{"id":42,"date":"2022-11-23T15:52:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T20:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/eportfolio-sample\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2023-05-02T13:41:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T17:41:13","slug":"reflection-on-growth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat23-skrambeer\/philosophy-growth\/reflection-on-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection on Growth in Teaching Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past academic year, I&#8217;ve grown tremendously.&nbsp; The most identifiable areas of growth have been in my ability to meet diverse needs,&nbsp; classroom management, personalization, and teacher clarity. Evidence for these areas can be found in my <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat23-skrambeer\/philosophy-growth\/illustration\/\">illustration of growth.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The population of students in my classroom has helped me better understand how to implement firm goals and flexible means. I have also grown from our professional development on Universal Design from Mirko Chardin. At the start of the year, I assessed students&#8217; mastery of skills through a single means. Now, I begin with the standard and look for ways I can provide flexibility for my students given their individual contexts.<\/p>\n<p>My classroom management skills have grown tremendously over the past year, mostly thanks to my mentor, Jill. With her support, I have learned to stand my ground, say no kindly, and respond to dangerous behaviors calmly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My ability to structure lessons that centered on students&#8217; identities and lived experiences has grown significantly over the past year as well. <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sharing my life and my experiences has translated to empowering students to share their experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest challenges I&#8217;ve faced this year has been in my teacher clarity. At the start of the year, I wanted so desperately to plan fun, engaging lessons that I severely overplanned. I created goals that were unattainable and unrealistic. While I still plan thoroughly I have gotten better at identifying clear, realistic goals from the standards. My clear goals have helped me adjust my practice when things haven&#8217;t gone to plan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past academic year, I&#8217;ve grown tremendously.&nbsp; The most identifiable areas of growth have been in my ability to meet diverse needs,&nbsp; classroom management, personalization, and teacher clarity. Evidence &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat23-skrambeer\/philosophy-growth\/reflection-on-growth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reflection on Growth in Teaching Practice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-42","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat23-skrambeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat23-skrambeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat23-skrambeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat23-skrambeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat23-skrambeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat23-skrambeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat23-skrambeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat23-skrambeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}