Tag: EDUC

Mikayla Gattie

Evaluating Student Progress in Middle School 

This poster will include data collected from a Briggs Middle School classroom where I had the privilege to teach for the past semester. The data will also be featured in an extensive work sample that will include work from a low-achieving student, a grade-level achieving student, & a high-achieving student. The poster will show copies of the pre/post test, graphs of student achievement, & samples of the performance task. Come learn what middle school teens are learning!

EDUC 415

Vivian Moen

L203

1 – 3 PM

Jason Haggard

Are You Smarter than a 6th Grader?

An assessment of materials taught this year. Focus on the evaluation of 3 students’ progress in the span of one chapter, eleven lessons, & four learning targets. These 6th grade students learn how to calculate a part of another part, a.k.a. fraction-sense; discover how to multiply fractions, mixed numbers, & decimals; find the area of shapes, including rectangles, triangles, parallelograms, & trapezoids; & break complex shapes into smaller pieces to find area. Let’s see if you can do any better…

EDUC 415

Vivian Moen

L203

1 – 3 PM

Stephanie Harrison & Linda Paredes

Classroom Management

We will be exploring the similarities & differences between lower & upper elementary incentives systems in the classroom. Motivation will be discussed & define. (Internal/external.) We will describe positive & negative incentives & how each age has a different type of motivation; therefore they need a different incentive system. We will describe the difference & importance of individual & class incentives & how they vary between lower & upper elementary & give examples of different individual & class incentive system. Lastly, we will include the negative effects of no incentive system & why it would create an ineffective classroom.

EDUC 321

Brian Kaelin

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Maren Mansfield

Writing in Kindergarten

My Work Sample this year focused on Writing at the Kindergarten level. This subject interested me because students at this age are just beginning the process of writing. It was just that, a process. It was thrilling to see these students start with no skills & knowledge & develop their minds to forming sentences & producing words. Each student wrote a short story with all of the elements. The creativity involved with students five or six years was astounding. This unit was not a pre-planned curriculum.

EDUC 415

Vivian Moen

L203

1 – 3 PM

Kathryn Peterson

El Cuerpo Humano

This Work Sample was developed for students in the first stage of linguistic acquisition & was taught to a Kindergarten class in a dual-immersion setting. We will discuss my findings on their language acquisition & vocabulary knowledge, as well as the instructional strategies that helped to manage classroom behaviors while this Work Sample was taught.

EDUC 415

Vivian Moen

L203

1 – 3 PM

Danielle Rocco

Kindergarten Reading

This project will evaluate how well students can recognize the letter names & the letter sounds of the alphabet. This evaluation serves as an Pre & Post test for students. Students will have 24 letter names; both lowercase & uppercase & 24 letter sounds; both lowercase & uppercase to identify. Students will also be tested on 8 sight words. This will bring the assessment to a total of 32 points. Three different levels of students will be evaluated based on a specific performance task.

EDUC 415

Vivian Moen

L203

1 – 3 PM

Annie Jo Wilson

Setting the Perfect Classroom Climate

This poster presentation will be a display of my work sample. All teachers know that the first day of the school year is the most important. The way that you portray yourself & your classroom will set a standard for the rest of the year. It is very vital that on the first day the teacher sets a particular climate. This poster will give information about the importance of the first impression as well as give tips & activities a teacher could do to immediately start creating a positive relationship with their students.

EDUC 415

Vivian Moen

L203

1 – 3 PM

Samantha Wolle

Kindergarten Concept Words

These words are based on a test called the Boehm Concept Language Test. Within the test students must mark pictures that describe the statement connected to the pictures. I took this test & broke apart the words into different lessons so that the students could get practice on the words that they may not know. To teach these words the unit will incorporate Language Art standards as well as Speaking & Listening standards. There are more content areas covered, however, the majority of the Unit focuses on these content areas. The main goal of this unit is to not only to further their understanding of the words but to also help them succeed on the Boehm Concept Lang.

EDUC 415

Vivian Moen

L203

1 – 3 PM

Ivy Simpson

Classroom Management: Success by Organization

This research project focuses on the importance of organization by a classroom teacher, & how it affects his or her students’ learning outcomes. Room organization, structure & layout, & teacher preparedness in lessons & management are keys to success for a teacher running an efficient learning environment. These aspects of classroom management can make a teacher’s daily routine easier, more effective, & create more time for learning. Based upon research, potential management strategies will be shared, with organization in consideration. Research done by educators including Fred Jones, Jack Snowman, Debbie Diller, Randy Sprick, David Sadker, & Harry Wong.

EDUC 321

Brian Kaelin

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Megan Baum & Danielle Schmidt

Developmental Domains

This is a case study on a six year old girl whom we have collected data on by several different techniques. By observation, interviews, tests, and extant data we have been able to analyze her development in each of the five domains. We closely examined her in the developmental domains of physical, cognitive, social, moral and personal. After data collection and review it has led us to analyze her development and compare it to another case study participant.

EDUC 330/370

Brian Kaelin

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Allison Duvenez & Jordan Miller

The Case Study of Brother and Sister

This case study is on a two siblings, brother and sister. We are observing and evaluating where they are at in five different domains; cognitive development, physical development, identity development, social development, and moral development. We have been conducting interviews with the participants and their parents over the past couple of months. Also observing them in school and/or athletic activities to see how they interact with their peers. We will be showing where they are developmentally and also sharing how they affect each other’s development.

EDUC 330/370

Brian Kaelin

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Stephanie Harrison & Linda Paredes

Development of a Six-year old Boy

This paper investigates five of six-year-old Cody and Carter’s developmental domains, which are cognitive, physical, social, personal, and moral development. For the purposes of this research, interviews of Cody and Carter, their families, and teachers, experiments, observations, and tests were used. All the facets of research helped to diagnose Cody and Carter’s developmental level in each domain. The research shows that Cody and Carter are developing normally in all areas. For a continued normal development minor suggestions had been made in each developmental domain.

EDUC 330/370

Brian Kaelin

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Scott Perkins

Mathematics as a Step-by-Step Process (Senior Work Sample)

When most people hear the phrase “mathematics,” they admit a certain negative view of this branch of knowledge. If you ask someone, they will often say that they had a “bad experience” in school or that it never really “clicked”. The focus of this work sample was in presenting

mathematics as a step-by-step process, developed by human beings throughout history, and not something that is beyond anyone.

EDUC 496

Jim Howard

A201

1:30 – 2 PM

Ivy Simpson

Child Development Case Study

The reason for this research-based project is to evaluate a child developmentally in comparison to other children their age. The student will be evaluated to see if they are progressing normally according to the educational research of psychologists like Piaget, Marcia, Bandura, and others. Over a month, data was gathered from the subjects of this research project, third-grade boy and girl twins who are referred to as James and Rosie. Data was collected in cognitive, physical, personal, identity, and moral categories and will be compared to data collected by education researchers. Evaluations and recommendations will be made based upon the twins’ progress. It appears that James and Rosie are developing normally.

EDUC 330/370

Brian Kaelin

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Kelsey Atkins

Literature Novel Study

My work sample was a literature novel study as a whole class reading The BFG by Roald Dahl. This is a fun book in which the students are practiced their decoding skills with nonsense words, sequence of events, vocabulary, making inferences, comprehension through context clues, and much more. As a final book report project for the novel The BFG, each student created a diorama.

EDUC 415

Vivian Moen

L203

1 – 3 PM

Jordan Bennett, Tamara Brown & Gabrielle Stover

Incentives in the Classroom

Junior year in the Education program at NCU requires students to spend 90 hours per semester observing classrooms in their perspective grade levels. Our time in the classroom has shown us the effectiveness of using rewards as an incentive. We found that teachers who focus on and actively reinforce classroom management techniques are the ones who really see an improvement in behavior among students. Incentives hold a great power in driving students towards achieving things they didn’t believe possible and for that reason, we see rewards as a very valuable tool within the classroom.

EDUC 321

Brian Kaelin

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Shawna Bradley

Whatever the Weather

Many adults understand but are often confused by the plethora of weather conditions that affect our beautiful planet Earth. How do older children and adults come to know the science behind weather conditions such as tornadoes, blizzards, hurricanes, tsunamis, and thunderstorms? They begin by learning about weather through their senses when they are young children. Kindergarten teachers should teach children the most basic information about weather so they may have concrete experiences that help build knowledge. This can happen through hands-on lessons that allow young children to learn about weather conditions by seeing, touching, smelling, feeling, hearing, tasting and experiencing.

EDUC 415

Vivian Moen

L203

1 – 3 PM

William Bradley

High School Algebra 1

The work sample is based on my experience teaching at South Albany High School. The area of Algebra 1 is covered, as well as a collection of 15 different lesson plans that I created and taught to the students. The work sample also covers my thoughts on the issue of classroom management, unit description, and an observation of classroom and school policies at the high school.

EDUC 415

Vivian Moen

L203

1 – 3 PM

Christina Burian, Heidi Gori, Kathryn Peterson & Shelby Peterson

Classroom Thematic Layout

This presentation will focus on the layout and thematic change in the classroom can affect the students learning and behavior. It will cite research from major educational journals that suggest layouts and changes that cater to the teachers learning style and educational approach. We will suggest our own interpretation of the research and offer up some comprehensive strategies that will help manage behavior and learning in certain layouts and thematic units.

EDUC 321

Brian Kaelin

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Tammie Christianson & Mikayla Gattie

Alternative Comparisons

This presentation will look at the differences and similarities between to nontraditional schools. The Academy of Arts and Academics is a public charter in Springfield, Oregon. It has an arts core that is cross-curricular with an emphasis on project based learning. The other school the presentation includes is Kalapuya High School in Eugene’s Bethel school district. It is an alternative school for students who have trouble achieving goals in a traditional environment. It also promotes the use of project-based learning.

EDUC 321

Brian Kaelin

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Keegan Clark

Second Grade Mathematics: Working with 100

This is a second grade mathematics unit focusing on number sense, place value, addition and subtraction within 100, and applying these concepts to money and coin values. Students will participate in a number of interactive games to build their number fluency and engage their critical thinking skills. Students will also create projects that emphasize the structure and sequence of numbers in the base-ten system. These skills will enable students to build a foundation for multiplication and division operations later in third grade.

EDUC 415

Vivian Moen

L203

1 – 3 PM

Ashlee Conley

Anne Frank: No Longer a Bystander

My work sample is about the diary of Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl who hid from the Nazis for two years. The unit teaches students about the Holocaust and modern day social injustice. As a class, we discuss ways to create tolerance and help others. The unit culminates with a service project where the students actively work to make the school a more tolerant place.

EDUC 415

Vivian Moen

L203

1 – 3 PM

Tara Cook

Seventh Grade Language Arts

This is a sample of a three week unit that I taught at the 7th grade Language arts level. In this binder you will find five sections. The first section encompasses student data, a description of my unit, and the lessons I taught. In the second section you will find the rules and procedures for this classroom as well as my management plan and strategies. The third section will show you how I plan to assess the students’ achievement growth. Evaluating student progress in what the fourth section is all about student learning. The fifth second encompasses my professional behavior.

EDUC 415

Vivian Moen

L203

1 – 3 PM

Austin Crook, Lindsey Lloyd, Maren Mansfield & Kyla Walley

Strategies in Volume Control

This group has researched the different methods of classroom volume control within each authorization level within the education system. Two of the group members have dedicated their research to the high school level and the two other group members have individually dedicated themselves to the middle and elementary level. The research uncovered similar techniques in controlling classroom volume across the board with only a few exceptions. 

EDUC 321

Brian Kaelin

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Kristen DeHaven

Second Grade Plants

Students participating in this second grade plant unit were encouraged to make independent discoveries and presented with many opportunities for hands on inquire. Students were able to observe, predict and record data on regular bases in order to familiarize themselves with these practices. Students were able to incorporate scientific discoveries with literature and art in order to learn about plants in a more complete structure. Students who took part in this unit were graded based on growth and individual performance as well as expectations.

EDUC 415

Vivian Moen

L203

1 – 3 PM

Daniel Endicott

Math and Language Arts

The is the Senior work sample in the major field of licensure. It combines multiple subjects (Math and Language Arts), along with differentiated assessment and engagement strategies to achieve student progress and monitor positive learning outcomes. This is a culmination of effort for the transition of putting student teaching into an effective work study program or internship.

EDUC 415

Vivian Moen

L203

1 – 3 PM