Learning from Teaching and Learning with the Internet (CI 5361 Blog 1)

For much of the 2020-2021 school year, teaching and learning with the internet was a necessity versus a pedagogical choice. The learning model (distance, hybrid, or in-person learning) our school was engaging in most heavily determined the technology tools and platforms I incorporated into my lesson plans. In hybrid environments, where learners were asynchronous and …

Lesson Delivery & Classroom Management (Sample Lesson- Six Traits of Writing)

Overview The instructional presentation and analysis below detail my experience delivering a “Six Traits of Good Writing” AVID-notes presentation to a ninth-grade English class. I describe how my co-teacher and I considered Freire’s concepts of banking (passive) and active instruction when designing the lecture, attempting to make it dialogic and interactive. Using theories of student …

How do Authors use Rhetoric to Advance their Work’s Purpose? (English 10 Unit Planning)

As part of my student teaching experience, I designed this PreAP curriculum-aligned unit to teach to tenth-grade students in a suburban high school. Below, I provide the teaching context, daily lesson plans, instructional materials, and assessment plans for the unit. In the context section, I explain how my school’s context, student population, and curriculum expectations …

What Factors Contribute to Our Individual Experiences of Climate Alteration? (English 8 Unit)

Overview In the reflection below, I examine an incident I encountered while tutoring and eighth-grade student and describe what this incident taught me about how young teen’s desire to explore and further define their identities impacts the way they engage with subject-area content. Applying my learnings from the experience on which I reflect, I present …