Teaching Performance Expectations for professionalism deal with the range of professional, social, academic, legal and ethical obligations I must meet with a sincere attitude and a genuine sense of obligation to observe and respond appropriately to accommodate students with diverse needs. My data organization, collaborative discretion, and attentiveness to detail is the key to my being able to accomplish these social, ethical, legal and academic obligations, and this is evident in my lesson planning, and organization and reflection process.
The following artifacts demonstrate my understanding of my responsibility to monitor and engage my students for these purposes. The Literature Connection artifact is centered around a highly engaging prosodic read-aloud, and offers a glimplse of my passion and broad and deep appreciation for cross-cultural learning, and my ability to maximize the use of folklore in motivating student interest, and use depth to accomplish broad coverage. These shared book experiences that prime students for contentare invaluable in creating a warm and trusting classroom environment. The 4th grade math lesson reveals my pedagogical and content knowledge for engaging multi-level learners, and accommodating their needs in a way that is enriching and engaging for all students. The range of modalities are addressed with an aim of 100% inclusion and participation. The collaborative desktop matrix for accommodating students with various impairments, and in particular orthopedic impairments reveal my attention to detail, and my innovative and cooperative approach to accommodating students with very specific capabilities and needs. Please also view the various artifacts that speak to my insight and ability to listen to my students, and pave the way for confidence in intellectual risk -taking in my classroom.
As a teacher, it is my intention to reflect often on the details of these of these artifacts and continually refine them, and add to the collection in order to keep abreast of the law concerning my interactions and observations of students for the best possible social, academic, ethical and legal outcome. I will mplement routines and activities that foster a sense of a caring academic and social 'community' in my classroom. I will take on the roll of a well-trained and experienced keen observer, and teacher and fulfill my civic duty in this roll in my community. Please view the attached artifacts that demonstrate my ability, training and insight to fulfill my civic duty as a teacher.
This Teacher Performance Expectation for professionalism requires that I demonstrate my ability to address Academic Content Standards, meanwhile routinely reflect upon and evaluate my own teaching and learning practices and subject matter knowledge in order to continually improve my teaching ability. I must demonstrate my ability to make productive and innovative use of feedback solicited from mentors and colleagues for planning, teaching and learning, and reflecting. The following artifacts demonstrate my genuine interest and ability to incorporate these critical professionalism ideals into my lesson planning.
The attached artifacts that demonstrate my ability to do this include : a brief essay derived from from research and explicit and implicit advice from with several literacy professor mentors. The brief essay explains how I will incorporate a variety of literal, inferential, and evaluative comprehension strategies into my lesson planning; a lesson plan inspired by a mentor history-social science colleague who specializes in the use of folklore for the beginning of a Japanese Feudal Era Unit of Study centered on the significance of the cherry blossom in Japanese feudal and modern culture and its significance to Japanese and American history; a list of procedures and practices made collaboratively by several teacher mentors and myself for maintaining a productive and engaging classroom environment.- Please also view a variety of other attached artifacts that demonstrate the invaluable teaching and learning outcomes of my habit of systematic reflection in many collaborative projects aimed to increase my content knowledge, and refine my teaching and learning practices.
In meeting this teacher performance expectation, I have realized the sheer power of collaboration in lesson design and planning of engaging, differentiated and intriguing learning activities. I have learned to use the content and language proficiency areas to be mutually supportive, and as one of many means to facilitate broad differentiation for multi-level learners with diverse special needs along with a variety of scaffolding accommodations. In my future classroom, I will solicit feedback early and often from mentors and colleagues to broaden my perspective, and maximize the efficacy of my lesson planning. Please see the attached supporting artifacts .
This Teaching Performance Expectation requires that I demonstrate that I will: exercise a "sound understanding of technology operations and concepts; plan and design effective learning environments and experiences supported by technology; implement curriculum plans, that include methods and strategies for applying technology to maximize student learning; apply technology to facilitate a variety of effective assessment and evaluation strategies; use technology to enhance my productivity and professional practice; understand the social, ethical, legal, and human issues surrounding the use of technology in PK-12 schools and apply those principles in my practice".
There are a multitude of ways that I will use, share and continue to learn about technology in the classroom, such as: teachers and students can create and/or publish a class and/or individual newsletter; teachers and students can share their technology articles and information in a “tech-corner café” in class and do show-and tell and inquiry of interesting new technology and its history; students can learn to keep an electronic grade book, participate in live chats with favorite authors, and a class blog as well as monitor a web syndicated class feed; students can run a rotating office production and management system in my classroom for hands on daily experience. These practices, along with age-appropriate group discussions about government, and science and industry will broaden the students’ perspective and lend them hands-on access. Please review the attached artifacts.
The attached artifacts reflect my genuine multicultural appreciation, insight and learning in lesson planning and activity design, the materials and authors to whom I subscribe, and my belief in the importance of reaching out and communicating to students, parents and community members in a genuine spirit of multicultural appreciation and inclusion, and as a professional in teaching.
My future classroom will benefit from the ambient of multicultural and multilingual appreciation in our classroom. Please review the following artifacts.
Advanced certification in bi-literacy requires that I demonstrate proficiency in English and Spanish, and that I recognize how to adapt pedagogical theories, principles and instructional practices for bi-literacy programs, and continue to strive to become an expert in program design, curriculum development, and implementation of such for program effectiveness. This will be affected with a variety of cognitive, cultural, and language assessments that demonstrate success toward a goal of maintaining and enhancing students’ use of a primary language as a second language and as a means for acquiring the language of target to produce students who are proficient in two languages.
The following artifacts are groups of lesson plans that show my abilities to design and develop and implement curriculum to meet these goals.
For example, Lesson Plan #2 and its accompanying script, ‘5 Fondo’s Culturales’
Shows my ability to adapt a variety of cultural reading passages to a ‘high interest’
collaboration and analysis exercise for which comprehensible pieces are reiterated and posted for note-taking in the target language. Lesson Plan # 22 is a reading activity in which students work in a variety of collaborative group settings to identify and apply a list of cognates, known current and recycled vocabulary to decipher the unkown from the the context of a a high-interest reading piece.-Please see other attachments as well.
In my future lesson planning, I will continue to design, adapt and use lesson plans like these two examples described above as well as many others I have attached along with their scripts. It is exciting to realize that language lesson frameworks can always be adapted to a target language and acquisition level, so I can take advantage of tried and true methods along with new language acquisition theory.