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