EPortfolio

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E-Portfolio
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Objectives

• Measurement tool for self-assessment
• Verification of skills and ability
• Activities to relate instruction and assessment
• Examine products, processes and strategies

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Main Menu

• Educational philosophy
• Resume
• Lesson plans
• Self-reflection
• Professional goals
• Service learning

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Educational Philosophy

• "I am a Teacher" an excerpt from Chicken Soup
  for the Soul by John W. Schlatter
• I am a Teacher. I was born the first moment that
  a question leaped from the mouth of a child.
• I have been many people in many places.
• I am Socrates exciting the youth of Athens to
  discover new ideas though the use of questions
• I am Aesop and Hans Christian Andersen revealing
  truth through countless stories.
• The names of those who have practiced my
  profession ring like a hall of fame for humanity
  . . . Booker T. Washington, Buddha, Confucious,
  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Leo Buscaglia, Moses, and
  Jesus
• I am the most fortunate of all who labor. And who
  do I have to thank for this wonderful life I am
  so fortunate to experience, but you the public,
  the parents.
• For you have done me the great honor to entrust
  to me your greatest contribution to eternity, 
  your children.
• And so I have a past that is rich in memories. I
  have a present that is challenging and
  adventurous because I am allowed to spend my days
  with the future.
• I am a teacher . . . and I thank God for it every
  day.
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Resume

• Graduate of The University of Scranton 2002
• In-service teaching Blue Ridge (Fall 2001)
• Click to open Resume
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Lesson Plans

• Math Lesson second grade
• Science Lesson second grade
• Video how to moderate discussion in a room full
  of strangers
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Self-reflection

• "He who lost the child in himself is absolutely
  unfit for the great work of education.
  (Rabindranath Tagore)
• The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a
  teacher should be not to impart his/her own
  opinions but to kindle the minds.
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Professional Goals

• This year I had the opportunity to attend a
  seminar sponsored by the Northeastern
  Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
  There I observed teachers sharing ideas and
  working through problems together. The main drive
  of the meeting was emphasizing the NCTM
  curriculum standards especially Math as Problem
  Solving, Math as Communication, Math as Reasoning
  and Math Connections. Because these four
  standards span grades K-12, there is a lot of
  attention paid to them. They had a variety of
  helpful hints for all grade levels. There was a
  wealth of knowledge for elementary teachers. I
  suppose the reason for this is because sometimes
  elementary teachers are scared of math, or have
  low abilities in math and NCTM really wants math
  to be fun at all levels. NPCTM seems to be doing
  a good job of keeping teachers up-to-date with
  materials and information. If they keep this up,
  they will surely succeed in making math education
  more accessible to all students.
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Service learning

• I had some more tutoring assignments this year.
  This year, I got to work with college students.
  The math they were doing was at a much higher
  level than the math I was tutoring last year, but
  that was okay, because it gave me an opportunity
  to try different things. Most of my students this
  year thought that they would have more problems
  than they really did. I was lucky, because
  instead of purely remediating, I was able to
  teach ahead and get them better prepared for
  class. I found the experience overall rewarding
  and might consider teaching at the college level
  sometime in the future.
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