PSA video for hat and mitten drive at TRMS

 PSA Video

MY REFLECTION
WHAT: This artifact is a video/PSA that I made with my morning video advisory to support another teacher in my school who runs a hat drive called Mealey's meals.



SO WHAT:  This is an example of how my relationships with colleagues are characterized by mutual support and cooperation. This is part of Danielson's Domain 4 "Relationships with Colleagues." The teacher who does this hat and mitten drive asked me if my advisory could help out with this. I was happy to help and my students who are in my video advisory were also happy to be involved in this school-wide project.


NOW WHAT: I hope that as more teachers become aware that the video lab, which is located in the TRMS library and managed by me, is a resource to them, they will take advantage of the lab and of me as a colleague who can help them with projects of this nature.

Agenda for Easybib Lesson

TARGET

You will know what it means and why it is important to cite your sources and be able to log into Easybib.com and create a project, share a project, cite a book.

VOCABULARY

• Plagiarism: taking someone’s words and using them without citing

• Cite - verb. - the act of telling where your information is from

• Citation - noun.- the source you used

• Sources - where the information is from: books, computers, magazines. database articles, web sites

• Bibliography - the page where you have all your citations. MLA formatting

AGENDA

• Discuss vocabulary & importance
• Watch a couple of videos plagiarism video Easybib demo of logging on and citing a book source
• Students log into Gapps and open Easybib app
• Start new project
• Share project with teacher
• Add sources

Reflection

WHAT: This artifact is an example of a typical agenda I post when I am introducing a lesson to a class. 

SO WHAT: This artifact is an example of Danielson's Domain 3 - expectations for learning are posted. This is typically up on the screen as students enter the library so that they know what to expect as a learning target goal for the day.

NOW WHAT: I have begun  creating all of my daily agendas in Google Docs so that they are saved and available each time I teach. As I continue to teach and learn what is covered in a typical lesson this is easily revised and I have also begun to add vocabulary words. The vocabulary words are defined above but typically I do not have the definition in as I begin teaching and I discuss meaning of words with my students.

  

Dewey Decimal Lesson with game

WHAT - In these videos 6th grade students practice putting books in correct Dewey Decimal order with other people in their groups. This is an artifact that shows Danielson's Domain 3 for instruction with all students actively engaged in their own learning.

SO WHAT - This game allowed students to use the information I had presented in my lesson a few minutes earlier into group work that actively engaged every single student and helped create a deeper understanding of how to use the library's Dewey Decimal classification to find books that interest them personally.

NOW WHAT - Each year I refine this lesson a bit more. Last year instead of the game shown above where students worked in small groups, students worked on an organizing game as a large group. I noticed that some students acted so shy they were reluctant to participate so what is shown in the above videos is a way for everyone to participate and nobody to feel on the spot by being singled out alone. I am using videos more as I teach so that I can go back later and think about what worked and what did not. For next time I teach this lesson, I plan to simplify the game by taking away the worksheets that went with it. The worksheets gave directions but students got confused and I did not expect them to write anything so it is better to just show directions on overhead screen in the future.

Aha! Got my Voki into my blog

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Ok so steps to getting actual avatar to appear are:
1. Go to create a new post in blogger
2. Click on option/interpret HTML
3. Open HTML tab
4. open other tab in Voki and click "Publish" voki
5. Copy code from Voki
6. Go back to Blogger and paste code onto HTML view

TRMS December 2013 Book Fair

Students enjoy browsing the books at the book fair!

MY REFLECTION

WHAT:
We have a book fair in the library every November/December and then again in in June right before school gets out to promote summer reading. Book fairs fall under Domain 4 of the Danielson book Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching (2007). It falls under Service to School. It also falls under Domain 2:  "Establish a culture for investigation & love of literature."





SO WHAT:
The book fairs are so important because they promote a culture of books and love of books and reading with students.
They are also important because I am able to use much of the profits to give away books to students who have financial situations that do not allow them to buy books. I also share the profits with teachers buying every language arts teacher a big stack of their "wish list" books and every other teacher at least one book they have "wished" for using our teacher wishlist program.

NOW WHAT:
I learned from this past book fair that I need to coordinate the book fair to run at the same time as the student-led parent conferences. This book fair came up about $3,000 less in merchandise sold from the previous year's book fair and I think it is due to the timing of it this year not being during the student-led conferences.

    In this video students get real-life practice with math and money skills as they help out with cash register during the book fair!