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Classroom Management...continued/

The most powerful tool for improving classroom management  is the use of honest self-reflection and self-assessment on and about teaching practices and the classroom environment where the reflection is accomplished systematically and analytically.

Section 4:  Classroom Management Plan Rules and Procedures On the first day of class, list the procedural rules for entering the classroom such as:  Shoes and Hats Off Before Entering; Calmly; Quietly; Hands and Feet to Yourself; Shoes and Hats Placed in the Your Cubby; Jackets or Sweaters Placed on Your Hook; Take a Seat on the Thinking Mat.  Once the students are seated on the Thinking Mat,…

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Classroom Management Plan

Section 1 of 4:  Description of Setting The professional settings in which I served as an in-school mentor and as a literacy and mathematics tutor was in three different public elementary schools in the southern Ontario, Canada, in the region of Peel.  One of my students was in grade eight in a middle school in Brampton, Ontario, northwest of Toronto.  Another student, whom I tutor mathematics,…

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Do you know a non-reader or someone with difficulties learning to read?

Do you know a non-reader or someone with difficulties learning to read?

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Reading with Ease: An Alternative Method

Reading with Ease: An Alternative Method

by Elaine M. Peters

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Its procedures are based on decades of literacy research which recommend the use of direct one-to-one…

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The examples of learner materials and activities for the unit lesson about numbers and their word representations were part of my artifact collection of evidence that supported my Professional Growth Plan (PGP) besides the informal and formative assessments.

Learning materials included:

1.:

A) An Identifying, Reading, and Writing Whole Numbers reference chart containing the number words for the ones place (0 to 9) with visual quantity equivalences

B) number words for the teens place (11 to 19) with visual quantity equivalences

C) number words for the tens place (10 to 90), and the numeric and word form of one hundred with visual quantity equivalences

2.  samples of a formal wedding invitation or birthday or other type of formal invitation

3.  sample of a written cheque

4.  samples of imitation currency in the form of coins and dollar bills

5.  National Geographic Kids magazines

6.  children’s Movie magazines or other special interest children’s printed media

7.  The Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Canada informational text or Canada Year by Year or similar texts

8.  Magic School Bus graphic novels  or similar

Learner activities that generated learner work products to verify student understanding about whole numbers in their numeric and word forms included:

Create Your Own Whole Number Words Puzzle for others to solve

Unscramble the Scrabbled Tiles with a game chart a learner uses to print the whole number word they unscramble from the pre-selected tiles that fit within categories of numeric numbers 0 to 10, 11 to 19, 20 to 29, 30 to 39, 40 to 49, 50 to 59, 60 to 69, 70 to 79, 80 to 89, and 90 to 100

Numeric and Word Form Whole Number BINGO

Numeric to Word Form Whole Number Word Searches in three different levels of complexity plus an opportunity for a student to develop their own Whole Number Word Search for others to solve

a Whole Number Numeric to Word Form Crossword puzzle plus an opportunity for a student to create their own for others to solve.

  The following are examples of Learner Materials:

 a through c

2.  Formal wedding or birthday invitations or similar to show number word representations

3.  sample of how numbers and their word representations are written on cheques

4.  samples of imitation currency (coins and bills) – active exploration

5.  National Geographic Kids magazines – active exploration

6.  children’s Movie magazines – active exploration

  7.  The Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Canada informational text or Canada Year by Year or similar texts – active exploration

  8.  Magic School Bus graphic novels or similar – active exploration

    The following are examples of Learner Activities:

Create Your Own Whole Number Words Puzzle for others to solve by putting the puzzle pieces together – “Number It Up” – learners cut their puzzles along the dotted lines, solve their own, then switch with peers.

2.  Unscramble the Scrabbled Tiles with a game chart a learner uses to print the whole number word they unscramble from the pre-selected tiles that fit within categories of numeric numbers 0 to 10, 11 to 19, 20 to 29, 30 to 39, 40 to 49, 50 to 59, 60 to 69, 70 to 79, 80 to 89, and 90 to 100

3.  Numeric and Word Form Whole Number BINGO

4.  Numeric to Word Form Whole Number Word Searches in three different levels of complexity plus an opportunity for a student to develop their own Whole Number Word Search for others to solve.

5.  a Whole Number Numeric to Word Form Crossword puzzle plus an opportunity for a student to create their own for others to solve.

Assessment and Improvement of Instruction – Learner Materials and Activities The examples of learner materials and activities for the unit lesson about numbers and their word representations were part of my artifact collection of evidence that supported my Professional Growth Plan (PGP) besides the informal and formative assessments.

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Assessment and Improvement of Instruction:    Types of Informal Assessments

Assessment and Improvement of Instruction:    Types of Informal Assessments

Hand Signals:

Ask student(s) to display a thumbs up to indicate they understand a specific concept, principle, or process; a thumbs down if they do not understand; and a waving hand if they are not completely sure about a specific concept, principle, or process.

Visual Representation (Web, Concept Map, Flow Chart, or Time Line – as appropriate to the lesson):

Ask student(s) to create a visual…

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Assessment and Improvement of Instruction - Artifact Collection Summary

Assessment and Improvement of Instruction – Artifact Collection Summary

My artifact collection of evidence that supports my Professional Growth Plan (PGP) included informal and formative assessments, learning materials, as well as learner activity work products.  In addition, the artifacts I collected helped to inform me of the progress I was making toward my PGP.   Moreover, my variety of evidence provides higher measures of accuracy, validity, and reliability on…

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Assessment and Improvement of Instruction: Professional Growth Plan

Assessment and Improvement of Instruction: Professional Growth Plan

The purpose of the exercise to utilize a tool such as the Professional Growth Plan is to use data appropriately in documenting and assessing instructional performance as well as to support professional learning.  This process of planning and implementing self-directed professional development will help educators / administrators identify areas needing improvement and provides opportunities for…

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Assessment and Improvement of Instruction: Classroom Observation

Assessment and Improvement of Instruction: Classroom Observation

This work represents my first use of classroom observation criteria to focus and guide my observation of a primary educator’s botany lesson, which had been previously video recorded for this type of instructional viewing.

The Reflections section of the Classroom Observation Form will be the topic of a future blog post.

References

Danielson, C. (1996). Enhancing professional practice: A…

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Assessment and Improvement of Instruction: Focus of the Observation  

The formats for focusing observation about an educator’s efficacy and effectiveness in the classroom used in my own school board district in Southern Ontario is restricted to the comprehensive framework outlined by the Ontario College of Teachers’ Standards of Practice for the Teaching Professionthrough the implementation of the Teacher Performance Appraisal (TPA) system (OCT, n.d.; OME, 2011a). …

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Assessment and Improvement of Instruction:   Effective Teaching

Assessment and Improvement of Instruction: Effective Teaching

One concept related to knowledge about effective teaching that I chose to summarize from the province of Ontario’s professional teaching standards, Costa and Garmston (2002), and the Danielson (2007) text is Community of Learners that Involves Families and Community Members.  This concept is referred to in two of the Ontario College of Teachers (OCT, n.d.) standards:  Leadership and Communityas…

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Introduction: Assessment and Improvement of Instruction

Introduction: Assessment and Improvement of Instruction

Studies of communities of professionals determined that they have common beliefs or behaviours associated with the idea of professionalism.  These common beliefs or behaviours include the sharing of a common body of knowledge (curriculum) as well as the use of standards of practice put into practice when exercising their knowledge on behalf of their clients (students).  In addition, professionals…

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Standards Based Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment:  Synthesis and Summary of Daily Self-Reflections

As educators transform their daily practices and their experience shifts in the way they think about the process and procedures of teaching and learning, it is important for them to take time to consider how these changes impact their environment, their students, and their colleagues.  Keeping daily self-reflective logs focused on considering:

how one’s perspectives and practices are changing

how…

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Standards Based Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment: Final Instructional Unit Plan Using The Understanding by Design Template

SECTION A:   Introduction

My name is Elaine M. Peters.  I live in Caledon (one of three parts of Peel Region, which is comprised of Mississauga, Brampton, and Caledon), Ontario, Canada.  Since 1990, I accumulated twelve years of entrepreneurial and professional adult education experience in the field of automated litigation support.  I both sold specialized litigation support software and trained…

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Standards Based Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment:  Collaboration

Collaboration in my professional setting was not a natural part of the daily work of instructors.  Sadly, this truth parallels Tomlinson’s (1999) account of educators being indignant of colleagues being innovative or perceived as expending more energy on lesson planning than they do — unless it was the special education teacher, teaching assistant or itinerant teacher from the school board. …