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Welcome to my portfolio!
This portfolio will guide you
through my experiences and growth from a student teacher to
a teacher.I love the line my 4th grade cooperating teacher
would say: "I am still learning and adjusting my teaching
daily after 15 years in the classroom."
What she said was wonderfully
encouraging to me because during times when a lesson was
challenging, those words would ring through my head and
reassure me that there is no such thing as perfection every
minute of every day in this field.
Another colleague from the second
grade said that during days when things don't work out in
the classroom, the best she can do is always re-examine the
situation and ask herself how can she do things better
tomorrow or the next time. I think that the best thing a
teacher can do is to assess herself daily and find out ways
that she/he can improve her teaching for the next
time.
A personal goal which I have
therefore drawn from my own teacher education and student
teaching experience centers around the need, my need, to
consider the importance of daily reflection. This comes from
the center of my personal being and is in itself a
reflection of who I am ; that personally and professionally
I consider my life's work and goals in teaching as an
ongoing process where strategies, curriculum, lesson plans,
perspectives and understandings can change and may reflect
changes in the evolving school community, changes in
families and their structures and, in fact, changes in the
world. Because I feel committed to bringing forth the best
that I can for each child, I must be open and ready to grow
myself!
Other specific goals for my
teaching are highlighted in the Approach
to Education, where the
ideals which I am working toward as a teacher with
enthusiasm and devotion to the profession are
described.
The Classroom
Management Plan
highlights my objective in fostering independent thinkers as
well as self-disciplined students.
The Curriculum
Samples page has direct
access to my unit plan and three lesson plans. On the
curriculum samples page you will also find eight additional
links to assessments, rubrics, worksheets and student work
from my unit.
My Professional development
page can be accessed by a link in
my Evaluations
page.
Throughout my student
teaching experience, I have developed an interest in
pursuing a Montessori Elementary Diploma. I plan to begin
the first half of the training in July, 2005. This will play
a major role to further develop my skills at managing
differentiation. It will expose me to additional teaching
and learning philosophies and research, all which will help
establish me more as a highly qualified teacher. It will
also enhance the learning in my classroom because I will
have the knowledge to bring forth optimum experiences for my
students.
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