Students need a supportive and engaging learning environment. Every child will need support and will engage in different ways. For my son, he loves to read, even with his big sister. He can tell you so many fun facts, facts I did not know, because he loves them read to him out of a book. I see that in him, and i will develop relationships with my students in order to discover their needs to ensure effective teaching and learning.
To engage students, it is important to provide them individually with resources and opportunities for academic and personal growth. This was an ELA unit where we did silent reading and read books out loud with pictures and words on smart board, to help students learn the elements of a story and show their growth to us with their personal stories. This was a great activity to get to know your students and summarize their learning. Bellow is an example of a student’s work.
Here I am holding up one the student’s work, as she reads it to the rest of the class. This was a great way for students to learn from their peers and offering the opportunity for students to show their work, the publishing phase of writing. This brings everyone together building on our safe and positive classroom environment, creating a community of learners.
After teaching the short e, we built skeletons out of q-tips. This was a fun engaging activity for student to show their learning by creating as many Es as they see possible. Giving fun engaging activities to students to show their learning creates a positive safe classroom. I feel relationships were made, students engaged, and they were very excited to take their artwork home and tell their parents all about it.
Knowledge Keeper.
Cayote puppets to complement Cayote as the sun to complement Indigenous Education.
Grasshoppers to complement The Story of Grasshopper to complement Indigenous education.
Live encounter with a health care professional for Career education.
ADST: Build the tallest tower challenge
Class market day to solidify and show our learning of saving, spending, budgeting, and earning.
Here are images from one of my expeditions in my Bachelors of Outdoor Education that helps to explain my passion for the land and all that it has to offer. Place-based learning supports education integrating different subjects and disciplines through hands-on, exploration, investigation, and engagement. I cannot wait to brin PBL into my future classroom:
