Standard 9: Leadership and Collaboration
9.1 Participates actively in decision making processes, while building a shared culture that affects the s cool and larger educational community
Proffesional learning community
During my student teaching I regularly collaborated with my mentor and the other 5th grade teachers to help support the students in the next science unit. During these meetings we went over student learning goals, enduring understandings, essential questions of the unit. In this manner we ensured that we were taking the most effective actions to ensure our students success. As a team we developed an hands-on inquiry based science unit on chemical changes. Through a series of experiments such as: "making slime" "burning candles in clay" "soap making" and " PH testing" the students were lead to develop ways to identify when a chemical reaction has occurred. These experiments were done with both classes together to promote class collaboration. Here is a reflection I wrote concerning my PLC experience at Beacon Heights Elementary.
School art night auction
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I also worked and built a relationship with the ELP teacher at Beacon Heights to create a quilt to sell at the schools auction in May to promote the arts. The teacher an I had each student bring in fat quarter piece of fabric and had them cut out a pattern and each student sewed their own flower square to add to the quilt. I then helped the teacher sew the quilt together and sent it to a professional to have it quilted. We were able to connect this project to the Utah Core Standards in Math (Geometry, Angles and Measuring) as well as have it promote class collaboration and culture.
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