the quality, analyze your teaching, and select the most appropriate video clips to submit.
What Do I Need to Do?
Videotape your classroom teaching
- Provide two video clips of no more than twenty minutes total.
- The first clip should illustrate how you facilitated your students’ engagement in meaningful scientific thinking while they are collecting data or selecting data collected by others during a scientific inquiry.
- The second clip should illustrate how you actively engaged students in analyzing, interpreting, and synthesizing the results of that inquiry. The clips should include interactions between and among you and your students and your responses to student comments, questions, and needs. (TPEs 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 11)
- Respond to each of the prompts in the Instruction Commentary.