Coastline Community College
Education C200The Teaching Profession
CASE STUDY
1. Academic topic or content area
2. Grade level
3. State-adopted academic content standards for content area.
4. Subject matter tutored, based on the above listed standards
5. Where is the student in relationship to the standards?
6. Objectives, outcomes for tutoring
Upon completion of tutoring the
student I tutored will be able to….
7. Student characteristics:
Information you may want to know about your student that might influence instruction:
Gender
Linguistic background
Academic language abilities
Content knowledge and skills
Physical, social, and emotional development
Cultural considerations
Special needs
Health
Interests
Other
8. Methods used to learn about your student and why these methods were selected
9. How you used this information (student characteristics) in planning your tutoring session
10. How did you build your tutoring sessions on what the student already knows and is able to do?
11. What instructional materials or other resources did you use?
12. What accommodations did you use for special needs?
13. What did you do to accommodate different learning styles?
14. What difficulties did you anticipate your student could have with your lesson content and why?
15. What rules, procedures, expectations did you establish for your student’s behavior?
16. What evidence did you collect during your tutoring session to show the extent to which the student has learned what you intended?
17. Comment on 3 or 4 sessions: what you would have done differently and why
18. How would you share the results of your sessions with the student’s parent and with the supervising teacher?
19. Comments/ anything else you’d like to add
Part II.
Questions about the classroom/ learning environment :
20. In what ways do students feel respected, feel valued, and feel part of the whole group?
21. In what ways do students have ownership of the classroom? Do they ever make decisions about resources, environment, or use of time? When? How often?
22. Do they have ownership in their learning? Do they have choices and options for projects, assignments, and partners for group work?
23. When are students comfortable with expressing who they are and their thoughts and ideas? When are they not?
24. When how does the teacher inquire about the needs of the students? How often does he/ she do this? How often does the teacher check for group understanding and adjust the instruction accordingly?
25. How are desks arranged? Are students facing each other? Do they have multiple opportunities each week to share with fellow classmates, and to share with a variety of classmates?
26. Balancing Teacher Roles- what do you see in the classroom in terms of a balance between direct instruction, facilitation, and coaching?
