Looking Forward

Assignment 2 Looking Forward

Damon Garner

National University

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for

TED 690Capstone Course

Dr. Pengilly

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Abstract

The Look Forward paper covers the timeline for the next 5 years of professional

development. The paper will continue to highlight and develop the professional teaching

portfolio and the different artifacts selected to meet Domain F of the TPEs. The

development plan will be focusing on social science professional development and general

teaching strategies.

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Professional Development Planning:

As a thirteen year veteran of teaching Social Science classes across a wide spectrum of

student populations, I have discovered that it is necessary to work on both skills attainment and

content knowledge. My professional development goal is to mix content and professional

teaching skills and strategies for my classroom. I want to mirror what my students are doing in

my class. One thing is certain, continued improvement of a classroom teachers professional

skills, needed to teach all students for the coming century, is imperative. (Ryan, 270) With the

new common core standards for English and History it is imperative that students write a lot

more than they used to. There are many new skills that students are being asked to learn along

with the traditional content standards for social science. It is therefore imperative that my

professional development include elements of both content and skills based strategies.

My professional Development Planning

In year one of my professional development I will continue my mission to reach students

of all levels. The University of San Diego offers courses online that focus on strategies to teach

methods for all learners. All teachers must adhere to the idea that all students deserve equal

access to education. We must meet the diverse students needs and be able to teach effectively to

a diverse level of ability, race, ethnicity, religion, linguistic, gender and those with special needs.

(California Department of Education CAL TPA Handbook, A-4)The class focuses on

implementation of research based strategies and provide further development for differentiating

your instruction.

http://pce.sandiego.edu/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load&courseId=24478&s

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In year two of my five year plan, I will attend AP by the Sea. AP by the Sea is a program

in San Diego that instructs teachers to teach in the AP classroom. Specifically I wish to teach

10th grade AP World History. Teaching high level students will round out my experience of

teaching students from all levels of learning in my teaching career. I have previously taught at an

At Risk high school for six years where my focus was on teaching low level at risk youth. For

three years I worked at an Independent studies program that worked with all levels of students

yet focused on curriculum that was for the regular College Prep level. The last four years I have

worked in a college prep level World and U.S. History classroom. My experience teaching social

science is generally with lower level to an at-level student. Teaching an AP class will allow

me to reach that higher level student and thus round out my experience with all learning levels.

http://www.apbythesea.com/sessions/session-2/world-history-ii

For my third year I will take a course on WWI. As educators in content specific courses it

is imperative that we stay refreshed with the content material. As I teach World and U.S. history,

at the high school level, this course is perfect in that both classes cover WWI. This courses main

objectives are to explore the causes and effects of WWI and how it has shaped much of the

modern world. The culminating project of this course is to create a media rich presentation that

will be of both practical use to me and informative and engaging to the students.

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In year four I will look to develop new strategies on differentiating instruction. Being

able to differentiate instruction is crucial in meeting all students levels of learning. Whether you

are using graphic organizers, KWL charts, or pre-teaching vocabulary you must be able to use

various strategies for reaching low level learners to high level learners. As a lifelong learner

you will always find new and better ways of doing things. The teaching profession is no

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different. Discovering new ways to differentiate instruction is both beneficial to you the educator

and the student. This class will meet my ongoing goal of reaching students of all levels and

making the curriculum comprehensible to students. (TPE 1)

https://extension.ucsd.edu/courses-and-programs/differentiation-system-design-classroom-level-

EDUC-41429

In year five of my professional goal I will continue to enhance my knowledge of the

content standard in a subject that works in both my U.S. and World History classes. There is so

much material on World War II that you could spend years studying just this subject. It is

therefore imperative to spend time exploring new areas in this particular area. We spend a full

six weeks in both my World and U.S. history class on this content standard (California content

standards 10.8 and 10.9 in World History and content standards 11.7 and 11.8 in U.S.). The goal

of this course is to examine the causes and consequences of WWII and the many global facets

that were involved. The culminating project is similar to the WWI course above. You design a

multimedia presentation or simulation that will benefit and engage the students.

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Timeline Professional Goal

2017
EDU-X779 University of San Diego Course Description: Teaching Methods for All
Learners
2018 AP by the Sea
http://www.apbythesea.com/sessions/session-2/world-history-ii
2019 EDU X768J University of San Diego Course Description: WWI - Begin this
exploration and bring history into todays classroom.
2020 EDUC-41429 UC San Diego Course Description
Differentiation System: Classroom Design
2021 EDU - X765J University of San Diego - Course Description: Engage in World War
II Content to Enhance Your Teaching.

Procedure for Sharing my Professional Development Proposal

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My current school, San Juan Hills High School, has an excellent and collaborative

Social Science department. Our team is very open and honest with one another about

curriculum and instruction that meets the needs of our students. A good majority of us take

tremendous pride in our ability to recognize good teaching and continuous growth as a

department. We meet weekly as a department to discuss specific subject goals and

departmental ones as well. As the new school year approaches I will share with my

department this five year plan of professional development.

Artifacts For Domain F

I have been through many professional development trainings over my thirteen

years of teaching. One of the more useful trainings in my particular field has been the

Choices program. The Choices training was very useful in helping give teachers a formula

to follow for incorporating international issues from past to present into the classroom.

The program was led by Mimi Stephens from Brown University. One of the great takeaways

from the professional development was the very high level, critical thinking that was going

on in working through the research and simulation part of the activity. The educators in the

room took on the role of students and we got to participate in a lesson on the Darfur

genocide. This was very useful as it puts us in our students shoes and asks us to do what

we want them to do. You can see problems ahead of time by going through a lesson this

way. The work was very engaging and the presentation, debate and defense of position was

very fun. I used one of these lessons in my class last year and overall the students enjoyed

themselves and would bring up the lesson months later and retained the information.

The second artifact I chose to include was training through the California Subject

Matter Project. This was a district wide professional development where each subject

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matter team was able to receive training that specifically focused on each groups content

area. One of the great benefits to this professional development training was the plethora

of materials we received to plug into our classroom right away. These units of primary

sources are thorough and cover all of the World and U.S. History content standard areas.

My third artifact is my literature review on the benefits to professional development that is

well thought out and useful to the educator and ultimately the students.

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Resource

Ryan, Mark. Ask the Teacher: A Practitioner's Guide to Teaching and Learning in the Diverse
Classroom. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, 2001. Print.