======AY 300 - Fall 2011: Last Day Lesson Plan======

=====Preface=====

Today's class will involve professor visits, teaching portfolios, pedagogy research, and some closing notes. 

======Section recap======
(20 minutes)

The person on call for this week will share their section experience. Some questions include:
   * What did you do? 
   * How did you implement your activities? 
   * What worked? 
   * What didn't work?
   * What would you do differently?
   * How did you assess learning?
   * Did you receive any unexpected questions/reactions/etc.?
   * Did anything unexpected happen?
   * What were you thinking about while you were running section? Any moments of panic?

======Professor Visits======
(<=90 minutes)

Due to a Academic Senate meeting, these visits will be sprinkled throughout the class. We'll hear from Filippenko, Davis, Quataert, and Stahler on teaching, pedagogy, and philosophy. 

======Teaching Portfolios & Statements of Teaching Philosophy======
(10 minutes)

Slater and Adams has a good chapter on the Teaching Portfolio.

    * Good emphasis on not slipping into generalities and on trying to connect everything to a set of specific goals.
    * The rubric itself is pretty logical given what we've talked about this semester.
    * The 5 main points to cover/things to do in a Teaching Philosophy are:
      - Goals for student learning
      - Enactment of goals/teaching methods
      - Assessment of goals (measuring student learning)
      - Creating an inclusive classroom and acknowledge differences in students' learning abilities and styles
      - Good structure, rhetoric, language; well-written
    * General guidelines:
      - Brief (1-2 pages)
      - Narrative, first person approach
      - Portray yourself as an individual: don't be vague, broad, or too general
      - Give specific examples of your teaching in practice
      - Showcase your strengths and accomplishments
      - Convey reflectiveness
      - Communicate that teaching is valued
  * Michigan's Center for Research on Learning and Teaching has a great site on this stuff [[http://www.crlt.umich.edu/tstrategies/tstpts.php|here]]

You might try this to get you started: In at least one paragraph, but not more than one page, answer the following questions:

   - I bring to teaching a belief that …..
   - In the classroom I see myself as …..
   - I believe students are …..
   - I seek to foster in students …..
   - I think the role of discussion section is …..