Professional Learning and Ethical Practice Homework

Allocate at least 3 hours to complete this part of the clinical field experience.

Complete two or more field experiences from the Focused Field Experience Activity List C:

Attend a faculty meeting. (InTASC 9)

Attend a professional development session for special education teachers. (InTASC 9)

Attend a professional conference or workshop for special education teachers. (InTASC 9)

Develop a professional growth plan aligned with the needs based on feedback from the pre-assessment of dispositions. (InTASC 9)

Develop and lead a professional development session for teachers on the safe, legal, and ethical use of information and technology. (InTASC 9)

Develop and teach a lesson one-on-one, to a small group or to a whole class that engages students on the safe, legal, and ethical use of information and technology. (InTASC 9)

Your field experiences should include a combination of K-8 and 9-12 grade level settings and students with exceptionalities. Reflect upon your field experience choices in a 250-500 word summary.

APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.

Document the hours and locations that you spend in the field on your Clinical Field
Experience Verification Form.

Submit the Clinical Field Experience Verification Form with the last assignment by the assignment due date. Directions for submitting can be found on the College of
Education site in the Student Success Center.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.