A Glimpse of Me as a Teacher
I selected moments from my praxis teaching lesson to screenshot, to showcase me engaging with the students and content. These moments are from when I was in the camera frame; most of the time was spent walking around while the students did the meaning-making.
Promoting Engagement
As seen in my 50 Texts-to-Teach, I love to use humor to engage students in meaning-making of science content. This is effective because in order to understand what is humorous about a text, you must first understand what you are viewing. This can also serve as a motivator to put in effort to understand the content. On the right is a satire picture of the layers of the Earth that I used in my integrating literacy lesson. Below I have my lesson plan written out in edTPA format.
Layers of the Earth - edTPA
I practiced using the "5 E's" to guide the creation of this lesson. As explained in the document, the students had already gone through a learning cycle with this information over the past few days , so I decided to "speed-run" the 5 E's cycle to revisit essential ideas and provide scaffolding to engage students back into the material.
- Also linked under "Journal Annotations" as "Praxis Journal and Annotations"
Peer Teaching
My first peer teaching lesson used a TikTok comparing the shape of their french fries to a phospholipid. I had my peers research organelles, find tangible comparisons, and present their findings and ideas on a slide.
My second peer teaching lesson used a YouTube video on an attempt to dig through the Earth to discover its layers. I guided my peers through a lesson on why this didn't work, and how the layers were actually discovered.
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