GAVS Field Experience Expectations, Summer 2020

Discussions*
• Select three units in the GAVS course you are observing and read over the discussion questions and responses
for those units.
• Reflect on your impressions of the discussions concentrating on the following:
a) Are the discussion questions engaging?
b) Are the student responses appropriate or not?
c) Why are some students’ responses “better” than others?
d) Has the teacher responded appropriately, especially to the students whose responses may be “off”?
e) Are there any discussion questions you might add to this unit? why?

Drop boxes*
• Select three units in the GAVS course you are observing and read over the drop box assignments and
submissions by the students.
• Reflect on your impressions of the assignments concentrating on the following:
a) Are the assignments engaging?
b) Are the students’ submissions adequate?
c) Could the assignment be improved? How? (Be specific here and feel free to suggest any great websites or
applications that you might use.)
d) Is the teacher’s feedback appropriate? Could the feedback be better? (make suggestions; no offense will be
taken!)
e) Are there any assignments that seem repetitive or unnecessary?

*Your Discussion and Dropbox Reflections will be completed as a word document and then e-mailed to Shane Miller and
Brent Gilles no later than, Monday July 13 11:59 PM.

Online Module Assignment**

• Choose a topic that relates to one of the modules in your GAVS course, a lesson that you can use in your
classroom, or develop a module for parents or other teachers that you work with. GAVS policies don't allow you
to create instructional materials for their courses, so you will do that in a UWG CourseDen “Sandbox” instead of
in the course you were assigned to observe at GAVS for the past month. Therefore, choose a topic that
corresponds to content you teach; the items you create should be designed to accompany that unit for the
purpose of enhancing/expanding/improving/etc. a lesson.
• In the UWG sandbox, create a module for that unit (title the unit with your last name, subject, and unit topic).
Your unit must include at least four original components:
1. document file with instructional information (save/upload all documents as PDF files)
2. link to your own instructional video
3. discussion
4. assignment with a submission folder “dropbox”
• Your videoed presentation will be a 7-10 minute show-and-tell of your module and your rationale for the
instructional pieces you have included. You will upload your video presentation of your module to your module
in the sandbox so that everyone has access to it. You need to make your presentation of the module the first file
in your module so it is easily accessible. You can use screencast-o-matic or other software to record the
presentation of your module.

** Your Online Module Assignment components should be uploaded to the UWG sandbox by Sunday, July 19 at 11:59
PM, and you will be assigned 5 peers to review their presentation videos by Thursday July 23 at 11:59 PM.