Student Teaching -Educated at Relays School of Education 2021-2024
DANIELSON FRAMEWORK ICT Global History (Social Studies)
Danielson Framework for Teaching The Danielson Framework for Teaching, created by Charlotte Danielson, is a widely respected model for evaluating and improving teaching practices. It outlines four key domains:
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Planning and Preparation: Establishes clear learning goals, effective lesson design, and knowledge of content and students.
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Classroom Environment: Focuses on creating a supportive and well-managed learning space.
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Instruction: Highlights engagement, communication, questioning techniques, and the use of assessments.
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Professional Responsibilities: Emphasizes reflection, collaboration, and professional growth.
This framework serves as a roadmap for educators striving to enhance their instructional effectiveness and foster student success.
5E Instructional Model The 5E Instructional Model, developed by the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) in the 1980s, is an inquiry-based teaching framework rooted in constructivist principles. It encourages students to actively engage with and construct knowledge through meaningful experiences. The model consists of five phases:
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Engage: Captures students' interest and connects prior knowledge to new concepts.
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Explore: Provides hands-on opportunities for students to investigate and develop understanding.
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Explain: Facilitates the articulation of ideas and the introduction of formal concepts.
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Elaborate: Extends and deepens understanding through application in new contexts.
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Evaluate: Assesses comprehension and the ability to apply learning.
By fostering curiosity, critical thinking, and active participation, the 5E Model empowers students to take ownership of their learning.
Domains
Domain 1: Planning and Preparation.
In order to ensure that my students received the best possible education from me, I invested the proper amount of time and effort into reviewing the material and developing inquiry-based, student-centered lessons that would challenge the students to do higher-order thinking and relate the content to their personal reality. Lessons were planned ahead of time and by using the 5E Instructional Model. Each lesson plan contains a lesson overview, enduring understandings, lesson objectives, standards addressed, needed resources/materials, and advanced preparations as well as a day-by-day breakdown of the lesson, pre-class activities, notes for students, and any work that will be assigned. Additionally, more time was dedicated into finding ways to integrate modern technological resources, like a projector
Domain 2: The Classroom Environment
From the moment when the students first walk into the classroom at the beginning of the year, all the way until the students wrap up the academic year and leave for Summer break, the ambient within the classroom is a dynamic one, constantly changing as the teacher figures out the type of environment he or she wishes to cultivate. As a Special Ed Teacher at CISHS, I was initially concerned that I would not be able to establish the type of classroom environment that I desired, one of mutual respect and diligent learning, because I would be in the classroom for a short amount of time. Nevertheless, I was determined to establish some type of positive classroom environment. I worked toward this goal by building rapport with the students, by learning their names and something they were passionate about, and sharing my classroom norms on the first day that I began to instruct them. Below, are my first-day activity and classroom norms.
Domain 3: Instruction
Instruction, for the most part, is the first thing that comes to mind for most people when they think about teachers. "How much homework do you assign?" "Do you do a lot of interactive activities or is your class more of direct instruction?" "Are you strict or laid back?" "Do incorporate technology into your lessons?" "How do you get students to learn the material?" These are some of questions that I get asked often when I mention that I am working toward being a professional educator. All of these questions something in common, they all address my way of instructing the class. Needless to say, instruction is the main responsibility of an educator. While things like working with other staff members, developing professionally, being like a counselor to students, helping students to get organized, keeping accurate records, and contacting parents are extremely important, at the end of the day, the most important task an educator has is that of educating the students in his or her classroom. However, doing so requires so much more than just getting up in-front of the classroom and delivering a good lesson. In order to deliver powerful, meaningful, and beneficial instruction, it is necessary to have the other three domains in proper balance and harmony. If a phenomenal lesson is developed but the classroom environment is not one of respect and learning, the teacher will not be able to reach the students. Likewise, if the classroom environment is one of extreme respect and diligent learning but the lesson plan is poor and unreasonable, the students will not retain the information. In addition to these, a professional decorum is necessary in order to be an outstanding educator.
Domain 4: Professional Responsibilities
An incredibly important part of being an educator is taking on responsibilities beyond those found withing the classroom. These additional duties involve the professional aspect found within education, from straightforward tasks like taking attendance and writing reflection journals to more complex ones like contacting parents and getting more involved with the school community. During my time at CISHS as a student teacher, I had the opportunity to attend Professional Development sessions, take attendance for my homeroom section, assist other staff members with their duties, communicate with parents, and constantly reflect on my lessons and particular moments of my day. Additionally, and most important in terms of my professional development at CiSHS.