Summary of Brown Summer High School according to

the 2018-2019 Brown University Teacher Education Handbook:

          "Candidates spend four weeks as faculty members at Brown Summer High School (BSHS), an enrichment program for students entering 9th-12th grades in the fall. The instructional program is taught by teams of MAT candidates under the guidance of mentor teachers from local schools and supervised through a collaborative process with the program faculty. The accompanying seminar and practicum assignments address general topics in: planning; curriculum development; instruction and assessment; diversity issues such as working with special education and English Language Learners; and specific topics in each of the three content areas: English, history/social studies, or science. In addition, MATs take EDUC 2090, Literacy Across the Curriculum."

Duties included, but were not limited to:

• Daily lesson planning
• Daily debriefs with a mentor instructor
• Creating resources, such as graphic organizers, writing prompts, and rubrics for summative assessments, to provide to students
• Gathering outside resources to supplement our focal text
• Maintaining accurate, up-to-date student assessment records
• Observing two other BSHS classes in different academic disciplines
• Writing end-of-summer student narrative reports