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I think one of the most important things I have realized
with this goal number three is the fact that I have always felt that I am an effective
teacher, but taking the Effective Teaching class at SDSU has taught me that
there is always room for curricular improvement. This class taught me to be
more reflective of the different models that I already teach and how I can
use these previously taught models and the new ones that I learned about to
make my curriculum and teaching even better. I feel that this class made me
realize some of the gaps that I previously had in the way that I taught some
of my curriculum. I covered state standards in my curriculum, but now I have
also created curriculum maps for all of my classes that have made me pay
extra attention to my curriculum so that I know how to teach it as
effectively as possible and organizing my curriculum in maps helps me to
identify any gaps that might exist in my curriculum versus the curriculum of
a colleague in my school. I can look at other curriculum maps and mine and
compare them to state standards and curricular goals to make sure I am
covering what I need to without excluding any important curriculum items. I
understand and feel much more organized with my curriculum that I teach. I
also put my lesson plans online weekly so that if students are gone they always
know what is in my lesson plans. Being organized with my curriculum has made
me a more efficient and effective teacher! I have a very enriched understanding of many models of teaching that have enhanced my curriculum which can be viewed here in Artifact 1. I have used some new models to enrich my teaching and one of them is the inductive model because it gets students to think more on their own and form concepts and ideas without a lot of guidance. Another model is advanced organizers because these organizers can present information to students in way that makes them recall and recap many things that they have learned throughout the year in an organized fashion. A third model is synectics in which I would use analogies to teach my students about new ideas. With Synectics students can develop creative responses to problem solving to help them retain new information and assist them in generating ideas to better understand a concept. The fourth model is the study of values and how I feel it would work well in role playing scenarios in a Spanish classroom. The last lesson I will be reflecting on is inquiry training which is helping student to learn to make inferences or hypotheses about what they are studying so that they will be able to test a hypothesis or inference to see if they were correct. Artifact 2 links further to four curriculum maps that I have created. The Curriculum maps are for 8th English, 9th English, Spanish III and Spanish IV. These curriculum maps have taught me to be a more efficient and effective teacher and have helped me find gaps that I had in my curriculum so that I could fill those gaps. They are a great guide for me to stay on task as a teacher and not to have too much overlap in what I am teaching. It also helps me show new teachers pre-existing curriculum and how I have organized it so that they can use my maps to help guide them as they map their curriculums. Organizing the standards with these maps has also helped me so that I know when I am teaching certain areas that match up with target standards. Then I can see what standards I am covering more and which ones I need to spend more time on and I can look at my maps to make sure I am varying my assessments. Artifact 3 is about learning to think inductively which is not always an easy thing for students to do. I chose this lesson to teach in Effective Teaching to my colleagues because I though it was the most difficult lesson and I don't use it very often as an educator, but I wanted to use it more. I wanted to create a power point that I could share with colleagues and a lesson that would show them how to think inductively and how to help students do this. With an inductive lesson, teachers use powerful examples to help students learn a concept or generalization and then students follow four phases. Students must identify data, group/classify data, interpret data or develop categories, convert categories or data into a hypothesis and then develop an inquiry to test their hypotheses. This is cooperative learning at its finest, with the student being the center point and the teacher guiding and monitoring. I feel the students learn very good critical thinking skills with this type of lesson. |