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Year 4
Year 4
Practicum II - Winter 2023
Practicum II - Winter 2023
Competency Development: Provides clear explanations with rich language and examples (TQS 3b)
Goal During Practicum: During my practicum, my goal is for each lesson I teach, I will give clear expectations and examples of what the task will look like. I will also make sure to give students the opportunity to ask questions about the expectations. This will keep students on the right track and know what they need to do to achieve success.
Growth: The image shown is a way I used the board for multiple paths for learning. For my group of grade 4 students, there were a variety of needs. In my lesson, I used sentence starts to help get the students on track for their value rock write-up. This gave students an opportunity, regardless of their level, to complete the task comfortably and achieve success.
Year 3
Year 3
Practicum 1 - Fall 2021:
Practicum 1 - Fall 2021:
Competency Development: Communicates and monitors high and achievable expectations in student friendly language (MRU B.Ed. Program Outcomes FL 4, TQS 3a, 3b).
Goal During Practicum: I have witnessed my Mentor Teacher delivers her expectations and goals for students in a very student-friendly and straightforward manner. Therefore, my goal is to tell students what their goals should be at the beginning of each class and lesson to keep our class geared in the correct direction.
Growth: At RancheView, they use a 6 point grading system that ranges from limited to mastery. My students were very high-achieving and had intrinsic motivation to receive mastering grades. When students were getting ready to begin a new project or assignment, I ensured to explicitly tell students what I was looking for in order to receive a mastery grade. I found that this had students setting goals for higher success and they didn't feel cheated because they "didn't know what they were supposed to include in their assignment". I made my rubrics available to students on Google Classroom so that they had access to what was expected of them on the assignment. Before assessing my students, I made sure that my expectations were clear for myself so that I was assessing fairly, and for my students so that they knew what exactly I was assessing.
Year 2
Year 2
Winter:
Winter:
Growth: This semester, doing the novel study for the book Wonder by R. J. Palacio, I learned a lot about long-term planning. For this project, we worked in a group of five, which taught me just how important and helpful it is to collaborate with others to get other ideas that may be more creative or transform and better my own ideas. This was a very beneficial assignment for learning how to long-term plan and was a great introduction to what it looks like.
Goals: My goals for next year is to collaborate with my peers more often when forming my lesson plans and receive their feedback on how to make lessons better or more engaging and beneficial for my students.
Fall:
Fall:
Growth: This semester I learned different ways to facilitate learning in ELA. Small-group instruction and large group instruction can be used for different purposes and teachers will intentionally pull groups for small-group lessons based on their reading-level or a skill they are struggling with. For my lesson plan that I created, I chose to do a whole class read aloud to get the message of the book across to all students.
Goals: My goal is to experiment with small-group instruction more and get exposed to what that type of lesson would be composed of.
Year 1
Year 1
Winter:
Winter:
Growth: This semester, I got to experiment and try out different ways of facilitatig learning to see what kind I enjoyed and thought was most beneficial. I found student engagement to be most valuable. When the students are engaged and having fun, enjoying what they are doing, they are able to learn more effectively. Having a hook to a lesson and giving students the opportunity to participate in activities that go along with the lesson makes them retain information and learn more effectively.
I have attatched a photo of an activity that the students did while we were learning about patterns. The students had to make their own patterns with different materials and explain to the teacher what the base pattern was!
Goals: I am excited to learn more ways to faciliatate learning and further my understanding on what kind of learning I should be facilitating. I want to encorporate more ways to facilitate learning in other lessons that I do over the next few years to get more of a feel for what kinds of ways to facilitate learning is the most beneficial in certain instances.
Fall:
Fall:
Growth: This semester I have had the opportunity to observe my mentor teacher use a variety of strategies to make students more engaged in the class. From my observations, some key strategies for optimum engagement in the classroom are teaching kinesthetically and integrating games, and hands on activities in student learning. I have noticed that having students reflect on past learning and applying it to their own world helps them to retain information and be able to apply their learning. With subjects that are harder to engage students, for example math, I have noticed that a big part of student learning in math includes games. The students play each other in math games to challenge each other and work together.
Goals: I am very intrigued of the different ways that student engagement can be created and increased in the classroom. I hope to expand my knowledge on how to incorporate the outside world into my lessons for optimum engagement and interest from my students.
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