1_Self Study Project

1_Self Study Project

1. How do you build a lesson plan or test for a whole class while also focusing on individual needs?

   • Know your objective
     • Standards
       • Common Core
       • Formative assessments are key
   • Get to know your students
     • Strengths/ Weaknesses
       • Some kids take longer than others
       • Some kids are stronger in certain areas than others
     • Know their interests
     • Families and backgrounds
   • Create engaging lessons
     • Basal
     • Interventions
     • Differentiating
     • Literature circles
     • Reading and writing workshops

2. How do I record and apply records of learning performance to communicate progress?

   • Observation
     • Is student fully engaged?
       • Does student understand what they are learning during for example reading instruction?
         • Factual
           • Language
             • Chants, poems and songs
           • Guestures
             • "Show me what it looks like"
           • Facial Expressions
           • Turn and talk
         • Strong content standards
     • Appropriate time and place
       • Get comfortable
   • Documentation
     • Assessments
       • Checklists
       • Narrative
       • Anecdotal
       • Pedagogical
       • Time sampling
       • Running records
     • Display
       • Books
       • Powerpoints
       • Panels
       • Portfolio
     • Scaffolding
       • Teacher support
         • Prompting
         • Modeling
     • Front loading
   • Interpretation
     • Create new lesson plans
       • What changes am I noticing over time?
         • Proficient readers decide what is important at word, sentence and text level
       • What ideas and questions are children exploring?
         • Do they understand comprehension strategies?
           • Before
             • Activating background knowledge
             • Questioning
             • Predicting
           • During
             • Monitoring
             • Repairing
           • After
             • Applying
             • Responding
       • What developmental skills do my observations and documentation identify?
         • Proficient readers synthesize learning
     • Reinforce

3. How do you respond to a cultural difference in a classroom?

   • Humanize types of people that a student has never had an opportunity to interact with personally
     • Guest speakers
       • Invite family members and friends of children
     • Posters
       • Represent diverse children on walls in the classroom
     • Diverse books
   • Classroom activities and lessons toward multicultural appreciation
     • Paint pictures
     • Food from other countries
   • Appreciate their own culture and heritage
     • Write about it!
       • Journal
       • Be aware of grammar errors and grow vocabulary
     • Bring in something to describe their own families
       • Pictures and Artifacts
     • All About Me Project
   • Teachers should be life-long learners
     • Encourage children to speak to develop language skills
     • Teach children when/ where to use language appropriately
     • Encourage children to use background knowledge to generate new knowledge
     • Encourage children in altering schema
     • Give students assistance in class but also provide extra assistance
     • Encourage ELL's with low self-esteem
     • Understand that some institutional structures may disadvantage ELL's

4. How does a teacher create a safe, orderly and stimulating learning environment that nurtures responsibility, motivation and engagement of learners?

   • Create a love for learning
     • Play
       • Games
         • Dramatic play area
           • Readers theatre
       • Constructivism
         • Blocks, leggos, puzzles
       • Technology and Music
     • Projects
       • Phase One
         • What are you interested in?
       • Phase Two
         • Research and Discover!
       • Phase Three
         • Show off your expertise!
           • Make a web!
     • Sharing Time
   • Children are competent creatures
     • Pick their own learning centers
     • Child instructed lesson
     • Offer varied experiences
     • Child sized furnishings

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