Good evening it is good to see so many familiar faces again!
I am Christal Klinger a born and raised Colorado native growing up in different suburbs around the Denver Metro area until my family settled in the mountains above Boulder, Colorado. Once I graduated from high school, I went back to Denver, found the love of my life (we just celebrated 22 blissful years) and then moved and have lived for the past 17 years in a small town on the High Plains called Kiowa (like the Native American tribe). We have two amazing children, one has already flown the coop and lives in Denver, while the other is still home with us, a junior in high school and keeps us busy.
For the past 23 years, I have worked as an American Sign Language (ASL) Interpreter in …show more content…
As a student myself I feel the biggest roadblock in meeting the objectives has been not knowing what the end goal and objective of both mini-lessons and the big picture lesson that an instructor is attempting to teach. Not having a roadmap makes it very difficult for learning to occur which is a significant roadblock for learning. As a teacher, my first-semester teaching I was expected to work under the senior instructor who did not use lesson plans or have a clear goal in sight for what the expectations and objectives were within the class. Having his students after he left I experienced firsthand the importance of having clear objectives for students hence another reason I began using a PowerPoint as a guide which benefited students and me. Therefore the biggest roadblock is when a teacher has no clue what they expect or the learning objectives the students cannot fairly be expected to meet the …show more content…
I do not know if this was the strategy I use most often, but after reading the text and reflecting on my classroom structure for instruction, the students were required to memorize to incorporate it into presentations that they had to remember and do self-analysis which fits the description of the Mastery Strategy. Furthermore, I structured the class environment to promote supportive and positive students relationships. Therefore students participated in partner practice (never with the same partner – they had clock partners), games, and an online requirement for discussions related to Deaf Culture and history. Thus, building an active online and in-class community where students felt safe to share, present, create and make mistakes. Understanding and self-expressive strategies occurred through the online projects, in-class presentations and a research paper based on topics related to deafness, Deaf Culture, deaf history, laws, or issues that students found to tie in some capacity to what they had learned. Therefore, the combination of my classroom curriculum and expectations best described by the four style strategy (Silver, Strong, & Perini,
I am Christal Klinger a born and raised Colorado native growing up in different suburbs around the Denver Metro area until my family settled in the mountains above Boulder, Colorado. Once I graduated from high school, I went back to Denver, found the love of my life (we just celebrated 22 blissful years) and then moved and have lived for the past 17 years in a small town on the High Plains called Kiowa (like the Native American tribe). We have two amazing children, one has already flown the coop and lives in Denver, while the other is still home with us, a junior in high school and keeps us busy.
For the past 23 years, I have worked as an American Sign Language (ASL) Interpreter in …show more content…
As a student myself I feel the biggest roadblock in meeting the objectives has been not knowing what the end goal and objective of both mini-lessons and the big picture lesson that an instructor is attempting to teach. Not having a roadmap makes it very difficult for learning to occur which is a significant roadblock for learning. As a teacher, my first-semester teaching I was expected to work under the senior instructor who did not use lesson plans or have a clear goal in sight for what the expectations and objectives were within the class. Having his students after he left I experienced firsthand the importance of having clear objectives for students hence another reason I began using a PowerPoint as a guide which benefited students and me. Therefore the biggest roadblock is when a teacher has no clue what they expect or the learning objectives the students cannot fairly be expected to meet the …show more content…
I do not know if this was the strategy I use most often, but after reading the text and reflecting on my classroom structure for instruction, the students were required to memorize to incorporate it into presentations that they had to remember and do self-analysis which fits the description of the Mastery Strategy. Furthermore, I structured the class environment to promote supportive and positive students relationships. Therefore students participated in partner practice (never with the same partner – they had clock partners), games, and an online requirement for discussions related to Deaf Culture and history. Thus, building an active online and in-class community where students felt safe to share, present, create and make mistakes. Understanding and self-expressive strategies occurred through the online projects, in-class presentations and a research paper based on topics related to deafness, Deaf Culture, deaf history, laws, or issues that students found to tie in some capacity to what they had learned. Therefore, the combination of my classroom curriculum and expectations best described by the four style strategy (Silver, Strong, & Perini,