Kelsea Pinkston Teaching Portfolio

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Classroom management is one of the most important components of a successful classroom. Here is my checklist including my strategies for a classroom with a positive learning environment: A Positive Classroom Climate Make sure the environment is safe and there are no hazards Build a community that allows students to take risks Welcome students into class with positivity every day Try to get to know students’ interests, goals, strengths, and weaknesses Include students’ interests in the content Learn every student’s name Have clear expectations Co-create class rules with students Teach SEL (Social and Emotional Learning) Do community-building activities for student-student rapport High Expectations Share objectives/learning goals with students and explain why they are important No Opt Out (have student answer in some form, even if repeating an answer someone else said) Right is Right (do not accept kind of right answers, guide students to a ...

Pre-assessment and Differentiation in a 9th Grade Beginner ESL Class Objective: Students write an exemplification paragraph The goal of this lesson is for students to write an exemplification paragraph. So, the first step is to pre-assess for students' current knowledge and skills.  Pre-assessment activity: Quiz Students will take a quiz to see what they already know about the topic. This quiz will include lower-order skill tasks from Bloom's taxonomy with activities like identifying parts of a paragraph (topic sentence, concluding sentence, etc.) and putting these parts in the correct order. There will be questions about the purpose of an exemplification paragraph and what makes it different from other types of paragraphs (persuasive, descriptive, etc.). There will also be a section for them to write a paragraph. After collecting and sorting students into groups based on the number of correct answers, students will go to different parts of the room to do different...