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Wow --  your last reflection! It's hard to believe we are almost at the end of student teaching!

Because you will be reflecting on your own teaching in our last seminar and in your final evaluation conference, the focus of this reflection will be on what you have noticed in your observations of others' classrooms now that you have "teacher goggles" on. What have you noticed about the dynamics of other classrooms, different teaching strategies, assessment designs, student participation/ engagement, and/or classroom management approaches?

We are proud of each of you! Looking forward to your thoughts!

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Wowzers!

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ignore thumbnail (yikes) 😭

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Exclusive I filmed it

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As you begin to return some classes back to your mentor teachers and we near the end of student teaching, we'd like you to reflect on your observations this semester. Please review your observation notes - from your university supervisor, your mentor teacher, your WS-TEACH folks (as applicable), and other observers of your classroom. Notice patterns & themes across your observations. For this week's reflection, please reflect on what you notice about:

(1) how your practice has improved,

(2) what you are still working on, and

(3) something for which you have consistently received praise.

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No Padlet this week - weather permitting, we're meeting at Dough Joe's in Reynolda Village on Fri 4/4 after school. We'll have donuts!

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Yay!

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week 11????

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Thorn.

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I can’t record right now so I’m going to type it out. I think the benefits of the edTPA are the reflective aspects. It really makes you think thoroughly about what you are teaching and why you are teaching it. You have to be really intentional about things which is a good practice to have.

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It was a good day 🥰

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Welcome back! We hope you had time to rest and enjoy yourselves over the break last week.

1. As you consider the edTPA work that you have done so far, we want you to consider what aspects of edTPA planning and/or implementation seem beneficial to you. In other words, apart from the high-stakes, something-we-have-to-do aspect of edTPA, how might it improve the quality of your teaching? What does it make you consider that you may not otherwise think about?

2. Open question: tell us about a rose (high point) and a thorn (lower point) from your week! Are there any other questions you'd like to discuss?

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No padlet this week :) Enjoy your spring break! We hope you have some time for rest!

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Who knew the hardest part of student teaching would be getting these padlets to upload

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#ISurvivedFilmingWeek

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Woohoo!

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Yippee!

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As an example for what your reflection might be here, perhaps I rate myself/ my classroom as a 3 on the passive/active learners scale; a 4 on the classroom environment scale; and a 2 on the evaluation scale. In my video reflection, I'd talk about these areas and how/why I rate myself these ways.

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The midweek weekend was nice!!

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I was told a "teaching reality" lesson today: Every time you have a really good day, count on a day from hell tomorrow. Maybe it was a fluke because of the snow days and the weekend. Has anyone else experienced this? I'm still proud of my students for the work they did, but I'm wondering if this is a true phenomenon.

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I’m a cold call believer. I do it all the time. I think it adds a good level of stress and I usually pick at quiet students who I have already confirmed their answers and want to make room for their voice. Otherwise men will dominate a class. I know this as someone who lives life like a white man.

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Taught a total of 2 days this week but it's fine 😭

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Hi everyone! Here are your reflection questions for the week! Please be sure you are waiting until Friday (or maybe late Thursday) to record your responses --- we want you to have a full week of teaching to reflect on when you respond to these!

For your reflection this week, we want you to think about the type and quality of questions that you ask your students. We know some of the questioning strategies to avoid such as...

(a) Cold-calling - Asking questions without giving students much time to think (which benefits those who are quick thinkers but not others) or using questions as a form of punishment for students who aren't paying attention

(b) Pseudo-questions - Questions that pose as questions but are really teacher-designed to provoke a very specific answer (closed rather than open)

(c) IRE patterns - Teacher initiates, student responds, teacher evaluates response. How can we make sure that we as the teachers are not always the initiators and evaluators of every question?

With these "question patterns to avoid" in mind, we can conversely prioritize effective questioning strategies that (a) are open-ended, (b) provoke critical thinking, (c) are initiated by students, (d) encourage multiple perspectives, (e) encourage analysis/synthesis, (f) build from concrete to abstract, (g) connect to students' lives, (h) promote collaboration, etc.

Keeping both of those categories of questions in mind, please reflect on the following:

1. As you reflect upon the questions you have incorporated into your lessons this week (and even those that arose organically), how would you characterize the type of questions that you typically ask? What types of responses do your questions elicit from students?

2. In what ways would you like to improve your questioning strategies (or the role of questions) in your classroom moving forward? What might this look like?

3. Open Reflection: What else would you like to talk about based upon what happened in your classroom this week?

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Happy Valentine's Day!

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Happy friday everyone!

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how's it almost edtpa week 😭

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Week 5

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Keep on truckin'

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Using padlet mobile continues to be the bane of my existence. Who owns these servers. Why is this 2000s internet speeds。

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Teaching is pretty cool.

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I can barely tell you what day it is (we have only been in school 19 days) That is crazy!!!!

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week 4

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week 4 (already???)

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Hi everyone! Looking forward to hearing your responses to the following questions:

1. Differentiation: Tell us about the students in your edTPA class! What have you learned about their interests, their backgrounds, their academic strengths and needs, and their class personality? How has this information shaped your instruction and how have you adapted/composed your edTPA sequence with them in mind?

2. Grading: Some of you have indicated that you are now responsible for grading student work. How is that going? What questions do you have about how to assign value to students' responses? Is it challenging to follow the system or approach that your cooperating teacher uses? What would you mimic and what would you change in your own classroom?

3. Open Question: What else would you like to discuss based upon your teaching this week?

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Week 3 week 3

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Happy Friday!!

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Happy week 3!!!

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The awesomeness of low stakes questions (Would you rathers?)

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Don't worry this is not what I wore to school today. It was a"get in comfy clothes immediately" type of week.

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Week 3

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What a pleasure to "see" each of you in action this week!

1. Teaching Identity: We have discussed in the past some of the psychological challenges involved with shifting from "student mode" to "teacher mode." As you begin to teach classes independently, your role seems to change overnight. You are now the adult in the room with the responsibility/authority/expertise that goes along with that. Reflect on this new teaching identity. How is it going?

2. Pedagogy: As you are beginning to teach lessons independently, how are you measuring the “success” of a lesson? Level of student engagement? Evidence of learning via assessments (formative or summative)? Amount of participation? Written feedback from students?

3. Celebration: Describe a moment from this week that deserves to be celebrated - even if it was brief or seemingly inconsequential. Tell us something good! :)

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These upload speeds continue to be atrocious. The developers of Padlet are so cheap imma redact their name from my action research.

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Mikayah Week 2 Week 2 🎉