Aubree Clark's Portfilio

Standard Four in Seattle Pacific University's standards for Teacher Leadership is to " engage in analysis of teaching and collaborative practices ".  While I have had the opportunity to do this throughout this program, my learning experiences in EDU 6528, Accomplished Teaching, showcase this standard well.  Linked here, you can take a look at my initial reflection at the beginning of the course.  This gives you an idea of what my goals were heading into the course and how I intended to accomplish them.  Reading back through this, I was shocked to realize how much more confident I now am in selecting appropriate teaching strategies.  While this was only last school year, the work that was done throughout this course and many others has drastically changed my teaching practices.  My final reflection of the course, linked here , highlights the direction I took in my learning.  It also shows how I connected my learning from standard 3 with research to ...

Over the course of this quarter, my confidence in using and naming instructional strategies has drastically increased.   While I already had knowledge of many of these strategies under my belt prior to taking this course and used them frequently, I was not in a position to effectively teach them to others or even collect data on them within my own teaching.   One of the most powerful pieces to my learning in this course was being able to put a name to the strategies that I’ve previously found successful within my own teaching.   With now having the increased knowledge of names of instructional strategies, areas in lessons and units that they are most effective, and an ability to take data of them, I am able to have meaningful conversations with other educators.   I also have more tools for my teacher leader “toolkit” as far as guiding teachers to effective, research based strategies that help further student learning.   In addition to the deep dive in...