Presentation of Learning
Krystle JohnsonIntern Differentiation Specialist/ Case
ManagerTK-1st grade Teacher
Background• I went to National University to obtain a dual
credential in special education and teaching general education.
• I was a first year teacher at SDCCS 2, switched in November to being part-time SAI/Case manager and part-time teacher under the mentorship of Kate Dickinson
• Next year, I will be a full time Case Manager at SDCCS 1 under the mentorship of Ethan Williams.
TPE’s and MeHow I am…• Making Subject Matter Comprehensible to Students
• Assessing Student Learning
• Engaging and Supporting Students in Learning
• Planning Instruction and Designing Learning Experiences for Students
• Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
• Developing as a Professional Educator
Making Subject Matter Comprehensible to Students
• Differentiation
– Alternate Morning Meeting
– Co-teaching a lesson that highlights different ways students can learn one subject/standard.
– Materials accessible to all students
– Teaching the same idea multiple ways on different days
– Maslow’s Hierarchy
– Learning styles
Assessing Student Learning– Small Center work
– 1:1 work
– Observations in the classroom
– Teacher and Parent interviews
– Woodcock Johnson III
– Common Core Standard Analization
– First Step Phases
Engaging and Supporting Students in Learning
• Interest based centers
• Games
• Flexibility
• Modifications
• Small Center Grouping
• Intentional Grouping/ Pairs
• Scaffolding Learning
• Leadership Skills
• Social Stories
Planning Instruction and Designing Learning Experiences for Students
• Curriculum plans are collaborated on for the week
• Alternate morning meeting addressing skills in a small group
• Bring in interests
• Present problems
• Small group teamwork
• Self-confidence
Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
• Early social skills
• Relationship
• Social rules
• Center rules
• Non-verbal cues and signals
• Natural consequences
• Purposeful freedoms
• Consistency
1. GO TO A CENTER
2. READ THE
DIRECTIONS
3. ASK FOR HELP IF YOU
NEED IT!
4. START
Developing as a Professional Educator
• Attending Alfie Kohn lecture on how students learn on April 23rd
• Using Reading, Writing, and Math Developmental Continuum Books and Phases’
• Exceed training
• Weekly mentor meetings
• Weekly Special Education meetings
• HTH Classes: Put it to Practice, Learning Seminars, using the resources around me
Developing as a Professional Educator through HTH
HTH 103A: Theory of Reading
• Maze Assessments
• DIBELS
• RICA
• Identifying student difficulty in reading
• Phases of learning reading
What I’ve LearnedHTH 110A: Methods
• Autism resources such as: www.autismspeaks.org
www.autisminternetmodules.org
• Ideas for different methods of classroom teaching
• Severe student difficulties and solutions
• Different classroom perspectives
• IEP timelines/ legal cases/ Importance of IEPs
What I’ve LearnedHTH 112: Assistive Technology
• CAST UDL Learning model for curriculum planning
• Every type of assistive technology available to students
• Help with current students
• Assistive Tech resources from multiple places
– CSUN
– PINTREST
– UCP
– GUEST SPEAKER
What I’ve LearnedHTH 112: Assistive Technology
• The importance of the appropriate assistive technology.
Goals for the Future
• Become a 2nd year intern at HTH
• Finish my 2nd year as an intern for SDCCS
• Case manage SDCCS 1 students 5th and 6th
grade
• Continue to seek out experiences to develop as a professional
• Use all resources available to me
• Travel all over the world
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