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My Philosophy of Education:

A teacher should do everything in love. When I think of love, I think of 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. Love is more than a feeling it is an unbinding commitment. Education is a ministry that can only be done through love.

Dream job:

In all honesty, if I wasn't going to be a teacher, I would be a marine biologist at Disney's Aquarium in Animal Kingdom. Though my calling is to be a teacher. My dream teaching job is teaching ESL students for a small school district. I would love to be able to interact with students from pre-k to 12th grade. I don't have a dream state or specific area. Instead, I would be at peace anywhere as long as it's the Lord's will.

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Standards are educational benchmarks according to grade and subject. The Arkansas Academic Standards are found on the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education website.

https://dese.ade.arkansas.gov/Offices/learning-services/curriculum-support/arkansas-academic-standards

1) Standards guide curriculum, which is why it is crucial for teachers to be aware of, understand, and unpack state standards. This allows for practicality, ensures rigor, and guarantees a viable, paced, and completed curriculum. Using understanding by design (UbD) and Webb's Depth of Knowledge (DOK), a teacher may determine the power standard (the standard with the highest numerical value after adding Ubd and DOK) and the supporting standards (all standards in the unit besides power standard).

2) How will standards be applied? Starting with a pacing guide, a teacher may use standards to create established goals, enduring understanding, essential questions, knowledge goals, and skill goals. Through the assessment plan, the teacher will use the power standard and supporting standards to formulate instructional objectives/ outcomes and design a formative and summative assessment. Finally, the teacher will design a lesson plan according to the standard of her choice.

3) The first key elements that come from standards is the pacing guides big idea, which is broad and abstract, and a macro view of a unit. The big idea may be created from recurring nouns from the state standards. Enduring understanding is the one concept teachers want their students to take away from the unit based on the standard.

The essential questions are based on and lead to enduring understanding. Knowledge goals are concepts, vocabulary, or figures from the unit standard. Skill goals use verbs directly from the standards.

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Motivation is the process that energizes, directs, and sustains behavior. Motivation is the drive for student engagement and effort in their learning.

1) 4 perspectives of motivation: behavioral (incentives), humanistic (personal), cognitive (mental), and social (relationships).

2) Intrinsic motivation, which is the internal desire or drive to learn. Four types of intrinsic motivation include Self-determination, interest, cognitive engagement, self-responsibility, and optimal experiences/ flow. You may increase intrinsic motivation through autonomy, mastery, and purpose. An example of this is creating sports-themed word problems for students who are interested in and passionate about sports.

3) Extrinsic motivation is external motivation, such as rewards or punishment. It narrows focus, dulls creativity, restricts possibilities, and decreases thinking. It is best to be used during instructional time, note-taking, and overall serious time. Praise as a reward should be used towards effort rather than just result. For example, praising a student for taking their time on an assignment, focusing, taking advantage of resources, and trying their best.

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Assessment is a form of checking for student understanding. Through assessment, the teacher will interpret student progress, skills, or misunderstandings. Within the teaching process teaching comes first, assessment second, and adjustment is third.

1) Summative assessments are major assessments at the end of a long period of instruction (i.e., final exam, state test). Formative assessments are minor assessments used for establishing goals, responding to student work to improve their work, and modifying and improving instruction (allowing for reteaching). Providing frequent formative assessments can increase student retention and retrieval of information and improve student self-responsibility for their learning. It is crucial to use a range of tools and strategies.

2) Teachers should be aware of the types of errors students are making. Four types of errors include factual, procedural, transformation, and misconception. As a teacher be able to ask yourself what misconceptions or assumptions students may have, how will you check for understanding, what evidence are you looking for to prove understanding, and how will you plan for future instruction. Teachers should view assessment as a photo album rather than a snapshot, in other words, they shouldn't overanalyze an assessment but rather analyze several assessments to measure students' growth and skill.

3) What are some of the most effective ways a teacher can increase students' understanding? By using different techniques of oral language, questioning techniques, writing assessments, and quizzes/ tests. An example of each includes think-pair-share, sticky note responses, summary writing, and a multiple-choice quiz.

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Instructional strategies are used to help students be engaged in and retain what they're learning. The overall goal is for students to be able to work independently or collaboratively while transferring their knowledge to different areas of learning.

Nine Instructional Strategies by Robert Marzano

1) Identifying similarities and differences: thinking maps, Venn diagrams, analogies, cause and effect links, and compare and contrast organizers. For our group lesson plan, we used Venn diagrams to complete a lesson on local vs state governments.

2) Summarizing and note-taking: teaching models summarization techniques, identify key concepts, bullets, outlines, clusters, narrative organizers, journal summaries, break down assignments, create simple reports, quick writes, graphic organizers, column notes, affinity diagrams, etc.

3) Reinforcing effort and providing recognition: hold high expectations, display finished products, praise students' effort, encourage students to share ideas and express their thoughts, honor individual learning styles, conference individually with students, authentic portfolios, stress-free environment, high-fives, etc.

4) Homework and practice: recall, recite, and review learning for the day at home, reflective journals, informing parents of goals and objectives, etc.

5) Nonlinguistic representation: visual tools and manipulatives, problem-solution organizers, spider webs, diagrams, concept maps, drawings, charts, thinking maps, graphic organizers, sketch to stretch, storyboards, etc.

6) Cooperative learning: Integrate content and language through group engagement, reader's theatre, pass the pencil, circle of friends, cube it, jigsaw, shared reading and writing, students tackle tasks and word problems in groups and explain their answers, etc

7) Setting objectives and providing feedback: articulating and displaying learning goals, contract learning goals, etc. Objectives must be based on standards and should describe the performance you want learners to be able to exhibit before you consider them competent.

8) Generating and testing hypothesis: thinking processes, constructivist practices, investigate, explore, social construction of knowledge, use of inductive and deductive reasoning, questioning the author of a book, finding other ways to solve the same math problems, etc.

9) Questions, cues, and advance organizers: graphic organizers, guiding questions before each lesson (essential questions), think-aloud, inferencing, predicting, drawing conclusions, skim chapters to identify key vocabulary, concepts, and skills, foldable, annotating the text, etc.

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Technology is a vital tool for enhancing teaching and learning within the classroom. Digital tools include computers, tablets, Smartboards, online platforms, educational apps, and so on.

1) I included a link to my Google Site because blogging itself is a great classroom tool. Within my blog, I used other online platforms and tools like Padlet and Screencastify. Throughout the semester, I found several other online platforms I plan to use in my classroom, such as Peardeck, Khan Academy, Edmodo, etc. Because we live in a digital age, I think it is important for a teacher to explore different educational platforms for the benefit of the students

2) The use of technology can increase student motivation and engagement. Technology also fosters interaction and collaboration. The internet is also a great place for endless research and exploring. Many platforms also may be personalized according to a student's ability, interests, and learning profile.

3) While technology is amazing, there should be a balance. The downsides of technology within the classroom are overdependence, reduced social interaction, distraction, and plagiarism/ cheating. Teachers should have a limit on screen time for their students, plan for face-to-face social time, and teach students about digital citizenship.

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"Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you. " Philippians 4:9

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Classroom management. (n.d.). Edutopia. https://www.edutopia.org/topic/classroom-management/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNPFwCbA_mE&ab_channel=TeachingEnglishwithOxford

(Class handouts and notes)

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^(Click photo to go to the Edutopia link)

Classroom management is a concept in which teachers formulate techniques, procedures, and rules to regulate their classroom. Classroom management is the dynamic structure between the teacher and the students. The goal of classroom management is to create a safe, organized, motivating, and engaging environment.

1) It's important to understand there is no one-size-fits-all solution to managing a classroom. Students won't always act the way a teacher wants at all times. This is where patience, mercy, and understanding come in.

2) Requirements for a classroom: awareness, patience, good timing, boundaries, and instincts.

3) Firstly, a healthy classroom begins with a healthy teacher. Instructors should be sure to take care of their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. Teachers should focus on building relationships with their students, families, and colleagues.

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