Secondary Educator Licensure Portfolio

In my education course ED 343 Literacy in Middle and Secondary Education, I worked on a short fifteen minute vocabulary lesson that could be used within the 7th grade integrated earth science and mathematics unit I am developing. Below are the lesson plan, Nearpod presentation, and recording from the lesson I produced and taught. Rotate and Revolve Lesson Plan Nearpod - Revolve and Rotate  (The access code is "ONDTA".) Performance Criterion: 2(a) The teacher designs, adapts, and delivers instruction to address each student’s diverse learning strengths and needs and creates opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning in different ways. 2(g) The teacher understands and identifies differences in approaches to learning and performance and knows how to design instruction that uses each learner’s strengths to promote growth. In my lesson design and development, I focused on the assessment slogan "multiple times multiple ways".  In previous short l...

During my education courses Curriculum in Middle/Secondary Education and Literacy in Middle/Secondary Education, we have spent some time over the past few weeks discussing the impact and implications of adding technology within the classroom to produce a more dynamic learning environment. In doing so we produced several mock documents to inform parents and guardians as a school might when first incorporating a new personal technology into the classroom. In particular, I helped draft a mock letter to families detailing a fictional iPad initiative and a fictional technology contract for parents and students. Both of these items encouraged me to see the issue of technology through multiple lenses with an understanding of the diverse needs and concerns of individuals in my community. Personally these projects manifested the growing tolerance I've developed with the concept of digital learning.  While I recognize that there are several serious drawbacks and compromises with technology...