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"In teaching others we teach ourselves" - Proverb

Evidence of PD

GT training - 6 Hour Update

Professional Development during Beginning of Year PD at UA Campus

Summer Workshops

In order to improve my students writing and help create less formulated compositions, I brainstormed with my new writing content tested coworkers in both 7th and 9th grade ELA. They had heard of Kernel Writing and used it in the past. I decided I would try it and learn how to use it. I watched many YouTube videos and read the books below to help me familarize with the new strategy to writing and learn how to implement it in the classroom.

The Books I read were:

"The story to my Thinking" and "Crunch Time" By: Gretchen Bernabei

http://trailofbreadcrumbs.net/writing-strategies/kernel-essays/

Book Study with Samantha Rector: "Patterns of Power" by Jeff Anderson: We studied methods of using Mentoring texts to teach grammar. We created lessons plans and discussed ideas on how to implement it during the up coming school year.
Google for Education Fundamentals Training- Educator Level 1 Trainer : Exam Certificate: GCE1Certificate.pdf
Google Educator Training: Google Education Level 1 training.png, Google for Education letter of commendation.pdf
June: G/T: The Independent Investigation Method Research Model (IIM) It employs a continuum of skills that empowers teachers to integrate the research TEKS across the curriculum, thus enabling students to become independent researchers. GT Investigation workshop.pdf
July: Conferring with Student Writers: Carl Anderson discussed the how-to's of having effective writing conferences with students. He will explain key conferring concepts, discuss the teacher's role in a writing conference and strategies for helping students play an active role in conferences, and answer the most frequently asked questions about managing conferences in the classroom.

Fourth grade Writing tends to be one of my most challenging subjects that students struggle in. I do see growth from Benchmark to Benchmark, but I am always looking for new ways to have students discover their own voice and learn how to improve their writing through revise and editing. I feel as though teaching grammar tends to be the content I struggle with the most. I attended a Grammar Crafting Workshop in February at Region 7 to look for new ways to implement teaching Grammar. I learned how to use Mentor Sentences through Literature to gain interest as well as teach concepts of grammar.

2018 - Writing - Revise and Editing Workshop at Region 7 - 2/20/2018

067901 Grammar Crafting: The Art of Teaching Grammar

Writing Academy TAP and THINK workshop

TAP and Think.pdf

2018 Texas STEM Coalition http://txstem.org/

http://cnqyyj.m.attendify.com/app/about/9QzcswiGn3CjMHqLNh

Attended and presented at the Texas STEM Coalition in Galveston. I attended several great sessions to improve inquiry of PBL, integration of past with new engineering innovations and enrichment of PBL through writing.

2016/2017Presentations for Professional Development - Content Specific Roles

The elementary team at the Longview Campus found that giving Content Specific Roles to elementary students through the PBL model helps teach them how to hold accountability through 21st Century Skills. We were asked to present how we implement these roles in our classroom. I have attached our presentation.

Professional Development Presentation over Content Specific Roles.docx

Professional Devvelopment Content Specific Roles Presentation.pptx

Digital Citizenship Presentation 2018 PD

Jamie Burke- Hicks and I presented our Independent Study and PBL presentation at 2018 February PD.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1L3aWn9Weax-L3dC8GcHccYjHGVxXDAS-_bM8lB0Pm-4/edit?usp=sharing

Graduate Hours

I graduated with my Masters Degree in Curriculum and Instruction May of 2018 through the University of Texas at Tyler with a focus in Educational Technology. I learned many new applications with in technology that I implement in my classroom dialy, and I am always finding new ways innovative technology with my students.

2017 Coursework focus in PBL for Masters Course Curriculum Foundations :

PROJECT BASED LEARNING PREPARES STUDENT FOR FUTURE REAL WORLD APPLICATION.docx

2018 Curriculum and Instruction Course Work.

History of STEM EDUC 5306: I analyzed why STEM was created and how it has impacted our future.

I analyzed information through research and and interviews from people that were apart of STEM creation during the civil rights movement.

Minority’s experience of education during the Civil Rights Movement.docx

EDUC 5301 and EDUC 5302 Action Research

My action research is based on holding students accountable with authentic student specific roles through project based learning.

Masters Degree in Curriculum and Instruction in Progress Graduating May, 4th 2018

I am currently working on my Masters Degree in Curriculum and Instruction with a Focus of Educational Technology. I currently am maintaining a GPA of a 3.9

I am about to have completed 24 hours. Here are the classes I have taken towards my degree. I am still finishing up 2 courses EDUC 5302 and EDUCE 5303 and am planning on graduating with my Masters in Curriculum and Instruction with a Focus in Educational Technology May 4th 2018.

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Content Coach Walkthroughs

October 2021 Content Coach Walkthrough

This walkthrough focues on my ability to encourage 21st Century Skills through Student Workshops and PBL as well as my use of transitions from one activity to the next flows and is done quickly with the use of timers.

January 2022 Content Coach Walkthrough

This walk through focuses on how I utilizes data folders and the students are held accountable for their own data.

Use of digital or paper student reaction tools (reection sheets, notebooks, journals, self-assessment manipulatives) and gives students the opportunity to articulate their strengths or weaknesses and what actions they are taking to address these. On a weekly basis students are also digitally recording how many Lexia units that they have completed each week.

February 2022 This walkthrough focuses on classrom cultrue and data anaylsis. Mrs. Rector reports that I have a safe and encouraging classroom culture for all students. Mrs. Woods is supportive and encouraging in her instruction, so all students feel successful in the content. She also seess that I collect and analyze data in short cycles on a consistent basis to inform instruction based on interest, need, or skill-level and in strategic formats (one-on-one, small groups, etc.)

This Observation was during PBL design time and focused on my classroom environment during this time.

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This walk through focuses on knowledge of content. Samantha Rector states my ability teach content rich activities through the lense of Social Studies and Science. She also explains how I am able to build upon past knowledge in order to gain new content knowledge.

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2017-09-26 14-50-23 Natalie Woods.pdf

This walkthrough demonstates my understanding of the process of Expository writing and is able to explain the pieces to the students through the Lorax example. It show my ability to integrate reading and writing by have students respond to literature using figurative language and RACE short answer response writing strategy.

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This walkthrough focuses on my strengths of promoting deep reading comprehension as well as my ability to facilitate stations with a deep understanding of content.