9 weeks down, 6 official (7.2 unofficial) weeks to go! Last week was a continuation of the week before in terms of student engagement levels. At some points I feel myself starting to think, “Well, I’m not going to care if they don’t care,” which is not what I want to be thinking or feeling. [...]
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Reflections of a Student Teacher: Week 9
Posted in L1: Learner centered, P1: Professional responsibilities, S2: Standard alignment, T1: Standards-based assessment, T2: Intentionally planned, Uncategorized, tagged expectations, motivation, MSP, poetry on May 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Reflections of a Student Teacher: Week 8
Posted in L1: Learner centered, S1: Content driven, T2: Intentionally planned, T3: Instructional strategies, tagged motivation on April 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Spring sprung early this year. I was more than ready for the perks that come with more daylight and warmer weather, but I was not prepared for the effect it would have on my students. Since coming back from Spring Break at the beginning of April both Robin and I (and let’s face it, most [...]
Reflections of a Student Teacher: Week 3
Posted in S1: Content driven, T2: Intentionally planned, tagged high school, root words, vocabulary on March 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As an 8th grade (student) teacher, part of my responsibility is to prepare my students for high school. Not an easy task. Especially given the fact that I’m having a hart time remembering what it was like being an eighth grader and that I didn’t go to high school in Washington, so I’m don’t really [...]
EDU 6363 Weekly Reflection 8
Posted in S1: Content driven, T1: Standards-based assessment, T3: Instructional strategies, Uncategorized, tagged cause and effect, EDU 6363, thinking maps on February 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When social studies classroom are portrayed in TV shows and movies, the picture usually portrays students on the brink of sleep, chalkboards full of names and dates to memorize, and a monotone teacher dragging on and on. And while there is so much wrong with this scenario, the worst thing in my mind is the [...]
EDU 6363 Weekly Reflection 7
Posted in L1: Learner centered, S1: Content driven, tagged EDU 6363, motivation on February 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
You can’t force students to learn things they don’t want to learn. You can try every trick and strategy up your sleeve, but if they aren’t intrinsically motivated, it’s almost a lost cause. So the question is how do we help motivate students to learn? This is a complicated question with an even more complicated [...]
EDU 6363 Weekly Reflection 4
Posted in S2: Standard alignment, tagged curriculum mapping, EDU 6363 on January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ask any member of my MAT cohort (or any future teacher for that matter) what they’re anxious about in their future career and they’ll mention something about not knowing what to teach. Our program has done a great job of teaching us techniques for how to teach, but since there are so many extraneous variables [...]
EDU 6363 Week 3 Reflection
Posted in L1: Learner centered, S3: Content area integration, tagged backward design, EDU 6363, know/do/be on January 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In our integrated unit on Christopher Columbus and the Conquistadors this week, Columbus is talking about his interactions with the Caribbean people and their belongings and says, “In fact, they took all and gave all, such as they had, with good will but it seemed to me that they were a people deficient in everything.” [...]
Detailed Unit Plan
Posted in S2: Standard alignment on January 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This unit plan was created for an eighth grade geography classroom. It’s 2 mini-units used to create a larger unit focusing on teaching students to think from a global perspective. Using the backwards planning method (learned about in our class textbook, Understanding by Design), I first created strong objectives to teach into the essential understandings [...]
Integrating Reading & Writing in Social Studies
Posted in L1: Learner centered, S1: Content driven on January 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This lesson plan was designed to help struggling readers and writers in a middle school social studies class. The lesson revolves around the idea of Manifest Destiny and westward expansion. Specific strategies were implemented to make sure that students of all reading and writing abilities would be successful. EDRD 6530 Reading/Writing Lesson Plan Written December [...]
