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This course has provided me with a strong understanding of how students in the primary grades learn to read and write and what I need to do to ensure I provide my students with the best literacy learning experiences. More specifically, I have learned foundations of literacy instruction, principles of effective literacy teachers, stages of literacy development, common core standards, the reading and writing processes, different way to assess and assessment tools, how to organize for reading and…

At first glance, it does look like a lot of extra work. Without proper training, teachers could not only see this as one extra thing to do but could get completely overwhelmed with feeling like they need to redo all of their lessons and units. UbD is something that definitely needs to be introduced slowly with proper training and with full buy-in from all staff members in order to be successful for both the student, teacher, and administration. Additionally, there are parts of…

level of understanding; however, the lessons were to be interactive as well as address the strengths and needs of each students determined from the pre-assessment. While creating the lessons, I consulted with my cooperating…

99 Ideas and Activities for Teaching English Learners with the SIOP Model, MaryEllen Vogt and Jana Echevarria offer research-based and verified techniques for putting together SIOP lessons. These ideas and activities are aimed at promoting differentiated instruction in the classroom and include new approaches to lesson planning and activities as well as numerous familiar, time-tested ideas that simply serve to remind teachers of the tools and methodologies they have at their disposal. While all…

deconstructed in a manner that clearly outline the indicators for each teacher performance level. Teachers then evaluate lessons using the rubric, determining the performance level for each standard. At the school level, strong mentor teachers guide new teachers through the intricacies of the M-STAR process. Mentor teachers are invaluable in the areas of guiding new teachers in ensuring that lesson plans and artifacts meet the rigor of the related M-STAR standards. The twenty…

Lesson Planning Lesson Title: Awareness of Violence Learner Objectives: • Define what violence is and how it affects women, children and in the family. • Introduce the film • Watch documentary relating to Awareness of Violence • Questions & Discussion • Discuss Safety Procedures • List of churches in community, willing to help women and families Materials: • A location, School gym, Church building or Auditorium room • Big Screen • Screen Projector • The film relating to Awareness of…

One theme is that sin must be confessed or it will grow and fester like a disease and will eventually consume the sinner from the inside, out. This theme is expanded upon throughout The Scarlet Letter, and especially during the events leading up to the second scaffold scene. Dimmesdale "kept vigils...sometimes viewing his own face in a looking glass...tortured" (Hawthorne 152). His visions of an unforgiving god and of what that god will do to him because of his sin drive him to a…

Philosophy of Learning: a. What is my personal definition of a great teacher and what experience formed that definition? • My personal definition of a great teacher is someone that inspires students to learn and be successful. The teacher would do so by differentiating instruction, implementing a positive environment, and using effective classroom management procedures and routines. I also think a great teacher would model the attitude and behaviors he/she expects the students to use. Also…

I forgot to make a note of when I started the task and had a mini panic about my timing but soon over came this and took a deep breath and re composed myself. I did initially have the artist bio task earlier in my lesson plan but changed it to after I’d been through the section about what to include in your artist bio as wanted my learners to have a good idea of content and how to spark thoughts for the bio before they attempted to do one. Maybe I could have given…

Self-Reflection When the assignment on writing an objective was given to me I started to feel nervous because I knew that objectives are meant to be accomplished. Then, when the micro lesson plan assignment was given I started to enjoy it because while typing out my lesson plan I imagined myself presenting the lesson. However, when the day of presenting arrived, I felt a mixture of feeling however, I tried to enjoyed it. After watching the video of my presentation, I learned that I have a long…