EDU 6134 Day 3
Professional Development and Teacher Evaluation– the two topics are one in the same to me currently. I am developing into a teacher and constantly being evaluated at present. Am I good enough to be a...
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So often, I have entered a classroom as a para-educator at the beginning of a semester armed with only a list of names of students that I am to identify and “keep track of” during the course of the...
View ArticleGrading and differentiated instruction EDU 6134
The question of the day is: How do I meet the needs of all learners in my classroom? This is a question that plagues me as an emerging teacher—it is also what finally tipped the scales in favor of...
View ArticleWeekly Blog #11
I am beginning to see why collaborating with others in the department and even other schools is so crucial to good teaching. Our school has been participating in a program that allows teachers time to...
View ArticleWhat Do You Believe?
After my first reading of the two selections, What’s My Job? and The Inner Game of Teaching, I focused more on what I knew then, which was the role and interaction of para-educators in the general...
View ArticlePicMonkey Skills Test
My husband is the photographer in the family. The most I have done is scan a photo—I don’t usually even take photographs because he does a much better job. I do, however, catalog and preserve our...
View ArticleScreencast
lI created a screencast this last week. This was very challenging not only the executing but also thinking of a task that would be relevant for my students. I had taught a budgeting unit earlier in...
View ArticleHope Principle Reflection E1:
E1—Exemplify professionally-informed, growth-centered practice. Teacher-candidates develop reflective, collaborative, professional growth-centered practices through regularly evaluating the effects of...
View ArticleDraft Professional Development Plan
As I completed the DPD earlier this year, I was grateful for the opportunity to reflect on my growth during my internship and realize that I also have far to go. An experienced teacher told me recently...
View ArticleMeta-reflection
Learning can be a painful process; it involves struggle and failure as well as success. As with any worthwhile endeavor, enduring through the challenging times can bring great rewards. Teaching can...
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