Category: Extra Stuff I Learned

Below is my lesson plan I will use in class this year to introduce Assessment As/Of/For Learning. I will obviously need to do just more than this lesson plan to really introduce the idea of assessing themselves and moving past a failure mindset, to become didactic learners, but this will be a good start. You can either read the file on this current screen or you can flip through the PDF in the link below the photos of the assignment.

I did a test online. You can do the same test here. I found it very interesting. After answering a series of questions about how I like to teach, what information I like my students to receive, how I deal with students and lesson planning, it was able to tell me what it thinks my teaching philosophy was. As it turns out I had nothing that was hugely overpowering, and nothing too under powering between all the teaching styles. In the graph below you can see that Progressive is my leading teaching philosophy and Radical is my least executed philosophy.

I took some snapshots of my top 3 philosophy’s of teaching and here are some points that the website makes about them.

I must say that this is on point for how I am and it’s coincidentally amazing that it’s the type of teaching I am lucky enough to illicit. As it turns out, me in a political science classroom or a philosophy teacher. I don’t see the value in those conversations and I don’t choose to teach like that. I like doing the nuts and bolts of a persons spirit. Giving them real life lessons, guiding learners, knowing everybody has amazing unique potential, helping them understand there role in being a productive member of society while helping my students be active in their quest for knowledge. I am very happy this was included in our coursework because it was great to see that I am indeed in the right profession for myself and the students.

In this lesson I will show you how to add categories to your WordPress website. It doesn’t go too deep but should get you started on playing around a bit easier. It’s super hard to just figure this out and Im hoping this makes it a little easier for you. Click the link below (How to Add Categories Video) to watch me walk you through this process on my computer.

How to Add Categories Video