Management and Organization
Teaching Portfolio Rationale/Reflection
SAU Effective Teaching Domain: Management and Organization
Title: Teaching Portfolio
Context: EDU 429: Effective Teaching Strategies
Date: March, 2013
During the Effective Teaching Strategies class I took in the spring of 2013, I put together a digital portfolio to represent myself as a future teacher. This website includes a management profile, assessment profile, and teaching strategies profile, each representing what I have learned and my future plans as an educator. In my management profile, I provide a detailed account of my plans for the management and organization of my future upper elementary classroom. While putting this profile together, I spent many hours researching a variety of classroom management theorists and identifying theories and procedures I feel will be ideal for my own classroom. I also used my own experience from teaching in classrooms to contribute to my classroom management plan. This artifact clearly demonstrates my competency in management and organization because it provides a detailed and well-researched account of my plans for managing and organizing my classroom.
Although I have not begun teaching in my own classroom and have therefore not put this management plan into place, I have had a chance to implement many of the concepts from my management profile into the class I am teaching this summer (2013) in a summer reading program. Following the structure of this plan, students have learned a great deal about treating each other with respect and working as a team. They have also become comfortable with specific classroom procedures, such as my call-and-response attention-getting procedure and the procedure for coming up with classroom rules.
While completing this portfolio, I learned a great deal about what it takes to be a teacher with great classroom management. I learned the importance of confidence and consistency, as well as being caring toward students. The more time I have spent teaching and observing, the more I have realized the importance of good classroom management. As I state in my classroom management profile, classroom management can be the difference between success and failure for teachers because students cannot learn well if they are not in well-ordered environment. Although I have learned a great deal about classroom management, I have a long way to go in effectively implementing management. By taking opportunities like this summer reading program and my student teaching experience to practice classroom management, I hope to grow and become confident in this important domain.
SAU Effective Teaching Domain: Management and Organization
Title: Teaching Portfolio
Context: EDU 429: Effective Teaching Strategies
Date: March, 2013
During the Effective Teaching Strategies class I took in the spring of 2013, I put together a digital portfolio to represent myself as a future teacher. This website includes a management profile, assessment profile, and teaching strategies profile, each representing what I have learned and my future plans as an educator. In my management profile, I provide a detailed account of my plans for the management and organization of my future upper elementary classroom. While putting this profile together, I spent many hours researching a variety of classroom management theorists and identifying theories and procedures I feel will be ideal for my own classroom. I also used my own experience from teaching in classrooms to contribute to my classroom management plan. This artifact clearly demonstrates my competency in management and organization because it provides a detailed and well-researched account of my plans for managing and organizing my classroom.
Although I have not begun teaching in my own classroom and have therefore not put this management plan into place, I have had a chance to implement many of the concepts from my management profile into the class I am teaching this summer (2013) in a summer reading program. Following the structure of this plan, students have learned a great deal about treating each other with respect and working as a team. They have also become comfortable with specific classroom procedures, such as my call-and-response attention-getting procedure and the procedure for coming up with classroom rules.
While completing this portfolio, I learned a great deal about what it takes to be a teacher with great classroom management. I learned the importance of confidence and consistency, as well as being caring toward students. The more time I have spent teaching and observing, the more I have realized the importance of good classroom management. As I state in my classroom management profile, classroom management can be the difference between success and failure for teachers because students cannot learn well if they are not in well-ordered environment. Although I have learned a great deal about classroom management, I have a long way to go in effectively implementing management. By taking opportunities like this summer reading program and my student teaching experience to practice classroom management, I hope to grow and become confident in this important domain.