Shelly Spallees Hansen introduces her teaching portfolio, which showcases her philosophy of education through reflections on critical incidents, demonstrations of competency, and areas for further growth. The portfolio includes artifacts and responses to support reflections on her development as an educator. Hansen teaches family and consumer education and hopes the portfolio provides insight into her qualifications and commitment to lifelong learning.
Reflective teaching- its definition, the questions that should be there in the mind of a reflective practioner , the materials that can be used for the success of this practice
Reflective teaching- its definition, the questions that should be there in the mind of a reflective practioner , the materials that can be used for the success of this practice
Implications of a Reflective Framework on Student Teachers' Future PracticeMei Lick Cheok
This is my presentation of a small-scale study carried out on my students teachers' reflective practice process and how it had created an initial impact on their future role.
Reflective thinking/teaching
An approach that a teacher can employ towards his/her lessons. This approach is not multi-disciplinary thus it is to be carefully analyzed prior to employing this approach in any activity.
How do we usually feel after teaching our class?
What is Reflection?
Why do teachers need to reflect?
What is reflective teaching?
Teacher’s Reflection
Taxonomy Of Reflection
The Steps
How To Begin?
Teacher’s Diary
Peer Observation
Recording Lesson
Students Feedback
THINK
READ
TALK
ASK
Sample sentences
THE END
WHAT IS REFLECTIVE TEACHING?
As a teacher, you will have days when you finish teaching only to find your mind racing with thoughts about lessons completed. We should spend time and energy to develop understandings through reflective teaching.
By: Seyed Mojtaba Jafari
This slide set provides an overview of reflective practice, geared towards teachers. It describes what it is, how to undertake it, and how it supports teachers' professional development.
Implications of a Reflective Framework on Student Teachers' Future PracticeMei Lick Cheok
This is my presentation of a small-scale study carried out on my students teachers' reflective practice process and how it had created an initial impact on their future role.
Reflective thinking/teaching
An approach that a teacher can employ towards his/her lessons. This approach is not multi-disciplinary thus it is to be carefully analyzed prior to employing this approach in any activity.
How do we usually feel after teaching our class?
What is Reflection?
Why do teachers need to reflect?
What is reflective teaching?
Teacher’s Reflection
Taxonomy Of Reflection
The Steps
How To Begin?
Teacher’s Diary
Peer Observation
Recording Lesson
Students Feedback
THINK
READ
TALK
ASK
Sample sentences
THE END
WHAT IS REFLECTIVE TEACHING?
As a teacher, you will have days when you finish teaching only to find your mind racing with thoughts about lessons completed. We should spend time and energy to develop understandings through reflective teaching.
By: Seyed Mojtaba Jafari
This slide set provides an overview of reflective practice, geared towards teachers. It describes what it is, how to undertake it, and how it supports teachers' professional development.
This workshop was targeted at UK teaching staff in higher education who would like to explore the use of online portfolios to showcase and reflect on their teaching practice.
CHAPTER 7Developing a Philosophy of Teaching and LearningTeacJinElias52
CHAPTER 7
Developing a Philosophy of Teaching and Learning
Teacher Interview: Heather Cyra
Heather Cyra has been a teacher at Guild Gray Elementary School for four years. Approximately 600 students attend kindergarten through fifth grade at Guild Gray. The school is located between an older, well-established neighborhood and low-rent apartment complexes. Student enrollment fluctuates at the school, and teachers may be asked to change grade levels when populations at specific grade levels decrease or increase. Ms. Cyra began teaching first grade but after one year she was moved to fifth grade. For as long as she remembers, she wanted to be a teacher. She knew that there would be challenges and rewards in teaching, but teachers make a difference in the world. She wanted to be creative and use the natural skills she possesses for helping people learn.
What do you see when you see excellence in teaching?
I see someone who is organized and has created an enjoyable, engaging environment—teachers who keep the students engaged in learning and also help everyone learn. I see excellence in teaching when I see teachers who have “fun” with their students; teachers who listen to their students and keep the students from being bored. Excellence in teaching is also surprising the students with unexpected activities, rewards, or information.
How do you know when your students are learning?
There are many ways to know that students are learning. You can often tell just by the looks on their faces that show whether they are confused or enlightened. You can tell by verbal cues from how the students respond to the questions you ask or how they contribute to class discussions. You can tell from a written assessment or merely a show of hands. If they are not responding the way I expect them to then I realize I have to reteach a concept or go back over something that may not have been explained in a way that they can understand. If you are tuned in to your students it is quite easy to tell when students have checked out by the way they look at you or don’t and by the responses they give you.
What brings you joy in teaching?
When I see how far the students I started out with grow in a year. By keeping track of their stages of development, I can see how much they have learned and how their attitudes and behavior have developed. When my students tell me at the end of the year that they don’t want to leave, I know that I have created a warm, nurturing environment. I feel like I am doing something right. It’s not entirely about what the tests say. As long as they’re learning, showing growth, and enjoying themselves in school and have enjoyed their fifth-grade experience I am happy and feel like I have done my job.
How did you develop a personal philosophy of teaching?
I constructed my philosophy one course at a time through integration of the most prominent and influential pieces of knowledge from each professor and textbook. During the course in special education my ...
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Working for Early Head Start in Springfield, Illinois, I had the pleasure of working with many different nationalities. Each month, I invited a different family to come and speak to our class and share some traditions and items from their where they live. The students loved listening to other families and the families enjoyed sharing their heritage with the students. I learned that incorporating other history into our classroom made the parent/care giver more willing to participate and give back to the classroom. One particular lesson plan, one of my Hispanic families came to teach our children how to count and speak and spell their name. The children were excited to go home and teach their parents. Listening to some of the parents share their beliefs as well as stories that may go on back in their country it gave me more respect for my country.
For my future position, I will still incorporate different ethnicities into my lesson plan and have different families come into the classroom and share their history. One thing that I have also thought about is having a different type of bring your parent to school day. This will allow the parent/child to see what actually goes on in a child’s classroom. This will also allow the parent to interact with their child and their child’s friends. This will also promote a positive learning environment for the student.
Identify and describe at least three main strengths in relation to the theme of your portfolio.
Three main strengths that stick out to me are resilience, being able to incorporate, and being self-motivated.
Resilience is being able to recover quickly. Being an educator Resiliency should be a vital strength. Being an educator and having the ability to recover from a bad day at school requires determination. Educators have to wear more than one hat in the classroom while trying to educate their students. Educators have to deal with more disciplinary problems in the classroom. Being able to recovery from dealing with a behavior issue and still maintain your classroom has become very challenging.
Incorporation- Children are learning in many different ways. It is the Educator’s role to incorporate and reach each student so that they can learn. One thing educators are now seeing a lot more of are, children with more learning disabilities. It has been more stressful for educators to research and learn different learning styles and find learning resources for their students.
Being Self-motivation sometimes is not as easy as we would like for it to be. Especially being a educator. I ...
This digital portfolio represents my best effort to present work I have completed in order to meet benchmarks and standards for a Masters in Curriculum and Instruction at Eastern Michigan University.
CHAPTER 16Succeeding in Your Teacher Education Program, and BeyJinElias52
CHAPTER 16
Succeeding in Your Teacher Education Program, and Beyond
Teacher Interview: Amber Velasquez
Amber Velasquez is a second-grade teacher at Chandler Oaks Elementary School, in Round Rock, Texas. Ms. Velasquez is in her second year of teaching. She grew up in Round Rock, did her student teaching in the school district, and is now a second-year teacher. From the time I was 5 years old I knew that I wanted to be a teacher. I went to school in Round Rock, graduated from there, and now I teach there.
What is your school like?
The school has grades K–5 and is in its second year with 600-plus students. Our families are middle and upper class, depending on where they live. The two-story building is brand new, with lots of technology. Our district has a contract with Dell, a big company in Austin, so we have lots of technology.
We have windows on the outside of each classroom. They are fairly big. We also have windows looking into the hallway. The school expectation is that your blinds are always up for the windows looking outside and the ones facing inside. In many ways you are teaching in a fish bowl!
All six of the second-grade classroom doors face a big central area called the “Village.” This area is an extension of our classrooms. The Village houses technology including a big document camera and Smart Board that we can use for grade-level presentations and lessons. Each classroom has a bathroom, so there are no big bathroom breaks. Also, there is a back walkway joining each classroom.
What advice do you have for teacher education candidates?
Let me fast forward to something I wish I had known: I just want to share that this profession is a changing profession. There are going to be lots of trends that happen. There is going to be a lot of curriculum that you will learn is the “right way,” and the only way during your teacher preparation classes. Then you will learn that in the real world it will be taught in a different way.
Best practice is a growing practice. It is OK to feel passionate about the way a curriculum is taught, but you still need to be knowledgeable about other ways to deliver the same curriculum. Set high expectations for yourself as a personal learner. As you move closer to securing a teaching position and even after you have obtained one, seek out professional development opportunities, conferences, seminars, and books. The pressure of learning best practice increases once you earn your license. Hold yourself accountable for meeting your learning expectations.
To what extent are parents involved in your school?
Our parents are very involved. They are on campus all the time. If teachers have something they need done, such as a bulletin board, copies, or something cut out, a parent will volunteer to do that for you. There is a room called the Pro Center. Parents can work on projects there. What is wonderful about utilizing parent volunteers is that a teacher can spend her time working on things that are more academi ...
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2. Welcome to a showcase of my professional teaching
experiences. In this portfolio, I hope to demonstrate
my philosophy of education through reflection on the
three guiding questions that you will find on the
index page, while also providing artifacts as evidence
of this reflection process. Thank you and I hope you
enjoy my portfolio!
Shelly Spallees Hansen Click here to hear Shelly
3. Reflective Introduction Statement
Hello, my name is Shelly Spallees Hansen and I am currently teaching FCE
in Walworth, WI while attending UW-Stout in Menomonie, WI in the Masters of
Science in Education program. I have been teaching for a total of 11 years both in
Norway and in the USA. I would like to give you an overview of my eportfolio. This
portfolio is a working portfolio where I highlight or showcase my thoughts and
reflections on my teaching experiences. The purpose of this portfolio is to allow for
reflection and assessment of my own professional growth and to help me focus on
where I want to go as a future educator and leader.
I hope it is easy for you to navigate. On the next slide you will find more
information about me personally along with links to my teaching philosophy and
resume. Please use these to discover more about my qualifications. On the Index
slide, you will find three reflective questions about my thoughts towards teaching
with links to artifacts and responses in support of these questions along with links to
the Wisconsin Teacher Standards that support my reflections. The last slides of my
portfolio contain my conclusion and my contact information. In my conclusion I will
identify my strengths and the areas that I discovered need further growth. The
conclusion also contains identified strategies of how I plan on achieving these goals.
My hope is that you will see, by the way I have laid out this portfolio, that I
am a creative, organized, detailed, and outgoing person that LOVES working with
children and feels blessed to be a teacher! I believe that the artifacts I have chosen
and reflections that I have written will give you a good feeling towards what kind of
teacher I feel I am and what work or goals I have yet to accomplish. I believe
learning is a life-long process and I believe that my portfolio of information will
highlight this. Enjoy!
4. Personal Information
It has long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to
things. This is my life's motto. I happen to things. I don't let things happen to
Index me, or at least I try not to. I am a seeker of activity, new challenges, and new
risks. I have a varied educational background and I have lived in 26 different
places so I like change. I have traveled to 17 different countries and have been a
Teaching missionary to Guatemala and Mexico. My children are from Colombia and my
Philosophy husband is from Norway. I LOVE DIFFERENT CULTURES. People are a
mystery to me and my life is filled with people all the time! I have been fortunate
enough in my life to have met and had coffee with a Prime Minister and I have
Resume met Princes, Princesses, Kings and Queens. I have met movie stars and rock
stars and I have been friends with prisoners. Who else can say that about their
life?
I am currently living in Elkhorn but I lived the last 10 years in Norway. I
am originally from Eau Claire, Wisconsin. I teach Culinary Arts and Child
Development at Big Foot High School and in Norway I taught English as a
Second Language to Norwegian 8-10 graders and 5th and 7th graders. I also
have taught Family and Consumer Education both in Eau Claire, WI and
Menomonie, WI. My interests include my
family, reading, talking, traveling, shopping, and being with young people. I
enjoy a variety of cultural activities and I love being involved in community
activities.
5. Index
1. What kinds of critical incidents in teaching or my professional practice
have helped define me personally and professionally?
• My Response Supportive Artifacts & Reflection
Wisconsin State Teaching Standards-#2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
2. How do I best demonstrate that I am a competent educator?
• My Response Supportive Artifacts & Reflection
Wisconsin State Teaching Standards-#1,2, 3, 4, 7, 10
3.What do I need to contemplate further as an educator or in my practice
and why?
• My Response Supportive Artifacts & Reflection
Wisconsin State Teaching Standards-#1,3,4, 6, 7, 9,10
6. Conclusion
Conclusion
Young people today, deserve teachers who will take an interest in them personally and
inspire them to want to learn. I feel that I have demonstrated throughout this portfolio that I am
this kind of teacher. I feel that my strengths of creativity, organization, and enthusiasm for
working with young people are some of the things that I bring to the classroom. As demonstrated
in my artifacts, I feel that I have diversified my teaching strategies and assessment practices in
order to provide an interesting, unique, student centered and hands-on learning environment.
Allowing the students to choose the method of how they will learn and the method of learning
has provided motivation and a desire for learning. Becoming involved in the students lives
outside of the classroom as shown by the pictures of activities I have worked with, has been a
Index great reward for me.
I have tried to demonstrate that learning is progressive and in order for learning to take
place, students must be taught according to their own interests, talents, and needs. My
curriculum is experientially based. This philosophy, I feel, can be demonstrated through my
lesson plans. Such as the artifacts I have included for question three. As I mentioned in my
philosophy, the role of a teacher should be as a manager or guide. One of the areas that I would
personally like to work more on is this. I feel that I am connected but I would like to be able to
handle classroom management more effectively. I am completing my Master of Science in
Education at UW-Stout. My thesis is on improving the professional practices of an individual
diagnosed with ADD. Through my research, I hope to gain information and practical knowledge
that I can apply in my classroom to help myself as well as my students to be more focused and
organized.
In looking at what I need to contemplate further, I know that I need to be prepared for
changes coming in my subject matter. This was also mentioned in question 3. It is important for
me to gain exposure in other teaching fields in order to maintain my marketability. I feel, that as
a Reading Teacher, I will still be able to make a difference in students’ lives while also teaching
a subject that I am passionate about. So what I need to ask myself is 1). What more do I need to
do to prepare myself to be a Reading Teacher? 2). What future competencies do I need to work
towards in order to continue developing a strong Family and Consumer Education program? 3).
How can I become even stronger in classroom management? And after taking this class, I have
found myself also asking, 4). “What more can I do to incorporate technology into the
classroom?”
7. The strategies that I have for answering these questions would include the following:
Conclusion
1). Continue completing coursework and student teaching as a Reading Teacher. I would also
like to look at my FCE curriculum and discover what ways I can incorporate reading into the
program. In addition, I would like to attend summer institutes in Culinary Arts to better
prepare me for this program as well.
2). I need to research the other career areas in FCE that I am not certified in, which would
include, Health Occupations and Child Care Services. These certifications would require
working in these environments in order to achieve the necessary hours needed to be certified.
This means that I would need to work either in the evenings or over summers to become
certified. I would also like to continue taking courses in Culinary Arts to stay up-to-date with
Index this area.
3). After completing my thesis on management techniques and ADD, I would like to apply
my research into my own personal and professional life to ensure an even more organized
classroom. My goal is to complete my study this fall and finalize my paper in the spring.
4). I plan on taking continued credits in using technology in the classroom. I would like to
incorporate the use of reflective e-portfolios in either the Reading classroom or in the FCE
classroom.
As I reflect on the process of developing this portfolio, I am reminded of the need
for lifelong learning. Teaching is an honor and I do not take this honor lightly. My future
goals are evidence of the need for continued learning and development. Teaching is the
“road less traveled” and I am glad to be on this road with so many other talented and
remarkable individuals!
8. Contact Information
Shelly Spallees Hansen
W4809 Overlook Drive
Elkhorn, WI 53121
(262) 723-4828
hansens@uwstout.edu
