Demonstrating a Professional Body of Knowledge
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This is an activity I designed for my students as part of our final project in our second-grade graphing and data analysis unit. Students had to design a survey question to ask their peers and add it to their designated slide in a collaborative class survey. Once all the questions were added, each student could answer their peers' survey questions electronically by dragging their name to the column of their choosing.
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The students represented the data they collected from their survey question in a pictograph and a bar graph. They interpreted their graphs and answered questions about them at the end of the project.
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The Teaching Quality Standard says:
3. A teacher applies a current and comprehensive repertoire of effective planning, instruction, and assessment practices to meet the learning needs of every student.
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This artifact demonstrates my ability to plan learning experiences that incorporate technology in an effective manner. Students were able to build their technological capacities while collaborating with their peers in a meaningful way to enhance their learning. The electronic component of this project provided students with individualized data sets to interpret and evaluate to create unique final projects.
Grade 6 - Evidence & Investigation
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This is a unit plan that I created for a math and science integrated unit. This unit addressed eight different outcomes from mathematics, science, and language arts in the Alberta Program of Studies. The specific lessons and activities associated with each learning opportunity are explained for this fifteen-day unit. This unit plan was centered around evidence and investigation, but it also taught the students the measuring and graphing skills that coincide with forensic investigation. This unit also encompassed many different literacy and numeracy progressions, and it included most of the competencies outlined by Alberta Education.
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The Teaching Quality Standard says:
3. A teacher applies a current and comprehensive repertoire of effective planning, instruction, and assessment practices to meet the learning needs of every student.
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This artifact demonstrates my ability to plan for effective and engaging learning in the classroom. It shows that I am able to plan learning experiences that simultaneously address outcomes from a variety of different subject areas with an overarching theme. This artifact also demonstrates my ability to create science lessons that support inquiry-based learning through investigation and hands-on learning experiences. Furthermore, this artifact showcases that I am capable of creating math lessons that integrate the essential six: Math with the teacher, math with others, math by myself, math games, math with manipulatives/technology, and math writing.
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Grade 5 - Wetland Ecosystems
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This is a lesson that I constructed about wetland ecosystems. This lesson was designed for a fifth-grade science class. The lesson taught the students the role of producers, consumers, and decomposers. It also taught them about the impacts that human activity can have on wetland ecosystems. A worksheet to accompany this lesson was also created to support student learning.
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This artifact shows my ability to plan and execute lessons that can be taught in a regular or virtual classroom. Extensive teacher notes can be found at the bottom of each page. These notes outline how the lesson is supposed to be taught. This lesson also integrated a variety of instructions and activities. A fun video was added to help the students remember the role of producers, consumers, and decomposers. A digital categorization activity was also embedded into the lesson. Questions for an exit slip were also included at the end of this lesson.