Educational Portfolio
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Special Education Work There are other Special Education Lessons throughout this page in various categories.
Behavioral Observations (name has been changed) These observation reports were written while observing a student in an elementary school inclusive classroom. I have included the summary, as well as the three behavior records I kept.
The assessment administration is a paper about the experience of giving a diagnostic test to a peer. I gave the Peabody Picture Vocabulary test to a peer in my class, and reflected on the experience of administering and scoring the test. |
Social Studies Lessons This unit is designed to introduce fifth graders to inventors through a variety of cross-curriculum lessons.
Taxation Without Representation In this fifth grade lesson, students will explain how both sides of the conflict felt about the taxes imposed.
In this fifth grade lesson, students will write take on the persona of a colonist and write about the feelings they face as they move to the "New World". |
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Science Lessons Gravity Science Trail & WebQuest This is a two-part fifth grade interactive lesson. First, the students are asked to go into the field and explore falling objects. Then the students follow-up this activity by learning more about gravity using several web-based activities.
This is a third grade lesson designed to introduce students to measuring.
In this 5-E format lesson, second graders are asked to explore Oobleck and its properties.
This is a fifth grade lesson designed to introduce students to the parts of a plant.
In this fifth grade lesson, the students will explore the contents of soda. |
Music Lesson This lesson uses several activities to teach students how dynamics add a new quality to a song.
Math Lessons This lesson was created for a Mildly Mentally Handicapped class. The lesson teaches the students how to use ordinal numbers.
In this third grade lesson, students predict whether a situation is certain, likely, unlikely, or impossible.
"Yummy Gummy Subtraction" Lesson This lesson was created for a Mildly Mentally Handicapped class who was learning subtraction. The lesson teaches the students subtraction using gummy bear manipulatives. |
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Content Papers This paper looks at the reasons and research about why teaching art is important for students.
This paper explains a possible behavior management plan that I will use in a classroom. It includes a classroom sketch, a parent letter, a list of possible procedures, and a list of possible expectations and consequences I will use in my classroom.
As an honor's project, I spent 60 hours observing two pre-schools. This is a paper comparing the two pre-school programs.
As an honor's project, I spent a day observing four elementary school classrooms to see how teachers differentiated their instruction in the classroom.
This paper will share what I have gained from my content and methodology classes at Manchester College. I hope to share how I have grown as a teacher throughout my years at Manchester College.
I spent seventeen hours tutoring two fifth grade students. As I participated in this field experience I used my knowledge of several theorists to supplement my experience with these students.
This paper explains the significance Manchester College's liberal art's program has had in my teacher preparation. In this paper, I share how the liberal arts program has caused me to expand my horizons and broaden my perspectives about life.
The credo is outlines my teaching philosophy. I wrote this paper in my Introduction to Teaching course. It is based on my agreements and disagreements with several teaching philosophies.
Tutoring Experience This paper will be available in January of 2007. I will assess, diagnose, create a plan of action, and tutor an elementary school student in reading. Throughout our sessions together I will collect pre-test and post-test data, as well as visually graph the information to show the impact this tutoring experience has had on this student.
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Literacy Lessons Trade Book Activities The trade book sheets are lesson ideas for trade books. There are two lesson ideas, with standards included for each book below. English: Postcard Writing English: Story Writing English: Memo Writing English: Point of View English: Friendly Letter English: Editing English: Newspaper Advertisement Social Studies: Travel Brochure
This is an outline for a fifth grade focus unit based on the novel Land of Hope, by Joan Lowery Nixon.
"The Reason for Seasons" Web Lesson This is an interactive website that I created with a partner to go along with the book The Reason for Seasons, by Gail Gibbons. The website provides before, during, and after reading internet activities for the students to do as they read the book.
This lesson was designed to be used in a fifth grade classroom at the beginning of the school year. The students use Venn Diagrams to get to know their peers.
In this first grade lesson, students use a game to work on rhyming words.
This is a fifth grade lesson that combines letter writing with a Social Studies standard in a unique way. The class is encouraged to write letters to each state to learn more information about the fifty states.
In this third grade lesson, the students learn about story conflict by creating a Mandala.
"Predicting Gloria's Moves" Lesson This is a lesson for a third-fourth grade Mildly Mentally Handicapped class. In this lesson the students learn to use a comprehension reading strategy.
" ReQuest and Story Drama Strategies" Lesson This is a fourth grade lesson designed to introduce students to two different reading comprehension strategies. |