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This was a group assignment where we took photos and created a video on Animoto to represent what portage means to us.

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Animoto turns your photos and video clips into professional video slideshows in minutes. Fast, free and shockingly simple - we make awesome easy.

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Knowledge content for 9 step lesson plan

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Knowledge content for 9 step lesson plan

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I made a lesson plan about how to shuffle cards and this is step by step how to do it. Created on Prezi.

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How to shuffle pressing the cards 1. Right before you start the shuffle, place your index fingers onto the middle of the cards. 2. without letting any of the cards slip, carefully press down with your index finger Releasing the cards 1. with your hand firmly held in the correct position, slowly release the cards from your thumb.

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TPACK What does TPACK stand for? What does TPACK mean? * For a teacher, TPACk is all the ways they incorporate technology into their classroom.

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Animoto turns your photos and video clips into professional video slideshows in minutes. Fast, free and shockingly simple - we make awesome easy.

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This is a list of criteria that every teacher should include in their practice. This is a list that I would suggest every teacher have and modify to their own teaching style and preference. I will use this list to begin and as I teach and learn more, I will adjust the list to fit my own style.

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What are your fundamentals of teaching? I asked myself this daunting question when I took over a college course on the foundations of education. The syllabus required that I address the history of our current school system, debates over reform, standards and testing, teacher preparation, and more.

I also wanted to highlight for my students the essential ingredients that had enabled me to have success in my teaching. For that, I needed a list.

I'm a compulsive lister. From a running tally of favorite writers to the menu of school-approved lunches on my fridge door, lists populate every corner of my life. A list is many things: memory device, record of ideas generated, dynamic display of knowledge.

A list is starting place and end product, often the first task when wading into a complex issue, and often the last task when development is done and implementation begins. I think of lists as both ground floor and roof.

To list my fundamentals of teaching, I started by recalling core aspects of my elementary school classrooms. I added what I've learned while teaching higher education. I noted what I admire in my three sons' teachers and my colleagues. I researched. I asked a colleague who was teaching another section of the course to make her own list, and we met over coffee to deliberate.

Some items, like social justice and family engagement, fell off the list and landed in a file of beliefs and ideals. Others, like growth mindset and a culture of error, were combined. When I was done, my list contained 12 points-the dozen elements I believe are necessary for my teaching success.

My Teaching Fundamentals

1. Content knowledge: Know the material. If it's new, I study-a lot-before I teach.

2. Intentionality and preparation: My colleague brought "intentionality" to the table. I brought "preparation." Know the core thing you wish to teach each lesson, and prepare exhaustively to teach it.

3. Differentiation of instruction: Carol Tomlinson has it right-use differentiated lessons and assessments to target various learning styles.

4. Flexibility: Assess, formally and informally, as you teach, and adjust when your plan isn't working.

5. Classroom management: Design your classroom system-organization, routine, ebb and flow of movement-carefully, so your class stays productive, avoids chaos, and remains ready for the unexpected.

6. Growth mindset and a culture of error: I love Carol Dweck's TED talk on teaching students that they can learn, as well as Peter Johnston's work on dynamic theory and how we can signal to students that learning involves taking risks and making mistakes.

7. High expectations: Something I'm constantly working on is how to convey-through word choice, tone, gestures, and facial expressions-my high expectations of students... and how to cope when they still don't learn.

8. A community of mutual respect and safety: Students can't learn if they don't feel safe.

9. A student-centered, student-created environment: Create a space where students have agency in planning, creating, and evaluating. It's more than just walls covered in student work.

10. Real life: I used to call this "real-world connections." But my education students have taught me that being in the classroom is, simply, living. Teachers are real people, students are real people, and content and conversation originate from and return to the world outside school.

11. Professional development and constructive teacher collaboration: Always be learning, from conferences, media, research studies, and, perhaps most importantly, colleagues.

12. Joy: Joy is common to all classrooms and teachers I most admire and celebrate.

The list has continued to evolve since that first go-round, changing a little each semester with new terms or arrangements. And my students always take to it. As they read, research, discuss, and observe pre-kindergarten though grade 12 classrooms wearing their teacher-candidate hats, they seek evidence of each fundamental.

But the list continues to be essential for me as well. It reminds me of the complexity of teaching, but also serves as a tool to cut through that complexity. It guides my preparation as a teacher of teachers, as I am tasked to exhibit the fundamentals while exploring them with my class.

I even hold the list in my mind when I meet with my sons' teachers, talk with other parents, and discuss with my husband our children and their development. My list represents my core beliefs about what children deserve as they learn and grow.

What might you include on your list of fundamentals? Does it depend on your school context and culture? Your own strengths as a teacher? Your values as a citizen? Consider setting a number of points, like 12, and sticking to it. See how creatively you can combine things or peel them apart. Scrutinize which items are truly fundamental and which are not. (I wrestled with "timely technology" for a while.)

Discuss your list with colleagues, design a professional development task, and ask your students for feedback. Listing is a useful exercise that can open up new pathways for discussion, collaboration, and profound thinking about our profession.

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What Are Your Teaching Fundamentals? | Edutopia

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What are your fundamentals of teaching? I asked myself this daunting question when I took over a college course on the foundations of education. The syllabus required that I address the history of our current school system, debates over reform, standards and testing, teacher preparation, and more.

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Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

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Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

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Rita Pierson: Every kid needs a champion

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Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, "They don't pay me to like the kids." Her response: "Kids don't learn from people they don't like.'" A rousing call to educators to believe in their students and actually connect with them on a real, human, personal level.

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This little video really made me think. I absolutely love to read and the only thing keeping me from reading faster and thus more information is how long it takes for my eyes to move. Think of How much more we could learn and take in if we could read like this all the time

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Elite Education

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A mock save the date I designed using Canva

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A mock save the date I designed using Canva

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In this assignment I assessed the web 2.0 too Canva which is a design tool and the Slack app which is a communication app.

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App Assessment part 2 Debbie Du Preez.pdf