During the Fall of 2016 I had the opportunity to participate in a Daily 5 professional development course after school with my lead teacher. It was a pleasure learning about this unique curriculum and even more impressive to see a classroom full of students reading books during the implementation of "Read to Self". The posters shown above were created as "I charts" to help the students remember the different ways in which to read a book and what they should do while they "Read to Self". I look forward to continuing my participation in professional development that promotes innovative ways to help students learn.
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As part of the Caldwell Writing Assessment (CWA) the 1st grade team decided to create a GLADD chart to help the students develop thinking about the topic, "Do you like the rain? Why or why not?" The image shown is day two after students came up and sorted pictures into like or don't like the rain. Day three we added the words and moved the pictures around to help make the chart theirs as well. As the first time I had the opportunity to teach GLADD in the classroom, I feel this is a good demonstration of my applying professional development from my school, and using my instruction from a GLADD unit I was taught while in the education program at The College of Idaho. Part of my job as a teacher is to take everything I have learned and apply it to helping my students learn in our classroom.
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Collaboration is an essential part of professional development and growth. After having worked with three different grade-level teams I can say that while each group functions differently, they are all focused around one goal, supporting each other and supporting the students each of us is teaching. I have been so grateful for all the advise and all I have learned during different collaboration sessions as we touch base about where we are, offer ideas for classroom management challenges, and come up with inventive new ways to approach the topics which the students are learning about in our classroom. I am very excited to continue to collaborate with grade, school, and district-level teams in order to learn about how other teachers teach and improve upon my own pedagogy as well.
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