Ms. Anderson

     As I look at the group of students I'm currently working with I see students struggling on different issues for so many different reasons. We each have our own learning curves and mountains to climb. For my students this looks like diagnosed learning disabilities, trauma, misdiagnoses, English being their second language, and trying to be a student during a pandemic for a brief start to a list that can be much longer.     What I personally love about an RTI, is the proactive intervention that is a key component. We as teachers use assessments in an RTI plan to determine what skill students are still needing. These skills can then be taught by the teacher to the students as a differentiated instruction. RTI's allow the teacher to meet the student where they are, and bring them to where they need to be.  We can use RTI's to determine what students are needing more assistance and on what skills specifically.       This is also a p...

    When it comes to a goal based design, Teachers usually set academic pathways with a goal in mind. "These are the standards for this year, standards being our goals, and this is how we will get there" is how a lot of the teachers at my school district see the Oklahoma Academic Standards. The philosophy of  design-down, deliver-up is very applicable to our curriculum alignment. We design to the students academic level and then strengthen those skills to deliver them up to our goals.    Assessments should be used to determine how we have reached a academic goal, and which standards still need to be kept as a goal. Assessments should test the learning objectives and those objectives alone. I usually benchmark assess my students a few weeks into school, then again before Christmas break, and lastly in February. I use these to track students academic growth.       Our 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade team all collects this data and passes along this inf...

  Have you adopted Farrel's backwards planning model as a teacher in planning lessons? Does it help align written curriculum, taught curriculum and assessment? Why and why not? Think about the indicators that matter most to you - how do you plan to evaluate the classroom culture and teaching effectiveness in the future?       I do see myself using Farrel's backwards planning model in correlation to the forward model of planning. I personally include pre and post assessments when it comes to my planning. In the math classes that I teach, I also plan for students to review and practice previously taught standards throughout the year. It is this reviewing of standards and how we have progressed them on to other math skills, that I see myself using the more holistic approach that Farrel's model allows for. I have found this constant review to help students finesse their standards taught from previous grades, as well as their curren...

  Based on your opinion, should or could we adopt dual processes (i.e., naturalistic or technological ) into your curriculum? If not, why? If yes, on what level (elementary, secondary, or post-secondary)? Does such dual approach mechanism provide more educational opportunities, or does it further polarize the society?  Let's talk about what each individual process would even look like in the classroom for teachers and students. There are two main processes that occur in the classroom.       The technological process is straight forward. What are our objectives and what standards do we need to cover? This process is one that I found myself using as I was a new teacher. I was learning my standards and learning how to teach them effectively. I still find myself using this process in my classroom at the beginning of each year, as my students are learning my expectations, and while I'm learning more about them as individuals.     The naturali...