The Big Interview EDU 650 Teaching, Learning and Leading in the 21 st Century Shirley Mcleod Dr. Wendy Ricci May 4, 2015

Self Introduction  My name is Shirley Mcleod  I am a mother of three daughters  I am a very out going person  I work a childcare center for about 5 years  I have my Bachelors Degree in Business Administration  I have a Master’s in Education  I have 5 years experience working with children  The position that I am applying for is to be a first grade teacher at your school.  I believe that I would make a good asset for your school.  I have no problem ask for help when needed  I believe the children are our future  After being a teacher for about three years I would like to apply to be a principle.

Philosophy of Education  Students do not choose their life style  They look for help in different ways  Environment matters  Students do their best according to their environment  Value your students  Students observe everything  What is the length that you would go to make things happen?  There is power when you are supported

Philosophy of Education  Teacher should have meet to create ideas of improvement  Have categories for your meeting  Have a strategic plan  Inquire about student development  Teachers must know we do not know everything ask question  Meeting can be frustrating if strategies or ideas has not been implemented.  Research different ways to better educate your class.  We decided that instead of waiting for the results of the studies that were not even being conducted, we would become the research.

Classroom Management Plan  Assessments  Plan for structure  Involve parents  Be creative  Set goals for your classroom  Organization  Creativity  Risk Taking

Classroom Management Plan  (Newman, 2013)  21 st century education identifies and focus on different areas that deals with the needs of the students.  Communicate with your students  "Rather than trying to insert knowledge into our kids' heads, as in the past(and then to measure how much of it got there), today’s teacher’s need to find ways to create 21 st century citizens (and workers) who parrot less and think more” (Prensky, 2010, p.3).

Classroom Management Plan  Design a behavior wall  Reward wall  Rules wall  Job wall  Organize your classroom  Set a environment for the students  Despite the numerous resources available on classroom management, choosing ways to m anage your classroom is still a challenge(New man, 2013).

Implementing Classroom Management  Your response will create a “rule” in the classroom and set the expectation, at least temporarily, on what students see as the boundaries and what they expect in the future interactions ( Newman, 2013).  Have structure in the classroom  For example, first a warning is issued, then a private conference with that student, and afterwards a loss of privileges or a trip to the office will be implemented( Newman, 2013).

Different school models Common Core State Standard  Specific goals are placed  Teacher should be preparing students for college.  Set expectations for students that will be unambiguous and transparent to everyone;  Promote the development of common I instructional materials for the standards;  Develop accountability systems that measure student success based on the same standards across states; and  Analyze policies that may need to be adjusted to ensure the success of students a nd teachers meeting the standards. (Lopez, 2013). (Lopez, 2013).

Different school models Crafting a lesson  Ground your lesson plan on pacific skills  Students should build on your lesson plan that you have implemented  Prepare yourself and your classroom  Teacher must know where they want their students to end up.  If you want to be an effective teacher who gives exceptional lessons, you must begin with planning(Newman, 2013). Different Teaching  Know your students  Adjust your instruction that will accommodate every student level of reading.  Make sure all students have the support that is need for them to learn.  Treat every student fairly and equally as possible.

Effective lesson planning and design to include the Student’s Role in the learning process  Plan a lesson with critical thinking  Be creative with your lesson plan  Implement ideas of students  Have details  Learning should be considered a comprehensive, holistic, transformative, and wide-ranging process that integrates academic learning, goal setting, student experiences, and assessment, processes that are often considered independent of each other (Newman, 2013).  Make sure students understand what they need to do before they get started.  Set goals for students  Gather information from the web, peers, students, and your own ideas  Ask questions no question is the wrong question  Have good learning objectives  Have a meaning behind my lesson plan

Effective lesson planning and design to include the Student’s Role in the learning process  Teacher must assess their teaching.  Give students understand of their responsibilities.  Implement your lesson plan.  Ask question to see if they understand your lesson.  A. Do you understand the assignment.  B. Do I need to repeat the instruction.  Have expectation from your students.

Assessment Matters  Collect data and use the data that is collected  Pre-test your students on the assignment and retest un-tell you find away to get a better score.  Assessments are important  Set goals after the assessments  Assessments scores is information that should be use to better set goals on what the students are lacking  Assessing students has to be grounded in a commitment to use their information in a way that helps us to generate greater success for them (Lopez, 2013)

Assessment Matter  Have a flow chart for your assessments  Assessments gives to a overview on what the students know  Set goals  Accuracy in the lacking areas  Gives teacher a overview  Analyze your process before and after assessments  As professionals, we are called to participate in activities that improve our r esults while learning from our successes and failures ( Lopez, 2013).

Professional Learning Communities  Meet regularly to throw out ideas or find out what’s new  Improve educator knowledge  Improve teaching strategies  Participate in the meeting  In the meeting teacher should techniques, lesson design that was successful.  Take critical feedback to do better  Take recommendation on how lessons or teaching should be done better to improve students work.  Teachers are on the front lines of education, implementing the curriculum and working directly with students, so they have a personal vantage point from which to view the current issues, trends, and needs of students and teachers. This makes it most logical for teachers to drive changes in practices (Mangin, 2005).

Professional Learning Communities  Have an imagination.  Provide positive influence in your teaching  Help students succeed  Make that you speak clearly for students to understand you.  Have purpose  Collaborate ideas in the meeting  Build a concept on what you want to do(Newman, 2013)

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