Below are the basic categories of assignments and requirements for this course and their relative weight in determining course grades.

Electronic Notebooks

We do expect that you maintain a "notebook" for this course, but not the traditional hard-copy notebook. On the course website, there will be a folder established for each person enrolled in the course. It is expected that you submit all of your assignments and other coursework by dropping them into this folder. In class, we will walk you through the procedure to do so. Throughout the course, the instructors will peruse the folders periodically to see that you are maintaining its contents regularly--keeping your assignments up-to-date and keeping it organized.

In order for ease of reading and opening all such assignments, it is expected that all assignments will be submitted in HTML. If you are not an HTML-savvy person, do not fret. From the beginning of the course, we will review how to use popular HTML editors such as Netscape composer and Adobe Go Live. These editors allow you to create HTML documents in WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) mode and will assist you in learning the "innerworkings" of HTML gradually.

Attendance and Participation -- 150 points or 15%

	It is impossible to succeed, much less grow, in this course without these elements.
	Active participation is expected to qualify your attendance.
	All readings must be completed for class discussion. This is a sign of active participation.
	All absences must be excused according to University guidelines.
	If a class session is missed, it is the responsibility of the student to obtain notes, materials, and assignments from other classmates first and the instructor secondly.

Meta-lessons -- 15%

"Meta-lesson" is a term I (Tim Hendrix) coined several years ago when trying to describe what would be an appropriate entry for a class reflective journal. Literally, it means "lesson behind the lesson." In this course, we ask that you complete a reflective journal of meta-lessons with an entry for each class session. Usually, one healthy paragraph or approximately 1/2 page is sufficient. It is difficult to prescribe someone's reflection!

Maybe your day's entry might be directly on the discussion or activities from that day's class. Perhaps, it was something more "behind the scenes." An example? Suppose we were doing a math activity in class one day in groups, and something about the way we formed groups or the dynamic of your group interaction struck you as important information about teaching/learning. That would be an appropriate "meta-lesson"--we probably didn't discuss those issues in class explicitly, but the reflections we have about the "background" issues are often what we remember and employ in our own teaching.

We will expect to see that regular attention to maintaining these metalessons will evident in your folders. Name them transparently, i.e., "metalesson8_23.html" would be the metalesson for August 23.

Assignments & Lesson Plans -- 250 points or 25%

	In the course, there will be regular assignments.
	Most often, these assignments will be completed and submitted entirely in class. Sometimes, it will be assigned as homework and will be due at the beginning of the next class period.
	Some of the assignments will be group assignments and some will be individual.

Field Exercises -- 2 X 100 = 200 points or 20%

Each student will complete 2 field assignments. These will include:

	Observation of a math lesson taught by your cooperating teacher.
	Planning and conducting a math lesson either jointly with the cooperating teacher or independently with supervision by the cooperating teacher. The lesson must fit into the curriculum scope and sequence of the field classroom.

Final Project -- Module or Unit Plan -- 250 points or 25%

	One of the components of the course is to develop a unit, or module, of mathematics instruction.
	You will work in groups to complete this project, but each person will be responsible for an individual lesson of the unit.
	These modules will be presented to the class in the last week of the semester.

Grades are then assigned by the following points or percentages