M7 Activities
M7: Analyzing Teacher Demographics and Salaries
- Alignments: 9o
- Description: Students will research and compare the demographics and salary scales of teachers in three school districts of interest, analyze these findings alongside student demographics, and discuss workforce trends and disparities in education over the past 5, 20, and 50 years.
- M7 Analyzing Teacher Demographics and Salaries
M7: Becoming A Community Member
- Alignments: 9b, 9d, 9k
- Description: Students will collaboratively create a list of volunteer and work opportunities for gaining hands-on experience with children or in teaching-related environments using a Padlet board or another collaborative space, enabling easy contribution and access to information.
- M7 Becoming A Community Member
M7: Future Mapping
- Alignments: 9b, 9k, 9n, 9o
- Description: Students will create a flowchart detailing their journey from an Intro to Education course to becoming a certified teacher, including coursework, field experiences, state testing, certification requirements, and research on licensure and reciprocity policies for their state or any state they plan to move to.
- M7 Future Mapping
M7: KWL Discussion
- Alignments: 9l, 9n, 9o
- Description: Asynchronous discussion or reflection. Students will critically engage with course material by tracking preconceptions, new learnings, and questions.
M7: Stay Plugged In
- Alignments: 9d, 9n, 10k
- Description: Students will explore and analyze three professional teaching organizations to understand their membership benefits, costs, and professional development opportunities while also curating a list of valuable professional resources, such as books and podcasts, to support their growth as educators.
- M7 Stay Plugged In
Disposition. The teacher understands the expectations of the profession including codes of ethics, professional standards of practice, and relevant law and policy.
Performance. The teacher engages in meaningful and appropriate professional learning experiences aligned with his/her own needs and the needs of the learners, school, and system.
Performance. The teacher actively seeks professional, community, and technological resources, within and outside the school, as supports for analysis, reflection, and problem-solving.
Knowledge. The teacher knows how to build and implement a plan for professional growth directly aligned with his/her needs as a growing professional using feedback from teacher evaluations and observations, data on learner performance, and school- and system-wide priorities.
Disposition. The teacher sees him/herself as a learner, continuously seeking opportunities to draw upon current education policy and research as sources of analysis and reflection to improve practice.
Disposition. The teacher takes responsibility for student learning and uses ongoing analysis and reflection to improve planning and practice.
Performance. The teacher takes on leadership roles at the school, district, state, and/or national level and advocates for learners, the school, the community, and the profession.
