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 …
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 …
Overview Every action within the classroom is also a reaction; it is a response to the other bodies and ideas in the space, and therefore, it is a feedback tool I can use to improve how I am encouraging those bodies and thoughts to interact. Process journaling helps me trace behaviors to contexts. On one …
Overview In this reflection, I apply theories of intrinsic motivation to consider the ways that assessments designed to motivate students to participate, rather than measure and increase students’ mastery, may decrease students’ intrinsic motivation to engage in learning activities. The reflection demonstrates how I use theories of motivation and mastery learning to shape my assessment …
Overview In this reflection, I consider how the type and quality of an instructor’s feedback affects students’ perceptions of their abilities and, therefore, can increase or decrease students’ intrinsic motivation to engage in content-area learning activities. The reflection demonstrates my understanding of the ways that lesson activities or forms of instructor feedback that encourage comparison …
Overview In this analysis, I apply my understanding of theories of knowledge acquisition form Piaget, Vygotsky, and Freire to consider how the theories of learning to which instructors ascribe will impact their perceptions of their curriculum’s likelihood to reinforce the false notion of White supremacy and dehumanize Students of Color. I use Vygotsky’s theory that …
Overview In this paper, I discuss how a classroom context wherein I am fortunate enough to work with a co-teacher would impact my approach to lesson planning and instruction. Specifically, I discuss how collaborative teaching can support multilingual learners. Collaborative Lesson Planning and Instruction After reading Honigsfeld’s and Dove’s (2015) co-teaching and collaboration articles and …
Overview In this reflection, I discuss how the knowledge I gained about Second Language Acquisition through completing my Masters of Education program will influence how I differentiate instruction to support students acquiring English as an additional language. I describe Carlos, a student I met while volunteering in an academic intervention program, and discuss how my …
Overview As a White educator, my commitment to disrupting oppressive education practices must be as internal as it is external. I must recognize my own biases and take responsibility for how my actions perpetuate racist systems. Educating myself about how my White identity shapes my worldviews is an important part of that process. In the …
Overview: Teaching Formalist Criticism in a Multilingual Classroom New Criticism literary theory views the text as a unit of meaning, independent of its historical contexts, as well as the biographical information and “intention” of its author (The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica, 2018). New critics examine how the words, phrases, and structure of a text contribute …