Saturday Classes - 2nd Grade
IPTS Standard 2 - Content Area and Pedagogical Knowledge - The competent teacher has in-depth understanding of content area knowledge that includes central concepts, methods of inquiry, structures of the disciplines, and content area literacy. The teachers creates meaningful learning experiences for each student based upon interactions among content area and pedagogical knowledge, and evidence-based practice.
IPTS Standard 8- Collaborative Relationships - The competent teacher builds and maintains collaborative relationships to foster cognitive, linguistic, physical, and social and emotional development. This teacher works as a team with professional colleagues, students, parents or guardians, and community members.
Description of each plan: In this unit, students will work with the primary theme of superheroes and symbols. This lesson plan was created for second grade.
Rationale for each plan: In this unit, students will imagine themselves as a superhero and create bracelet cuff that explores symbols in relation to their superhero. Students will also complete a comic strip that provides more context to their superhero (background or a short story about them). The unit will provide students with the opportunity to think about what problems (things that bother them) are common in their community and how their superhero can help make the community better.
Evidence:
Link to Lesson plan here
Link to Superhero Questions here
Link to Superhero Story here
Link to Comic Strip Examples here
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Classroom Setup: We arranged the tables in this classroom into a giant U. We did this to optimize our ability to walk in and check-in with students. Throughout the classroom, we had visual supports hanging on the walls such as posters describing line, a poster for our vocabulary words, miscellaneous superhero posters, and superhero masks.
Saturday Classes - 4th Grade
IPTS Standard 2 - Content Area and Pedagogical Knowledge - The competent teacher has in-depth understanding of content area knowledge that includes central concepts, methods of inquiry, structures of the disciplines, and content area literacy. The teachers creates meaningful learning experiences for each student based upon interactions among content area and pedagogical knowledge, and evidence-based practice.
IPTS Standard 8- Collaborative Relationships - The competent teacher builds and maintains collaborative relationships to foster cognitive, linguistic, physical, and social and emotional development. This teacher works as a team with professional colleagues, students, parents or guardians, and community members.
Description of each plan: In this unit, students worked within using the design process. This lesson plan was created for fourth grade.
Rationale for each plan: In this unit, students will design a small felt badge that represents a state park. In previous classes the students will have learned about parks and their importance to our country and communities. Utilizing this knowledge, the students will analyze badges and how they are used, then will create one of their own accordingly.
Evidence:
Link to Lesson plan here
Link to State Park packets here
Classroom Setup: In this classroom, we actually had only 12 students so we ended up setting up only 3 large tables and splitting up ourselves as teachers into each group. Throughout the room, we also had multiple visuals of other State and National Park designs.
PROFESSIONALISM, ADVOCACY & LEADERSHIP: PAL 1
IPTS (2013) STANDARD 9 - Professionalism, Leadership, and Advocacy - The competent teacher is an ethical and reflective practitioner who exhibits professionalism; provides leadership in the learning community; and advocates for students, parents or guardians, and the profession.
Description: In my free time this past month, I read the book "Educated", by Tara Westover. This book is a memoir reflecting on the life of the author, growing up in rural Idaho and being kept out of school, not receiving a formal education until she was 17 years old. Westover now has earned her PhD and living in England.
Rationale: I truly believe everyone should read this book. The author places a significant perspective on family dynamics, social and political outlooks, and what it took for her to get an education and walk away from it all. The entire read is inspirational and heart-tugging.
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Description: This documentary showed the life of animator, Floyd Norman. Norman was one of the first Animators hired by Disney and was the first African American animator hired by the company. The documentary goes on to show document the rest of his success and career as an artist.
Rationale: This fall, while researching for our Pinterest Board project, I went down a rabbit hole of researching the first animators of Disney. I was fascinated by the process of how these first animators created these stories and just how they were able to create these projects in the 50's and 60's.
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PROFESSIONALISM, ADVOCACY & LEADERSHIP: PAL 2
IPTS (2013) STANDARD 9 - Professionalism, Leadership, and Advocacy - The competent teacher is an ethical and reflective practitioner who exhibits professionalism; provides leadership in the learning community; and advocates for students, parents or guardians, and the profession.
Description: This fall I was asked by a classmate to photograph an annual horse show that she is a part of. I am using this as both of my Pal's as this was a two day event. Each day had different classes as well as different show and/or races.
Rationale: Being a photographer I can teach my future students simple and more complex photography skills as well as editing programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom.
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