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Context For Learning
1. List any special features of your school or classroom setting (e.g., charter, co-teaching,
themed magnet, remedial course, honors course) that will affect your teaching and
management.
Honors Courses offered in each subject
2. Describe any district, school, or cooperating teacher requirements or expectations that might
affect your planning or delivery of instruction, such as required curricula, pacing plan, use of
specific instructional strategies, interdisciplinary teaming, or standardized tests.
Pacing Calendar
Interdisciplinary Teaming
Milestones
GA Performance Standards
3. What is the class schedule (e.g., 50 minutes every day, 90 minutes every other day)?
50 minutes each day
4. Is there any ability grouping or tracking on your team/in your content area class? If so,
please describe how it affects your class.
No
5. List other resources (e.g., electronic whiteboard, graphing calculators, online resources,
etc.) used for instruction by the members of the team.
- SMART Boards
- Graphing Calculators
- Brainpop
- GeoGebra
- Plickard
- Discovery Edu
- Laptop Carts (Laptops 1-1 ratio)
- “The Canvas LMS provides a seamless environment for students, teachers, and parents
to access course content, assignments/assessments, grades, and attendance, along
with the integration of additional technology tools such as OneDrive and Office 365.
Students access Canvas using their network ID and password.” From Cherokee County
Website
- Galileo
- USATestPrep
- i-Ready
- Read 180
- BrainPOP: BrainPOP Jr., BrainPOP, BrainPOP Espanol, BrainPOP ESL
About the Students on your MG Team or Secondary Content Area Class (You can use
demographics for your field placement school and generalize.)
6. Include information for the middle grades team as a whole, or for secondary areas, provide
information for each content course taught by each individual.
7. Complete the chart below to summarize required or needed supports, accommodations, or
modifications for your students that will affect your instruction (consult with your CT). Consider
English language learners, gifted students, students with IEPs or 504 plans, struggling
readers,and underperforming students or those with gaps in academic knowledge.Use
the school demographic data to extrapolate for the number of students in any one of your
team’s classes.
Consider the variety of adolescents in each class who may require different strategies/supports
or accommodations/modifications to instruction or assessment.
· English language learners
· Gifted students needing greater support or challenge
· Students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) or 504 plans
· Struggling readers
· Underperforming students or those with gaps in academic knowledge
Learning Needs # of Supports,
Category Students accommodations,
modifications,
and/or relevant IEP
goals
ADD/ADHD 20 Differentiation,
Moving around the
class, additional time
on assignments if
needed