REP Section 1
This is determined by REP Goalsetting feedback combined with your own professional interests.
What is a professional goal?
Statistical information about the district would be one example of this category from Section 2.
What is research context nformation?
Two of these are needed to summarize your most important REP data.
What are graphics?
Copied directly from Section One, this statement helps prepare an audience for the "Reflection."
What is "the REP research question"?
This group of peers will support you throughout your REP project.
What is a "PLC"?
This requires you to read and summarize two professional journal articles on your goal.
What is a literature review?
This subjective point of view generated by a teacher candidate is not permitted in the Anonymous Description of Learner Context.
What is "your opinion"?
REP lesson plans must be written in this format.
What is the "Bobcat Lesson Plan" format?
This segment of Section 4 targets a group of researchers, which tends to be overlooked
What are "teacher candidates" or "pre-service teacher researchers"?
The REP is organized into these four sections, which are completed in order to build the final REP research poster.
What are "Rationale, Methods, Results, and Reflection"?
These are two individuals who will provide quotes to support your professional goal.
Who are the cooperating teacher and field supervisor?
This item is crucial for an observer collecting REP data for you who does not know your class and who has to observe each student and tally behaviors.
What is a seating chart?
In the "Learner Achievement and Growth Chart," students who are not quite proficient are categorized in this way.
What is "almost proficient"?
This final piece of Section 4 looks ahead to continued reflection during early career teaching.
What is "idea for future research"?
This individual supports the REP process and scores the final product.
What is an "REP Coach"?
These commonly confused terms both relate to logic, but the first is an adjective and the second is a noun, which also makes up one of the headings in Section 1.
What is "rational" and "rationale"?
This level of support targets individuals or groups of students and is developed by the teacher.
What are Level II supports?
These types of required labels use either the word "table" or the term "figure."
What are "numbers"?
For this Section 4 element, TCs should refer by name to their tables and/or figures in Section 3.
What is "Significance of Results"?
Since the REP is essentially a self-study rather than a clincial lab investigation, REP researchers should avoid relying on this traditional research component.
What is a "control group"?
This point of view should be included in every REP research question.
What is first person point of view?
Quantitative data is expressed with numbers, while qualitative data is descriptive rather than numerical. A third kind of evidence categorizes qualitative data into tiered groups, which can help make observations more measurable.
What is leveled data?
TCs often write too much for this requirement, which should only clarify what the audience can already see graphically.
This segment of Section 4 is the heart of the REP and should be the most detailed of any other piece.
What is "personal reflection"?
To thoroughly understand and meet all REP requirements, all TCs need to keep handy both of these helps.
What are the "Cumulative Requirements Checklist" and the "Rep Guide"?