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UWF TeacherReady Lesson Contents

Information on foundation course and intensive lessons learning objectives and modules in the UWF TeacherReady program.


Foundation Courses

Course Learning Objectives Modules
Foundation Course 1 
Professional Fundamentals
  • Understand the purpose and impact of the education profession
  • Recognize the professional expectations and responsibilities of educators
  • Prepare for success as a developing education professional
  • Being the Best Professional
  • Demonstrate Professionalism
  • Professional Communication
  • Professional Radar
  • Working with Others
Foundation Course 2
Workplace Fundamentals
  • Understand how workplace culture is created and why it matters
  • Recognize the shared responsibility for building a positive school environment
  • Apply positive mindset strategies to support a thriving, student‑centered workplace
  • Having a Positive Mindset
  • Being a Happy Employee
  • Being Proactive
  • Being a Problem Solver
  • Being an Owner
  • Avoiding Placing Blame
  • Modeling the Right Behavior
  • Being an Ambassador
  • Expressing Gratitude
Foundation Course 3
Effective Frameworks of Teaching 
  • Understand the foundations of effective teaching and instructional frameworks 
  • Apply knowledge of student developmental stages to instructional planning
  • Use teaching frameworks to refine and improve instructional practice
  • Frameworks of Teaching
  • Developmental Stages of Children
  • Developmental Stages and Students
  • Helping Students Learn 
  • Learning Is a Process
Foundation Course 4
Classroom Management Basics
  • Understanding the teacher’s influence on student success
  • Define classroom management as a comprehensive instructional practice
  • Develop the mindset and skills of a classroom leader
  • Teacher as Manager
  • Classroom Procedures
  • Standards of Behavior (Rules)
  • A Deeper Dive into Classroom Management Plans

Intensive Lessons

Lesson Learning Objectives Modules
Intensive Lesson 1
Managing and Engaging Students to Learn
  • Develop a plan for creating and communicating strategies for managing an engaging classroom that supports an inclusive environment for students and families.
  • Student Belonging to Teachers
  • Connecting with Students and Families
  • Classroom Procedures
  • Classroom Standards of Behavior
Intensive Lesson 2
Alignment of Learning Targets & Standards
  • Identify what students should know or be able to do to show mastery of the standard.
  • Create scaffolds of learning targets aligned to learning standards for your grade level and/or content area.
  • Students Own Their Learning
  • Learning can create Anxiety
  • Unpacking Standards
  • Developing Targets Aligned to Standards
  • Scaffolding Learning Targets
  • Communicating Learning Targets
Intensive Lesson 3
Learning Tasks and Feedback Strategies
  • Design learning tasks and feedback strategies that support student learning aligned to learning targets that are aligned to learning standards.
  • Use the data gathered from feedback loops to adjust instructional plans to ensure success for all students.
  • What to Know About Learning Tasks
  • Aligning Learning Tasks to Learning Targets
  • Feedback Strategies or Formative Assessment
Intensive Lesson 4
Aligning Summative Assessment Tools
  • Design classroom assessments aligned to learning targets. 
  • Communicate results of assessments to extend student learning.
  • Formative and Summative Assessment
  • Tools to Develop Summative Assessment
  • Performance Assessment as Summative Assessment
Benchmark Assessment
  • Apply the student engagement framework in planning a unit of study.
  • Complete a lesson from the planned unit.  
  • Develop a test blueprint for the unit plan developed. 
  • Reflect on your learning and teaching experience. 
  • Benchmark Assessment Instructions
Intensive Lesson 5
Engaging Students in Special Populations
  • Evaluate and create learning tasks to support the learning needs of all students. 
  • Implement learning tasks that support learning for all students.
  • Learning Theory 
  • Teaching Students from Poverty
  • Students with Disabilities
  • English Language Learners
  • Gifted Learners.
Intensive Lesson 6
Engaging Students in Reading
  • Create and demonstrate strategies for developing literacy skills in all content areas and for all students.
  • Identify ways to support student success through strategies for ensuring efficient and effective reading of content.
  • Literacy in All Classrooms
  • Oral Language and Phonological Awareness
  • Phonics
  • Fluency
  • Vocabulary
  • Comprehension
Intensive Lesson 7
Applying Five Components of Reading
  • Assess student performance or access performance data
  • Use the data to identify performance gaps or learning gaps
  • Implement the continuous improvement process to close the identified gaps in learning
  • Speaking - Oral Language
  • Fluency
  • Words - Spoken and Written - Vocabulary
  • Comprehension - Learning
  • Connecting the Dots
Intensive Lesson 8
Culminating Clinical Experience
  • Develop lesson plans for five days of instruction.
  • Teach those lessons for five consecutive days and reflect on instruction.
  • Culminating Clinical Experience Instructions