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Google Forms for Communication & Feedback

Overview Observation of students’ reactions and behaviors is one of the main tools I use to understand if I need to adjust my instructional strategies to promote better student learning and to gain data that helps me decide how to modify a lesson. When first tasked with delivering asynchronous instruction during the COVID-19 outbreak, I …

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 …

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 …

Instructional Strategies to Improve Reading Comprehension

In this portfolio, I provide twelve instructional that strategies instructors can engage students in considering either before, during, or after reading a text. Alongside each strategy, I discuss concepts from modern literacy theory as rationale for why I believe the activity will increase student learning. The strategy portfolio demonstrates my ability to recognize which learning …

Perceived Incompetence and Avoidance Behaviors

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 …

Instructor Feedback, Self-Perception & Intrinsic Motivation

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 …

Considering Knowledge Acquisition Theories from a Critical Race Perspective

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 …

Valuing Linguistic Diversity

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 …