Unit 1, Activity 1: Orientation to Moreland University
The ED Puzzle was a great introduction to the Moreland teaching platform, including its goals and pointers to some of the most important elements of the TEACH-NOW website including:
- where the Course Catalog and Candidate Handbook can be found (Activity Resources and Library)
- the goal and purposes of Moreland University
- the attendance policy of the program, and how to handle a missed class
- the grading policy
- how to access the cohort’s Google Drive (from the Google Drive icon on the Learn page)
- the Home page and the course outline, and the importance of Modules 7 and 8, the student teaching portion of the program
The InTASC Standards outline what teachers should know and be able to do to ensure that every K–12 student reaches the goal of being ready to enter college or the workforce in today’s world. They get their own page here: see InTASC Standards.
This activity is carried over from /module/module-1-ed-501 on the Moreland site
Unit 1, Activity 2: Creating an e-portfolio
This site. The activity was to create an e-portfolio for the program: a home page, a page per course, and tabs for literacy, clinical practice and the InTASC standards. Every artifact from here on lands in it.
Unit 1, Activity 3: Introduction to literacy
Each module the cohort adds to a shared Literacy Guide, organized by module with terms listed alphabetically. Every member defines the terms for the module currently in session, so Module 1’s section is the program-orientation vocabulary.
It lives on the Literacy page.
Also at /module/module-1-ed-501 on the Moreland site