Category: Personal Blogs
-
Contributions to My Learning Community
3/3/23 – In my Contributions to my Learning Community, this is my rationale for scores of a 90 in EDLD 5303 and a 45 in EDLD 5305 as I reflect on my participation in the learning communities as a part of these courses. First, I was able to share my learning in both courses’ in-person…
-
Engagement in my Learning Communities
3/3/23 – I communicate regularly with my core group in my courses sharing thoughts, ideas, feedforward on our assignments, etc. I also share my learning with my fellow instructional coaches on my campus and with my district Emergent Bilingual coaches. I had visited earlier with my principal about some of my learning and how I…
-
Communication of Ideas
2/27/2023 – I would like to be an innovative educator, and I am not there, yet. That is the “power of yet” in a growth mindset – knowing that I will get there because I do want to create a learning environment where student work is meaningful and authentic to them. Not only do I need to…
-
Voice in My ePortfolio
2/23/23 – I have a very loud teacher voice per say, but I’m unsure about how loud my voice will be in my ePortfolio. I tend to express my opinions gently. However, as I have grown older, I have become more outspoken in my viewpoint and more pointed in my words and tone. It will…
-
Quotable Quotes
2/22/23 – Looking at quotes as I design my portfolio. I liked a few such as this one –“If I had asked the public what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.“ Henry Ford (1863 – 1947), Founder of Ford Motor Company
-
Working on My Literature Review
2/18/2023 – In reading on constructivist learning theory, I realize why SIOP works so well because the components reflect so much of this theory and I can tie this into my innovation plan. Since I am an EB Instructional Coach and we live and breath Sheltered Instruction, it will be another persuasive piece for the…
-
My Learning and My Work
2/15/23 – Today was my mid-year check-in on my goals at work with my adminstrator. I was excited to share some of my work with her and how I want to make some of it apart of my goals to finish out the year. Then, once I have my Implementation Timeline ready, I plan to…
-
How It’s Going
2/14/2023 – I am enjoying this graduate work and thankful that it came at a great time in my career to utilize its content and maximize my learning. As an ELA teacher when I started my career over 25 years ago, I never would have thought that I would have picked this major for my…
-
Thoughts on Other ePortfolios
2/11/2023 – Looking at and into other ePorfolios is enlightening as to the different uses of an ePortfolio. After spending time in Dr. Harapnuik’s ePortfolio, it has definitely given me ideas as to what I would like to do in mine. Looking through others’ ePortfolios shows me their focus professionally and personally. Each one’s graphics and layout show…
-
ePortfolio Reviews
2/10/23 – Looking at other’s ePortfolio’s has helped me craft my own. I was able to get the framework from what other’s did in their titles and links on pages. I need to improved mine with a search engine and probably rework the paging pieces. I think I have been posting instead of paging properly…
Wings and a Wand 