During 2016-17, I volunteered at local middle school where I …
Rationale
This artifact supports my progress in my academic discipline of SPCE as well as mr professional develop as a teacher overall.
SPCE 376 Literacy Assessment
Description
For this assignment, we were required to assess a student in your practicum placement on the five different pillars of reading- phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension. It was our job to create an assessment, that was an appropriate measure, based on the students academic and grade level needs.
Rationale
I chose to ties this artifact in to InTASC 6. The reason I picked InTASC 6 was because it is a · formal tests for the classroom. It is also the carbon copy of a work sample that the student filled out. The assessment itself asks questions a a variety of different ways, testing the students’ abilities. It is a blank copy of the assessment that is, given to the school and is kept as a record for student and parent conferences.
SPCE 361 Halloween 5 Senses Lesson Plan
Description
My middle school students, were learning about their five senses, and how to use their five senses, in order to write essays- while using imagery. The focus of this lesson, the object itself, was a pumpkin. We then described the pumpkin in class using our five senses. This lesson we took it a step farther, the students started writing a story/paragraph, about the pumpkin. But first, we need to discussed how to write sentences using imagery—and the difference between sentences with good imagery, and sentences that do not. Imagery allows us to experience something/ see something that is not right in front of us—it uses specific details that make us feel like we expericenced it.
Rationale
I chose to link this artifact to InTASC 4 (2011)-DP3. The reason for this was because it was a lesson plan that correlate with state curriculum and showed the goals and objectives of the lesson. This specific lesson from a unit plan that was built and designed around a central question, which is– how do we incorporate imagery into our essays.
EDPS 345 Data Dashboard
Description
For this assignment our job was to create an Excel Spreadsheet Data Dashboard and it was to contain all the grades from ONE our courses that we took this semester—and it was our job to create an (imaginative) classroom list, and fill the gradebook with the grades from this classroom list. We did this with homework assignments, projects, quizzes, and tests—and we had to do this for at least ten students; it was basic summative calculations of aggregate (whole class) as well as the individual performance (averages, percents, etc.). We also create a grading scale, that we used to convert the accumulated score as well is a having to give each student not only an overall letter grade, but also an individual letter grades for each of the different assignment. We needed to create were graph, but they had to be graphs that actually meant something, we had to have graph for each individual as well as a cumulative classroom graph. The final requirement was that we had to design the Data Dashboard for everyday use—meaning that it had to be easy to use and easy to adapt.
Rationale
I chose to put this artifact under InTASC 6, was because it is essentially a grade book. It is a method the I have learned to make and follow, that will better assist me with monitoring my students progress, and allows me to create simple, and easy to understand charts, that compare the students performance based on the average of the class. Having one location, to look at the my students outcomes, will help me better understand my next course of action.
EDPS 345 Group Presentation
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For EDPS 345, One of my assignments was a group presentation, over an aspect of assessments. I was partnered up with another student in my class (shoutout to Harlee William), and we would create a 20 minute presentation over a give specific topic- ours was Response to Intervention (RtI). We had to create a crash course of what RtI was, and then integrate a form of technology, as a tool of assessment to use throughout the presentation. Below is a reflection of the presentation itself, screen shoots of the presentation, as well as screen shot from our method of assessment.
Rationale
I chose to tie this to InTASC 2, because it is all about the how as teachers, we use different strategies to connect with and meet the needs of learners. We had to discuss and figure out the proper method of presenting the information, as well as the proper way to assess our fellow preservice teachers, over the information that was being presented.
EDPS 345 Rubric
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For this assessment, it was our job to create a rubric that can be implemented in our future classroom/ career in or outside our future classroom. It could either be significant modifications to an existing rubric or it can be something you develop from scratch. This rubric could be on any topic in your curriculum, however, must contain the following: an identified performance task, three distinct rows that have been defined, three columns (qualitative differences), detailed cells that explain the relationship and between attainment and criteria based on the scale, and a measurement scale for the overall score. We could either build the rubric using rGrade or a different platform of our choosing.
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EDFO 420 Philosophy of Education Pinterest Edition
My paper to go along with my EDFO 420 Pinterest Board Philosophy
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EDPS 345 Assessment Unit
English Research Paper
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This research paper, was focused on how a previously observed special education classroom was run. It focused on the difference between assistance that is given at the individualized level vs. a group level, in a classroom setting.
Classroom and School Procedure
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This paper was an assignment for SPCE 266. It focuses on or observations of the class we were put in. We had to observe and reflect on how we would run our future classroom, based on our experience.
Sociology Essay
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This paper was an assignment for SOC 100. The focus of this paper was to connect a in class lecture, to a topic of interest. For this paper, we had to connect the lecture, to our favorite movie.
Summation
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This paper was a final reflection based on my experience at North Side Middle School, for SPCE 266.
My Lesson Plan
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I made this lesson plan for my SPCE 266 Practicum. The lesson plan was made for a small group of 7th and 8th graders. This lesson plan focuses on writing, and tips for becoming a better writer.
SPCE 331- iPhoto Montage
The project was to find 20 personal photos and upload them to iPhoto. The theme of my photos was Big High School events- Nights to Remember. The skill that I used the most was problem solving- finding the right amount of pictures, finding a song, and then uploading that song into the slide show. It took a lot of patience, however it will be a tool to use in a classroom. Students could use this for multiple thing such as: All About Me Projects, Wonder Indiana, Traveling Trips, and School Clubs could use this to show yearly events. In the future I will use this for Church functions, Family reunions, parties, and then when I become a teacher I will use this at the beginning of the year to introduce myself. Learning how to use iPhoto was a great tool to have.
SPCE 201- DP 1
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This is a paper for SPCE 201 about the first time I saw a person with a disability. It talks about my thoughts and how it change my point of view on people.
SPCE 331- Garage Band Project
Description
In this assignment, you will construct a small multimedia object called a “vodcast.” Vodcasts contain both digital photography or movies and sound, usually spoken narration. This vodcast will convey some form or a message to your audience about a topic you choose. This particular project will follow the same theme as your iPhoto Montage.
SPCE 331- iMovie
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In this assignment, we constructed a short video about an American historical event. We collected music, movies, and picture to describe he History event we chose.
SPCE 331- Excel
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In this project we used Microsoft Excel to make a grade book, like the one that we will use once we become teachers.
ADHD Paper
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This is a paper for EDPS 250, as well as my Decision Point 2. Decision Point 2 covers the topic of ADHD.