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Winter 2025
Winter 2025
Understanding of the Competency:
Understanding of the Competency:
Fostering an inclusive environment was central to everything I did this semester. With a high number of ELL students and various learner needs, I consistently focused on building relationships, ensuring cultural responsiveness, and using UDL principles. I used visuals, translated vocabulary, alternative seating, fidget tools, and targeted supports like personalized schedules to ensure every student could access the learning. I also prioritized trauma-informed practices and supported regulation through quiet zones and body breaks when needed.
Goals and Strategies for Continued Growth:
Goals and Strategies for Continued Growth:
I want to deepen my trauma-informed practice and further support neurodiverse learners. I’ll continue learning about strategies like co-regulation, sensory tools, and social-emotional check-ins. Attending PD workshops, collaborating with specialists, and reflecting on individual student needs will help me keep improving in this area.
Differentiated Visual Supports and Classroom Regulation Tools -->These classroom tools demonstrate my effort to support a range of learner needs and promote self-regulation. They reflect my commitment to equity and to creating a classroom where all students feel safe and supported.
IMG_7966.MOVFall 2024
Fall 2024
Through my workshops, I have gained valuable insights and advice on fostering a positive and inclusive learning environment. I aim to maintain and apply what I have learned to create a space where students feel safe, respected, and engaged in their learning. My teaching philosophy aligns with this goal, emphasizing differentiation, inclusivity, and student-centred approaches. By integrating these strategies into my classroom, I will continue to develop an environment that supports diverse learning needs and encourages student growth. This ongoing commitment will ensure that my classroom remains a place where all students can thrive academically, socially, and emotionally.
Rebekah Waldron | Philosophy of TeachingFall 2023
Fall 2023
Goal - I aim to cultivate an inclusive and supportive learning environment where students feel comfortable and connected, fostering a sense of community within the classroom.
Strategy - To achieve this goal, I will proactively engage with students, encouraging open communication and collaboration. I will incorporate icebreaker activities, group projects, and discussion forums to create opportunities for students to interact and build relationships. Additionally, I will be attentive to individual needs, provide constructive feedback, and foster a culture of mutual respect.
Growth - My goal of fostering an inclusive and encouraging environment for learning in which students felt at ease and connected as a community was met with success. In my everyday lessons, I promoted inclusivity by integrating interactive teaching methods, encouraging physical interactions with the smartboard, and fostering a culture where students actively participated and helped one another. On my final day, I received goodbye letters from the students expressing their sadness at my leaving. They expressed how I created a genuine sense of belonging and community in our classroom. These letters were a heartfelt confirmation that my efforts to foster a positive learning environment had a long-term impact on the students' experiences.
Future Goal - My SMART objective for the upcoming school year is to increase student engagement and active learning in my classroom. I'll make use of project-based learning and hands-on learning techniques in my lessons to accomplish this. By the end of the year, I want to have a dynamic learning space that meets the needs and interests of a wide range of students, thereby raising the standard of instruction I offer.
Winter 2023
Winter 2023
Goal - I want to create a safe and inclusive classroom environment by the end of the semester where all students feel respected and valued. At the end of the semester, students will feel safe and welcome in the classroom, as measured by daily involvement.
Strategy - To achieve this, I plan to implement strategies such as clear classroom rules and procedures, promoting active listening, and providing opportunities for diverse perspectives to be shared. These strategies are relevant to my role as an educator and align with the school's mission to create a positive and inclusive learning environment for all students. Through my classroom management case study, I am committed to regularly reflecting on and evaluating the effectiveness of my strategies to continuously improve my classroom environment and ensure that all students feel valued and respected.
Growth - Working towards my goal of creating a safe and inclusive classroom environment has been a significant growth experience. Through my classroom management case study, I have successfully implemented strategies such as clear rules and procedures, active listening, and promoting diverse perspectives to create a learning environment where all students feel respected and valued. Reflecting on my teaching practice and seeking feedback from my students has been crucial in continuously improving my classroom management strategies and achieving my goal. I am committed to continuing to refine my teaching practice to create a positive and inclusive learning environment for all my students.
Future Goal - My future goal is to enhance student engagement and promote active learning in the classroom. I plan to achieve this by incorporating more hands-on and project-based learning activities that cater to the diverse learning needs and interests of my students.
Classroom Management Case Study OfficialFall 2021
Fall 2021
Goal - To go about following my professional responsibilities, planning, facilitating and assessing learning I need to provide students with an inclusive environment. My goal for creating that environment is by supporting cultural diversity in my teaching.
Growth - I needed to focus on making sure the resources or visual content I provide support and show cultural diversity. I used books, resources, videos, and websites, that show different races and cultures for my students to feel welcomed and noticed. Students should not be shown or taught only one race or culture because they are all different and unique and deserve to be seen. I did this by using a video during my lesson that had many different races of students.
Winter 2021
Winter 2021
It is important for teachers to create a welcoming, caring, safe, and respectful environment for their students that include the physical appearance, social climate, success in learning, and improvement of the home-school-community relationship as outlined in The Walk Around: Teacher Companion Tool. The workshops that we were given clearly showed how being inclusive and respecting and understanding differences in the classroom, leads to the children feeling safe and believing that they belong in the classroom. I plan to create a classroom that is physically, socially, culturally, and psychologically secure, but to do that I need to have a deeper understanding of the socio-cultural factors, diversity and the influence it plays on teaching and school culture.
Fall 2020
Fall 2020
The teaching environment is very important for students' success. Just as it is important for a child to go home to a safe environment with people they are comfortable with and can continue to learn and grow in, the same goes for the classroom environment. A teacher must provide their students with an environment that they feel comfortable in. They must be able to have a safe space in the classroom if they cannot attain one at home. This environment can be obtained by planning a classroom environment that is physically, socially, culturally and psychologically secure. This will create the safe space they need which affects their ability to learn and their attitude towards learning.
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