Sister Chaffin
Portfolio Project Planning Guide
Ages and Stages of Development
Family, Culture, and Society
How might a safe environment impact students’ ability to develop metacognitive skills?
How might we teach about and support cultures, ethnicities, and unique families while upholding the truth?
How might educators create a safe, welcoming classroom community that celebrates diversity and enables all children to thrive?
DELIVERABLE: How might we celebrate and strengthen students unique backgrounds in the classroom?
Physical and Brain Development
To what extent does our physical health impact our ability to think critically?
Field Project
How might reciprocal teaching develop collaborative skills, provide opportunities to think critically about a text, and apprentice students to become effective communicators?
How can educators scaffold students' ability to use this strategy with fidelity?
Why is it so highly rated? What might this look like in the real world?
Connections Case Study
RI.-12.7 Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words in order to address a question or solve a problem. on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
Knowledge Construction Map
Focused goals lead to student engagement and learning
Goals, Self-Regulation, Metacognition
Reflective Notebook
“A man’s true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else, on frequent self-examinations, and a steady obedience to the rule which he knows to be right, without troubling himself about what others may think or say, or whether they do or do not do that which he thinks and says and does.”
"God works through the positive power of his love. When we truly learn to love God, we learn to love all things—others, ourselves, all creation, because God is in all, with all, and through all. We need not be afraid, and we need not hide behind a facade of performance. When we come to understand this unknown treasure—the knowledge of who we really are—we will know that we are entitled to the power that comes from God. It will come when we ask for it and when we trust his leadership in our lives. Our efforts should not be to perform nor to conform but to be transformed by the Spirit. Again, “Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”