Portfolio II: Knowledge Representation
The coursework completed during Portfolio II enhanced my teaching and leadership skills, strengthened my curriculum development abilities, and reaffirmed my desire to integrate creative approaches to delivering instruction and disseminating research. Higher Education coursework during this period included
• HE 602: College Teaching;
• HE 710: Leadership in Higher Education; and
• HE 792: Digital Storytelling.
The importance of curriculum revision and enhancement was an overarching theme during the Portfolio II period. I worked on a variety of projects to enhance the UNIV 100 (Introduction to Mason) course that I have been teaching at Mason for the past 3 years through the Center for Academic Advising, Retention, and Transitions. I teach a special section of UNIV 100 for first semester first generation college students, and am scheduled to teach a hybrid version again in Fall 2017. Enhancements I
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Using the backwards design method, I first identified the desired results (course goals), determined the acceptable evidence (assessments and projects), and lastly planned the learning experience and instruction (course content). In HE 710: Leadership in Higher Education, I also used the UNIV 100 course that I teach as inspiration to create modules relating to leadership. I enhanced the original version of course by weaving activities throughout the course based on High-Impact Practices and the Social Change Model of Leadership Development. The focus was on consciousness of self, controversy with civility, and citizenship. The redesign included journal entry prompts to encourage consciousness of self, a roleplaying activity to model communication skills during difficult conversations, and an included a required volunteering experience to help promote
In this section of your teaching portfolio, include a copy of your degree, teaching license, awards of honor and specialized training certificates. Adding these parts to your portfolio will give you as an educator the opportunity to illustrate your accomplishments and present yourself as a highly qualified
This is your opportunity to convince me that you have understood the key concepts taught in this class and incorporated them into the essays you have written. Remember, your Portfolio Reflective Essay should be a close, critical reading
Demonstrating Knowledge of Content and Pedagogy this component focuses on teachers having knowledge of contents and standards within specific grade level what’s developmentally appropriate and what’s not appropriate. Component A emphasizes on Knowledge of Disciplinary Literacy, Knowledge of Prerequisite Relationships, how did the previous year framework have direct correlation with the current school year curriculum? Having Knowledge of the Content and methods practiced of teaching, implementing the proper academic subject and or theoretical concepts. Component B demonstrates the knowledge of the learning process, and being aware of student s skills and knowledge level. Component C focuses on clarity of content, sequence, alignment and balance.
Kouzes, James, and Barry Posner. The Student Leadership Challenge. San Francisco: A Wiley Imprint, 2008.
Kouzes, J., & Posner, B., (2007). The leadership challenge, (4th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-
Instructor 1 assignment incorporated cooperation and collaboration as well as fostered a team environment so that all team members could reach their highest potential. As a team we were directed to establish goals, classify goals, define behavioral goals, evaluate objectives demonstrated through situations, measure assessment, collect performance data, and compare data with goals. This activity alone signifies that this instructor leadership model corroborates Grogan (2013), definition of leadership as he suggest that leaders are take charge individuals who solve problems along the way as they move towards achieving the vision. Other collaboration assignments included providing platforms in Blackboard, Morehead State University learning management
Before this course I had ample leadership experience starting from a young age with organized sports and most recently in military service, while I had a lot of time to hone a particular type of leadership style which was almost exclusively geared toward leading rough and tough young men. I soon learned that in this field that I would need to vary my leadership styles and methods because if I used my usual methods on a student
Kouzes, James M., and Barry Z. Posner. The Student Leadership Challenge: Five Practices for Exemplary Leaders. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008. Print.
This assignment is concerned with your understanding of the key issues relative to portfolio analysis and investment. In completing this assignment you are to limit your scope to the US stock markets only. Use the Cybrary, the Internet, and course resources to write a 2-page essay which you will use with new clients of your financial planning business which addresses the following issues and/or practices:
I examined the origin, organization and content of the curriculum. I also looked at how the curriculum should be implemented for best results. Through this analysis I was able to identify the benefits and weaknesses of the curriculum for the continued success of students academically and socially. The Student Learning Project was comprised of several components.
One of the topics in organizational development today is leadership. Leadership is what individuals do to mobilize other people in organizations and communities. According to Kouzes & Posner, there are five practices and ten commitments of exemplary leadership. The five practices of exemplary leadership include: Model the way, inspire a shared vision, challenge the process, enable others to act, and encourage the heart. In the Leadership Challenge, Kouzes and Posner found similar patterns and actions of leadership that created the essentials to achieve success. Utilizing the research conducted by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, I have created a leadership plan that would apply to the Admission Department at Texas Wesleyan University.
Students will identity areas for personal growth and development after they hear a short description of each capacity. Groups will then present what they found to the class. Famous Leaders Computer and projector Emotionally Intelligent Leadership: Student workbook 2.3 and 2.4 Pictures of 23 leaders built into a slideshow 50 Minuets As a class, we will discuss what makes a leader. Using prior material learned about consciousness of self and self-snapshot, students will rate each leader shown in the presentation using the eight capacities as each leader is shown.
The understandings I have gained from this course have completely revamped my way of teaching. I have been using the unit plan and curriculum map I created in this course for the past two years, and my students enjoy it more and more each year. Learning the importance of using big ideas and essential questions in the classroom have made me a better educator and has assisted my students in learning content and skills that they can transfer to all academic areas and into their everyday lives. I now use big idea and essential questions in every ...
Leadership is not a position or a title it is action and example. In this Reflection, I will write about course topic, Leadership examples and me as a leadership. In course topic, I turn to what was the most interesting topic to me, which topic I find it difficult and which topic I find it useful for the future. In the Leadership examples, I turn to the most interesting thing I learned about a famous leader. The most important thing that great leaders all have in common, and I describe one famous leader’s approach to leading. In me as a leadership, I turn to what did I learn about being a leader from doing the classroom activities. What I will do is I was given a job as an office manager after graduating and if I would like
In 1949, a small book had a big impact on education. In just over one hundred pages, Ralph W. Tyler presented the concept that curriculum should be dynamic, a program under constant evaluation and revision. Curriculum had always been thought of as a static, set program, and in an era preoccupied with student testing, he offered the innovative idea that teachers and administrators should spend as much time evaluating their plans as they do assessing their students.