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Month: April 2021 (Page 3 of 3)
To be honest, I don’t really have a teaching philosophy yet. I have only worked with children for four years and most of the experience was within summer or after school camps. However throughout the last year, I have learned a lot about classroom management. Here are a couple ideas I would like to bring into my future classroom.
Social Emotional Learning
As a teacher, I am looking forward to bringing Social Emotional Learning (SELs) and self-regulation into my classroom. By teaching children SELs, we are teaching children to be empathetic and compassionate (which is something people are not born knowing). While children are young, we need to teach them how to properly feel their emotions and communicate with people. When children’s needs are not being met, they shut down. By teaching self-regulation, we are giving students the resources on what to do when they feel a certain way. Children that learn SELs may still throw an occasional tantrum, but they are more likely to know what is making them upset and try and fix the problem.
Gradual Release of Responsibility
I am so excited to use the Gradual Release of Responsibility (GRR) model in my classroom. Tying in closely with Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), the GRR model shows how lessons and units should be taught with the responsibility starting with the teacher and ending with the student independently. This system works since you are not throwing the students into the deep end but you are also not holding their hand the entire way through the lesson. By using the GRR model, the teacher creates independent learners that are responsible for their own learning. This also ties in with Inquiry, since students should not be expected to know how to think like an inquiry learner until the teacher shows them how.
Growth Mindset
A growth mindset is really important in a classroom since it impacts whether a student is going to be motivated to learn about the topic. If students are constantly anxious due to challenges and criticism, they will not feel safe to learn in my classroom. To increase a growth mindset, I will correct students when they say something like a fixed mindset. For example, if a student says ‘I can’t do this’ I will teach them to say ‘I can do this with some help.’ If students grow up with a growth mindset, their lives will constantly be filled with adventure since they are moving up to new challenges. Having a growth mindset will also improve anxiety within students since they will not back down from challenges and be confident in their actions.
Most importantly, I want to be the teacher that I would want when I was younger. Looking back, there are so many different activities and experiences I wish I had as a kid. For example, Outdoor Education was not as prominant when I was in elementary school. I am going to make sure I am always trying my best and creating activities that I am passionate about!
Throughout many classes, I have created a bunch of different lesson plans that span through english, science, physical health education and more! Here is what I have been working on!
Continue readingAs you have probably noticed, using French as an inquiry project was not working out. I was no longer engaged or excited to come up with new blog topics each week and this project became something I was dreading to do. To help with that, I decided to change my topic! My new topic is now elementary art projects!
I decided to choose this topic instead since I was having so much fun in my weekly art class. In art, we would get to complete a weekly art assignment for our art portolios. I have not completed an art assignment since I was in Grade eleven, so I am excited at the opportunity to start again.
In this inquiry, each week I am going to try and make a new art piece. I have found a whole bunch of artists and art teachers on different platforms that I will be able to take inspiration from. I have found different, websites, tiktoks, instagram posts, and youtube videos that show how to create different pieces of art.
Since I am making these all myself, I am also going to decide whether I would actually use them within my classroom and give some pros and cons to the different activities. This will just be from my experiences in classrooms and around students. I have never been on a practicum before, so I may decide that these activities are perfect in the future, when I get into a classroom.
I am so excited to share my journey with you and hope you are excited to follow along!
“And when things start to happen, don’t worry, don’t stew. Just go right along, you’ll start happening too!”
Dr. Suess
For our inquiry, Madeline and I decided to focus on learning about different educational platforms. As mentioned in the video, both of us had some prior experience using these platforms from when we were in high school; however, for me, I noticed that they are being used a lot more after I graduated. For this project, our question was: What are the pros and cons of Google Classrooms, Microsoft Teams, Edmodo, and FreshGrade?
Our relationship to education is that many of these sites are starting to be incorporated and used in classrooms, especially since the beginning of the Pandemic. Also, with the increase of technology in the classroom and with students, using these services might become inevitable, which is why we are researching them now.
Most of the pros, cons and risks of these platforms are listed within our video. However, one of the biggest pros that overlapped all of the services is that it connects students outside of school and allows for more diversity in assessments. Since many of these platforms are online and have chat features, they also allow students to connect with each other for projects or assignments. They can also connect with the teacher if students need help. As for different assessments, with technology, students can hand in assignments digitally allowing them to use voice recordings, videos, and presentations. Some common cons are the use of the internet and technology. Although it is somewhat obvious that these websites will need constant access to technology and the internet, some students might not have access to this outside of school. Finally, risks for all of these websites are privacy and who has access to the information.
The strategy I have learned from this assignment is to use technology however I can! It allows students, teachers, and parents to stay connected and engaged with what is happening in the classroom. I am really excited to try one of these systems within my classroom and ready to learn more through first-hand experience.
Throughout my time at UVic, I have had the opportunity to create and collaborate on some exciting projects. Here are a few I found especially interesting!