A Quick Guide to the PBI Field Experience at Manor New Tech High School

Important Dates:
Preliminary Field Trips:
Blanton Museum of Art Friday, October 8
McKinney Falls State Park Saturday, October 9

Dates of the Field Experience: (Tentative)

Launch
Teach
Field Trip (Blanton & McKinney)
Presentations (short periods)
In class wrap-up (at UT)
Thursday, November 4
Friday, November 5
Saturday, November 6
Monday, November 8
Tuesday, November 9

The people involved:

Master Teachers: Pam Powell and Lynn Kirby
TA’s: TuTh11 – Teddy Chao, TuTh2 – Sara Hawkins

The PBI field experience is a culminating project that consists of multiple parts.
1. You will attend a preliminary field trip to the Blanton Museum of Art and
McKinney Falls State Park learn about how you can integrate the field trip into your
project. Remember, your students will not actually be going to the field trip until
they are almost done with the project. So do not build your launch around the field
trip.
2. You will be at Manor New Tech from November 4-8 to teach your project.
Each of you will be responsible for teaching at least 2 class periods.
3. A formal write-up of your experience, which will be the seed for your final
project.

The PBI field experience is your opportunity to see how many of the theoretical
concepts we talk about actually lool like when implemented in a real school. We
have a wonderful opportunity with Manor New Tech High School in that they have
adopted a PBL model of pedagogy that closely mirrors what you are learning in this
course. Additionally, they have a history of hiring teachers specifically from the
UTeach program.
In this project, you will be engaging in the legacy cycle of project-based
learning (as you read about in the Pellegrino and Brophy, 2008 article) in order to
redevelop what you learn about your field experience into a final project. That being
said, your field experience project is not a rough draft. You will need to put
significant time and effort into designing, planning, and implementing your project.
The project will only last 4 days, which means there is no room for lesson redo’s or
half-prepared lessons.

Subject Groupings: 4 to 5 students only

 Subject TuTh - 11 TuTh - 2
Geogebra (Algebra 1 group 1 group
I+Geometry)
Physalgebra (Physics 1 group 1 group
I+Algebra II)
Biology 2 groups 1 group
Chemistry 1 group 2 groups

Thur/Fri
st
1 Period 8:15 – 9:30
2nd Period 9:33 – 10:53
A Lunch / 3rd Period 10:56 – 11:26 / 11:29 – 12:49
3rd Period / B Lunch 10:56 – 12:16 / 12:19 – 12:49
4th 12:52 – 2:12
5th 2:15 – 3:35

Monday
st
1 Period 10:27 – 11:12
A Lunch / 2nd Period 11:15 – 11:45 / 11:48 – 12:33
Class / 2nd Period 11:15 – 12:00 / 12:03 – 12:33
Advisory 12:36 – 13:56
Dear 12:56 – 1:11
3rd Period 1:14 - 1:59
4th Period 2:02 – 2:47
5th Period 2:50 – 3:35

On a index card:

1. Your preferred subject area for your Field-Based Experience. This will
eventually become your final project.
2. Your second choice for subject area.
3. Who in this class would you would prefer to work with? Who do you know
that you absolutely cannot work with?
4. Best times that you can teach on November 4, 5, and 8. Hours that you
absolutely CANNOT teach on those days.