Portfolio Entry 4

Hello, my name is Emily Warner and this is my

fourth curriculum portfolio entry.

Um so this week we talked all about curriculum alignment

and bringing in Farrell's backward planning model um into um

the lessons and everything like that.

And so this is what this portfolio entry talks about,

so let's go to the next slide and this is

speaking about Farrell's backward planning model and prior to reading

the book and listening to Dr Zeus um zoom, I

had not heard of feral now, I have heard of

the backward planning model and that's usually what I use

um in planning my lessons, that's what I learned in

college as my undergrad and that's usually just what I'm,

I usually start with the learning and text guided practice,

check for understanding modeling, application, independent practice and that independent

practice with assessment is the first step of the next

lesson and that's just kind of how I designed my

lessons, that's what lesson plan template that I use and

um so I'm very familiar with the backward planning model,

I love that Farrell's backward model planning backward planning model

focuses on literacy and for me that's important in my

class. Um I am a reading teacher, but even if

I wasn't a reading teacher, I feel like it's so

important to always start with literacy in your lesson.

Um and then also the backward planning model, it begins

with the end in mind, so we're always going to

be thinking about okay, how I'm going to assess these

students, how are they going to meet their learning objective?

Um and all of those things.

So you always have the end in mind and I

like how doctors who she really emphasizes the importance of

having the end in mind.

Our major project has the importance of the end in

mind and everything like that.

Also Farrell Ferrell um he focused on nontraditional assessments to

determine if that language or any objective has been met.

Um I like these nontraditional assessments because you're always going

to have those students in your class that just don't

test well they get test anxiety um if they're timed

on a test they just they're going to get anxiety.

And so I think it's very important that we have

those non traditional type of assessments to assess our students

to determine if they've learned what needs to be learned.

Um informal assessments, formative assessments, everything like that, that we

know how to assess our students even little exit ticket

post It note something just as easy as that can

assess their understanding and also learning activities in pharaoh's backward

planning model or hands on.

And I think this is very important designing lessons, you

always have to have some kind of experience learning experience

to help your students remember what they're actually learning.

Next thing we're going to talk about is the curriculum

alignment and I really like Farrell's backward planning model because

I feel like it's easier to a line curriculum if

you're using that model.

One of the main reasons, I think it's important that

you use that model is because the last step of

one lesson, it is always going to be the first

step of the other and so that makes the transitions

so very easy and seamless.

Um also the emphasis on literacy helps align all curriculum

across grade levels across the board because if we're incorporating

literacy into all of our lessons, no matter the subject,

there's going to be alignment there also, Assessment should be

aligned with the standards and objectives, just like any assessment

that you give, if you're meeting the standard and objective

then that's going to be met.

So that's a very important one.

Designing curriculum and aligning your curriculum.

Next is the evaluation indicators are another thing that we

spoke about this week.

Um the five evaluation indicators that I found in the

curriculum leadership book by Glatt Warm and bo she was

these planning, implementing instruction evaluating instruction classroom and management and

then professionalism.

Those are the five things that are usually set for

teacher evaluation and I think all these steps are very

important. It's important to show proof of planning um that

lesson plans are organized and they're meeting the standards and

meeting the objectives that should be met.

Um It's also important that principles or whoever is evaluating

um teachers that they see that this instruction that they

plan is being implemented well right.

And it's being implemented with a goal in mind and

being implemented with their students in mind that each teacher

knows their students.

It has a relationship with their students and they're able

to connect with their students.

That's very, very important to look at whenever you are

evaluating instruction.

Another thing is classroom management and I think that goes

hand in hand with knowing your students and building that

relationship if you walk into a classroom and it's chaotic

and you know, that that teacher does not have control.

I feel like that shows more about their relationship that

they have with those students.

And it's important as teachers that we connect with our

students and they know how we respond to things and

we know how they respond to things as the students,

Right? And so it's very important to evaluate those classroom

management techniques and also professionalism, how they're dressed, how they

speak, making sure that when you're speaking it's professional to

your student.

Yeah. And those five indicators are very important and they

should be evaluated during each lesson that teachers are being

evaluated on.

But just as doctors who spoke about during our zoom

this past week, good teaching or in quotes, good teaching

goes way beyond just these five indicators, Right?

And I think it's very important for principals and administrators

to show support to teachers and students, but more importantly,

when teachers are overwhelmed and they have everything going on,

just like doctors who spoke about, we have fire drills

and tornado drills and forms that need to be done

last minute and emails to check.

And um, on top of all these five things that

were just including in our class, right?

And we want to make sure that our students are

safe and they are loved and they're cared for and

they know that when they walk into our classrooms, they

feel safe, right and comfortable.

They have a lot of things going on in their

lives, just like teachers do.

I think it's very important for teachers and principals to

have that open relationship where they feel supported and they

know that they're doing their best and in order for

principles to know that about their teachers, they have to

have a relationship and it's much more than just one

day or one lesson going and and evaluating and marking

off indicators and marking off checklists to see if they

said the right things or to see if enough students

raise their hands are involved.

It's much more than that.

And it's important for principles to pop in and not

just for an evaluation, just to pop in and show

their face and show their support to their teachers.

And that's much more than these evaluation indicators, which they

are needed and they need to be there to show

guidelines for principles.

But it's so much more than just these things that

principles should be able to support their teachers in other

ways and back their teachers and just let them know

that they're there and if principles know that and principals,

no teachers, their teachers hearts and their teachers drive and

their teachers their teaching techniques, it's more than one lesson

and it's very, very important, just like doctors who spoke

about that evaluations, they're tricky because they have to be

done. But I think all the pressure should be taken

off of them.

So that is what I have for this week.

Thank you.

Portfolio Entry 4

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