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

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

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

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

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

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

Kalyssa Koontz

The Great Depression

The Great Depression was a period within U.S. History in which Americans struggled to make ends meet and get back on their feet. It was a time in which socialism became a very attractive outlook on life. In a three week unit focused on America’s struggle through the Great Depression, students were able to be highly creative in their learning and application of key concepts. Students were able to see how different groups in America fought through and experienced the Great Depression. The highlight of the unit was for students engage in The Great Depression Project. Students worked in groups to create a Great Depression meal, fashion, game a family would play, Hobo symbol sign, and their own Hooverville.

EDUC 415

Vivian Moen

L203

1 – 3 PM

Corinne Maas

Investigating the Human Body

The body is a complex system that works together to allow the body to function properly and efficiently. The body has an incredible ability to heal itself after breaking bones. It uses voluntary and involuntary muscles that are intertwined with nerves that connect to the brain. With the involuntary action of breathing, blood is filtered through the heart. Alongside these systems the body is able fight off diseases and work efficiently without many organs. Fifth grade students will expand their knowledge about these topics during a fifteen lesson intensive unit.

EDUC 415

Vivian Moen

L203

1 – 3 PM

Scott Perkins

Highly Qualified Teachers

Today, teachers must be “highly qualified” to be considered for any teaching position in public education. What does it mean to be “highly qualified”? Who decides if you are fit for teaching in public school? What evidence is there of their decision? This presentation brings to light the importance of a senior work samples as evidence of the high qualification of prospective teachers, as well as some of the do’s and don’ts of work sample creation.

EDUC 415

Vivian Moen

L203

1 – 3 PM

Rachel Schneider

Third Grade Social Studies

This work sample details a Social Studies unit taught to a third grade classroom of 34 students. The unit discussed the topics of Slavery and Civil Rights in the United Sates. It was a two month long series. The unit was designed to be taught to the whole class and is not based on a curriculum. There were topics to cover along with potential materials to use, with the lessons created from there. The cooperating teacher reviewed the lessons, and advised on pacing as well as how to present the material. There were multiple learning styles incorporated in the lessons.

EDUC 415

Vivian Moen

L203

1 – 3 PM

Melissa Webster

Exponents and Exponential Functions

My major work sample is a 14 lesson unit at the high school level on exponents and exponential functions. We discuss multiplication and division properties, negative and zero exponents, graphing of functions, scientific notation, and exponential growth and decay.

EDUC 415

Vivian Moen

L203

1 – 3 PM