WEEK TWO - APPLY:
Create a Professional Learning Plan. Include the following criteria in your plan:
Answer the following inquiry questions:
❏ Which specific CSTP element will drive your J-Factor Inquiry focus? List the specific standard element.
The standard I chose to drive this cycle is Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning Element 1.4 – Using a variety of instructional strategies, resources, and technologies to meet students’ diverse learning needs.
❏ Where am I now? In regards to your chosen CSTP and current level of teacher and student joy, where are you now? Describe your current reality.
As a new teacher it is very important to stick to curriculum and follow it closely to understand the the scope and sequence,
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the predictable pattern, and different strategies used. As a second year teacher with the same curriculum I find that I am now able to use the curriculum as it is and add to it to make the lesson more engaging for my particular students. ❏ Where am I going? In regards to your chosen CSTP and current level of joy in teaching and learning, what would you like your reality to be? I personally find the curriculum alone a bit stale and boring to teach, so I can only imagine how it is for the students. The curriculum requires a lot of direct instruction, which has a crucial role, time, and place in learning. However interaction, fun, and collaboration is a very important part as well. I would like to see a little less teacher directed and a little more teacher facilitating instruction mixed in with the direct instruction of the curriculum. ❏ How can I close that gap between REALITY and IDEAL? ❏ What specific action will you take? Which of the 5 Joy Factors will you integrate to increase your students’ joy? How will you increase your joy? ❏ How will you ensure success for your special population students identified in Cycle 1?
In order to increase the J factor I am going to incorporate both drama, song, and dance, and fun and games into my lesson. I will ensure all students success by including sentence frames, progress monitoring, and teacher observations. I am convinced the special population students will benefit the most if engagement is increased.
The Lesson- I will be teaching point of view and perspective. Through this lesson students will be expected to identify the point of view of stories based on clue pronouns. We started this lesson by taking notes on four different point of views and the clue pronouns associated with each point of view. Then we discussed stories we have read and their point of view. Finally we ended the lesson with a writing assignment where each student had a picture and they had to write a story about the picture in first person, second person, and third person limited and omniscient. The following day the first assessment was given. The next week we reviewed the lesson adding the J factor to it. I created a prezi reviewing our notes taken the week before, this included a fun point of view song by flocabulary. Then we played a mingling game. Each student has a card with a passage from well-known novel, poem, or story. Their job was to mingle around the classroom and when the singing stop the first person they saw was their partner. They were expected to read their card to the
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partner. Then the partner had to use the accountable talk statements provided to identify the passage point of view. After playing this game the students completed the worksheet in their skills book. Finally as an exit slip we played an online game on Kahoot It! This is a fun interactive game that give points but most importantly provides the teacher with an excel sheet of each students results. The next day we took the second point of view assessment. ❏ Consider how you will assess the impact of joy on student achievement.
I will assess the impact of joy on student achievement through an online assessment given after general instruction and then a similar assessment after interactive lesson.
❏ Upload your Professional Learning Plan.
❏ Meet with your reflective coach to discuss your plan BEFORE you implement.
❏ Implement one of the 5 Joy Factors as a change in your practice.
❏ Capture up to 10 minutes of your implementation on video. Your video should demonstrate student learning through the integration of at least one of the 5 Joy Factors and include teacher facilitation and student
engagement.
This task should be fun and interesting for the students. It is my hope that this activity proves to be successful for my students and helps them to understand the necessary learning objectives set forth.
Stiggins, R. J. (2006, November/December). Assessment for learning: A key to motivation and achievement. Edge, 2, 3-19.
I thought this video was going to be very difficult, though we have been practicing it all semester. Once my partner and I got together to do this project I became more comfortable. I went over my weaknesses and my strengths on the previous group sessions and figured out what I need to work on and what I do well at.
Applying principles in curriculum, such as: balance, rigorou, coherent, vertical, integrate, appropriate, focuse and relevant make curriculum transparent and effective. These making clear of purpose of my curriculum in educational and sociological terms, being easy to understand and applied in measurable way. And I can say that learning is planned, ideas is introduces and learning is experienced.
In an identified video in ATLAS (Case #876), the language arts teacher did a great job in assessing her students. In this video, the students were analyzing the mental images in the poem “Loo-Wit”. The language arts teacher learning goal for the instruction was to allow the students to hear each other’s viewpoints about the poem. The students should be able to offer their own ideas with evidence so that other students can clarify and help the group’s progress. The teacher assessed the students by having a whole-group discussion. She allowed different students to share their perspectives about the poem based on the questions she asked. She assessed them on multiple-level questions about text to aid comprehension. The main assessment was seeing
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Professionally, I have stretched the limits of my own comfort zone, through embracing changes in curriculum and education and pursuing further learning opportunities. I am proud that although I have become a veteran teacher on my staff, I am the educational technology teacher. I trouble shoot various technological issues within our school and I have expan...
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This standard expresses the importance of supporting students so they can meet higher standards. Teachers will support students by having knowledge of all of the different areas of teaching and with a strong curriculum that targets everyone. I understand how important it is to help my students meet their personal learning goals through my teachings. I will be organized and simple english and instructions in each and all of my lesson plans. I will also take into consideration the different backgrounds that my students will have and how that may impact the way they learn.
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In the classroom teachers need to be flexible to put in to practice many different
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