Katie's Portfolio Blog

The Same Sun Here event that I went to was the author talk. I knew this was the event I wanted to go to because there were so many things I wanted to know about the process of writing the story and the ending. During the event we learned about the writing process and the complications that came with publishing the story. Our graduates are creative and integrative educators. Above is part of the education mission statement. I believe this relates to the event because we learned about the creativity of the two authors to write and publish a story in the way that they did. It was very unconventional the way that the story was created, however it helped to make the story authentic. In education it is important to be creative because if the activities in class are the same day to day and year to year not only will the students be bored but after a while it will be tedious to us as well. One thing that struck me was the process of the writing that took place. The process of writing the ...

Back-to-Back Lesson Plan Folder In the google folder is my lesson plan for the back-to-back mini lessons and the feedback from my peers and professors. My lesson plan for Thursday was changed after my lesson on Tuesday, due to the number of students I had. My original plan for Thursday was to have the students preform a skit about Gatsby's parties. Because of the number of students I had I realized it would be more useful to completely change around my lesson and have a more discussion based class. The assessments at the end of the lessons were very similar, I had the students put their heads down and raise their hands when I asked questions. On the second day I planned to have the students give a thumbs up, sideways, or down this allowed for the students to show if they were confused. When I change this lesson for the final unit plan I will change the format of the discussion. I may break the class into smaller groups for discussion or I will do a socratic seminar. Performance...