7/06/23
Effective Teaching Reflections
- Emotional intelligence: To be in the present moment, try no to take things personal, is not your students fault how we feel so independently of how we are feeling always be profesional.
-That regardless all the factors and our surroundings its on the teacher the success of our students, there will always be something in our way so lets excuses and more action.
- Reflective teacher, focus on the process not only on the result.
-Modeling values.
"To educate is to guide students on an inner journey towards more truthful ways of seeing and being in the world" Palmer.
😍 (I LOVED THIS QUOTE)
What is learning?
Learning is understanding knowledge and being able to apply it in life, also having the ability to share with others with the main purpose of being a better version of ourselves.
Change - Actions. Learning makes a change in the way we see things or experience life.
Learning is the excitement of getting to know something new.
Learning is an Art-Form.
Its not about the product its bout the process.
We experience learning through out the process of trial and error with the purpose of changing the way we see life. Through our actions we gain knowledge and understanding of the world around us.
Learning is Growth and growth is the increase in learning.
ACTIONS-KNOWLEDGE-UNDERSTANDING.
Identify the problem: Mr. Noyes, we can identify that your students are not engaging with your class and with any other instructions that you request. We believe that the reason is the lack of social and emotional connection between the teacher and the students. The teacher has to show interest in order to obtain interest from their students.
Social Emotional connection with students.
Concentrate on the purpose not activities
Set high expectations for students
Define your goals, to have CLEAR goals for yourself and your students.
The teacher is not being reflective with himself and the blame is on students when it should be the other way around.
Improvement on this teacher 👀
- Classroom Management.
- Learning issue
- Professional grow
09-06-23
I was very surprised when I knew that controversial teachers were the ones that are usually fired... and most cases are effective teachers.
My question is, Why if a teacher has been teaching for too may years at a school and its ineffective there're no consequences and a teacher that tries to innovate and make a change for the good of their students, in that case thats wrong...
Makes me wonder.... Why some schools are so afraid of change? Why instead of looking at those teachers as opportunities to grow, they look at them as a threat?
I believe that here at the JFK that happens a lot, and I also believe that we as school, staff is lacking of emotional intelligence. Instead of being here for the only purpose of learning, sometimes personal stuff comes first and the point of view is not that clear when they involve feelings.
In this class, I ended with a lot of "why's? in my mind. I don't know how but WE HAVE TO CHANGE THIS.
I loved when my professor said, "We do not need permission to lead or to be a leader".
12-06-23
This class I learned that an effective teacher identify their barriers that might occur during a class, before actually giving the class, so that way we can be prepared in advance.
Depending on the lesson that we are giving there are different types of barriers regardless our students learning abilities.
We should customize every class to make it effective and meaningful but with guidance and some limitations, specially for lower grades.
I still don't know how I'll redesign my lesson plans if school its pretty rigid with it or even my workmates... I feel a little stuck with the flexibility of collaboration at my school :s and I feel our coordinators don't care.
13-06-23
-The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have. —Vince Lombardi.
-why, what, and how of assessments.
-Most educators use assessments primarily for two reasons: 1) to evaluate students’ progress along a continuum of learning targets and 2) to plan instructional improvement.
Assessments: Burning questions I ask my self...
1. Why is the same assessment for everyone if we are supposedly a differentiated school?
2. Why we only evaluate students 50% formative assessments and 50%summative assessments and we do not count home works, projects etc... mainly the process we only evaluate the result?
3. if they are absent we assess with what we have.... its this real reflecting what they are learning?
"Teachers don't like to grade-students don't like numbers" Cameron J. (Us teachers have to come up with many alternatives)
"We all need people who gives us feedback, thats how we improve" Bill Gates.
I analyzed the importance of having different products of assessments to not only measure growth on content, but on skills also.
14-06-23
Today I learn that we shouldn't categorize the learning of our students and I Realized that the rubrics that we actually use are not really working.
The importance of UDL is designing barrier free learning environments also assessments should be different, we shouldn't asses the same if our students learn differently.
There are tow domains of learning; the affective domain and the cognitive domain. I believe that the JFK because it's an IB school should focus more on the affective domain for students self-management.
Reporting: Effective teachers, report improvement that has occurred rather than how far short of the assessment criteria or standard the student has fallen.
🙌 Proximal development - "Where we're and where we'll be"
Accomodation -> Students Responsability
Modification -> School Policy, drive is not an option.
I found it ver practical to apply the theory of the 4 drivers that consists in mainly 4 basic needs and drives. Acquire - Bond - Comprehend - Defend. For each lesson, I can ask my self How am I applying this concepts.
15-06-23
Positive Grading - Do I categorize the learning of my students?
Learning and types of learning activities that i'll be focusing in incorporating?
Problem solution Outcome (PSO)
- Can we agree upon the problem?
- Find a problem we can all agree on?
- What is going to cause the least amount of problems?
Finally with our teams. we looked at important things to implement in our classroom to improve our teaching skills and strategies. For example:
Priority
Routine - Provide mastery-oriented feedback and self assessment tools to guide self-regulation. Like the running records
Character education connections - in the unit or outside - compliment the social emotional
Bump it up wall.
Pineapple visits
Differentiation - Scaffolding
Lectures and direct instruction
Start lecture or teacher led discussion with a provocative question, quote, or point of information.*
Start with KWL (i.e., what do you know, want to know, what did you learn?) questions.*
Offer glossary or dual language dictionaries for novel vocabulary.
Ask learners to record thoughts or questions in a backchannel or on index cards that can be passed to the teacher during a break.
Use lyrics, mnemonic strategies, and chunking. (Chat GPT).
Question and answer
Permit students to choose which question type they will develop.
Share rubric expectations.
Use call sticks to determine when individuals or groups will ask questions.
Use multiple ways to list the types of questions to ask.
Allow wait time.
Drill and practice
Adjust levels of challenge as appropriate.
Provide timely, meaningful feedback.
Provide a rubric with defined expectations.
Use multimedia to summarize new content, draw conclusions, and identify similarities and differences
Establish personal learning goals for each session.
Permit physical movement
Reciprocal teaching
Define group participation and roles clearly.
Provide mastery-oriented feedback and self-assessment tools to guide self-regulation.
Provide alternatives for participation, including assistive technologies.
Collaborative learning
16-06-23
Today we worked in our project and by working in teams I could solve a lot of questions that I had, specially in differentiating the learning goals vs the Enduring Understanding. Also I believe I've learned a lot since first class and I can tell that I can change a lot about the way I teach and plan my lessons. I also think that if we implement the UDL in our school or at least in my classroom, my teaching will be more meaningful, measurable and my kids will be engaged and will learn, which is the most important part.
Thank you very much! 😊
