Mrs. Mahoney's Site of Exellence Portfolio

A continuous epic journey

Mrs. Mahoney's Site of Exellence Portfolio

First Blog post – the first step in great adventure!

WordPress is taking a while to get the hang of….

This is the wisdom that I have gleaned from EDUC 394 on Monday September 14.

It is important to model your strategies so learners can align with them.

It is important to make ideas into questions so that don’t come off as preaching or judgment.

Look at your mindset: Stay positive

Be prepared: Plans take as long as delivering the material : Minute for minute.

Try to practice feedback with 2 Aha’s and 1 Hmm (Two stars and a wish)

Key learning from the Palmer reading: Know who you are, Understand yourself, Be outward facing, Share your thinking, inspire from your passions, keep it fun!

The 3 parts of this course: Pedagogy: What is needed for teaching? Curriculum: What is BC’s Curriculum? Teaching: What is Apprenticeship by observation?

A Book was read aloud to the class entitled “What’s my Superpower” by Aviaq Johnston. It was about finding our own talents and sharing them. I will include a link to the book and the children’s book publisher.

https://inhabitbooks.com/products/in9781772271409

Techniques introduced: Scaffolding Tasks, Soft vs. Hard stops

Homework: learn more about Canva for info graphics

About Your Posts

Blog posts are formative and used for self-reflection.

Most of the resources in this e-portfolio are arranged in [Pages].  This entry is a [Post]. So DO NOT “edit” the page. Add a “new” post instead.

Some of the key differences between posts and pages are:

  • Posts are timely content part of a series of posts in a blog. Pages are static documents which are not tied to the blog’s reverse chronological order of content
  • Pages can be hierarchical, which means a page can have sub pages, for example a parent page titled “About us” can have a sub-page called “Our history”. On the other hand posts are not hierarchical.
  • By default posts in WordPress can be sorted into taxonomies Categories and Tags. Pages do not have categories or tags.
  • WordPress posts are displayed in RSS feeds while Pages are excluded from feeds.

Posts are a great way to record short reflections on a particular topic.  When you are ready to start adding posts to your ePortfolio delete this post and add your own.

In EDUC 394, we will be engaged in regular weekly reflections. Some learning experiences maybe prompted for the Professional Standards webpages, but learning that happened during each week, whether it be a reading, small group discussion, guest speaker, class-wide learning experience, etc., you can choose what learning had impacted or made an impression on you and your future practice as a K-12 educator.

Formative assessment means… to form and inform learning… so consider blog posts as an opportunity to use the e-portfolio platform and writing to reflect, sense-make, and wonder. The focus remains on your learning within EDUC 394 and the UNBC Teacher Education Program.

Success Criteria:

  1. A weekly 300-500 word reflection on the learning in EDUC 394.
  2. Describe the experience, what did you learn, and why it matters.
  3. Add an image, link, or quote to complement the text.
  4. Be compliant to the Professional Standards for BC Educators.

Powered by WordPress & Theme by Anders Norén