Objective: Candidates are effective and knowledgeable teachers.

Indicator: Candidates create, implement, and evaluate student learning experiences with teachers and other educators.

	Artifact: Collaborative Unit on Roman Gods and Goddesses Example of Student Presentation
Reflection: Regardless of extensive research support, the value of collaborative teaching can be recognized easily, even in an over-used common sense adage such as, "Two heads are better than one." Clearly, two teachers' dedication to one group of students can only serve to benefit them more than one teacher's efforts can. During my internship in Library Media, I collaborated with teachers on units in order to create, implement, and evaluate student learning experiences. In creating a collaborative unit on Roman Gods and Goddesses, Mrs. Rader, the Latin teacher, and I met virtually and in person before, during, and after the lessons in order to create a unit with integral components of information literacy and content knowledge. Mrs. Rader and I first met to determine her over-arching content objectives. I then matched those with library media standards as appropriate. The Foreign Language Goals, Latin I Goals, and Library Media Goals targets are reflected on page three of the linked artifact. With our goals in place, we were able to create integrated lessons, from which the student products were multimedia presentations on Roman Deities. Students worked in groups to gather information about the print and electronic resources available to them for the project and taught one another about the resources (Pages six of the linked artifact contains sample instructions for the group work.). Then, they conducted independent research on individual deities and created PowerPoint presentations. During the unit, Mrs. Rader and I co-taught the initial lesson, she over saw student research, and we both had a hand in viewing and evaluating the projects. Because I was also responsible for teaching my English classes and could not attend the actual presentations, Mrs. Rader and I worked out a plan for me to view the PowerPoint files on the student server and to evaluate their design and content quality that way. Using this collaborative teaching style, Mrs. Rader and I provided students with the scaffolding, content expertise, and quality feedback they needed in order to be successful. One student's presentation has been linked with permission. The student created a beautifully-designed, informative presentation that included a Works Cited. Every student completed the project, and many of them were outstanding.

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