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Detailed reflection of learners progress
Context and Rationale
Describe your classroom context, timing, and logical rationale for your unit project.
Include an explanation of assigned time limits and expectations of student progress.
Describe how students work at their own pace while adhering to the set time limit for the
unit. How will students who fall behind be helped? How will students who work quickly
to master content be challenged?
Integration of the Marzano 9 Best Practices
Describe the best-practice aspects of all nine strategies for inclusion within your unit.
Where in your unit are you introducing each strategy, and where are you expecting
students to be able to use each one? How are your instructions scaffolded to give each
student the best opportunity to achieve grade-level mastery by the end of your unit?
Detailed reflection of learners progress
Learning Objectives and Standards
How are your lessons and activities scaffolded to lead students to mastery of the overall
objectives for the unit? How do your “Must Do”, “Should Do” and “Aspire to Do”
elements guide your students to mastery? Be specific.
Video Presentations
Reflect on the differences between the Modern Classroom model of video lectures and
the typical PowerPoint lecture presentation. How do active animations, embedded
questions and reflections, focused topics, visible teacher, etc. work to increase student
comprehension of the concepts?
Learning Model – Collaborative Learning, Independent Practice, Mastery Checks
What are the strength/weaknesses of the Modern Classroom delivery model? Include a
discussion of opportunities to scaffold instruction, the use of mastery checks, the various
options for students to learn at their own pace within a pre-defined length of time for the
unit, and any other element of this model that bears reflection/review.
Overall Reflection
The Modern Classroom delivery model is a very different approach to planning and
delivering instruction to students as it blends online and face-to-face instruction. Discuss
your thoughts and feelings as you worked through this model. Describe your growth as a
teacher as you worked through the process of writing the unit. Include a discussion of the
Biblical integration theme of Paradigm Shifts and describe any paradigm shifts you
experienced. Discuss the elements of this model. How can this model support the
delivery of Tier II and Tier III intervention assistance to your students?