Ms. Rumble's Portfolio
Standard #10:
Collaboration
The teacher seeks appropriate leadership roles and opportunities to take responsibility for student learning, to collaborate with learners, families, colleagues, other school professionals, and community members to ensure learner growth, and to advance the profession.
Artifact #1: EdCamp Certificate
Description: EdCamp is an innovative and forward-thinking professional development event that Mt Blue’s Dan Ryder helped bring to Farmington. I attended the event on Saturday, February 6, at Mt Blue Campus. Teachers from every level of education and all the surrounding towns came together to brainstorm the list of events that we could do that day. EdCamp is unique in that we have no idea what seminars will be available to us until we collaborate and make the schedule together. The events I attended included “Formative Assessment, “ELL,” and “Proficiency-Based Learning.” If you went to an event and did not enjoy the conversations happening, you were welcome to leave and jump into another seminar. EdCamp has a very fluid movement, allowing the flexibility for teachers to attend as many seminars as they would like to.
Rationale: The beauty of EdCamp is that there is not just one speaker at the seminars. Usually a leader emerges to help the groups get started, but from there it’s one big conversation, so it was incredible to be able to speak during seminar, which I did, and offer others what I have learned through my experiences. When I attended the “Formative Assessment” seminar, I was able to talk about Kahoot as a means of bringing technology into the classroom for assessment in an engaging way. I also took notes during that session on a community Google Doc for every attendant to refer back to even after we left EdCamp. I was one of the youngest teachers in attendance and the oldest teacher in attendance was around seventy-years-old with fifty years of teaching experience. I was able to collaborate with a variety of teachers with varying experience in the field, which only enhanced my EdCamp experience.
EdCamp Reflection
Artifact #2: Workshop Day
Description: During my student teaching experience, we had a workshop day where we attended two seminars, one on civil rights and one on trauma in students. During the civil rights presentation, the speaker had us take part in numerous hands-on activities and discussions that aided us in understanding the civil rights issues in schools and in the world that are consistently affecting our students. He addressed the importance and power of civil rights teams in schools and how student involvement in them extends a really powerful image. The speaker for the presentation on trauma discussed how we will never know what students are carrying with them unless we start that conversation, no matter how uncomfortable it may be. She discussed how students don’t leave their lives at the door when they enter the school, and how it’s important for us to acknowledge that fact and look for “red flags” so we can further help and support them. I appreciated her also discussing how teachers can help without taking on that stress and “heavy load” that the students carry.
Rationale: I attended the workshop on civil rights and trauma with my student teaching peers, as well as our supervisors. My colleagues, teaching at various levels of education, offered insight and asked many questions that I would have never thought of before. It was very beneficial to work in small groups at various points of the day to discuss what we had been hearing and brainstorming ways that we could help our variety of learners. That collaboration between the speaker, my colleagues, and myself generated several paths we could take to help address very serious issues in students. We all shared personal stories and experiences that offered real-world experience that could help us in our student teaching and beyond. I took what I learned at the workshop and paid closer attention to my students’ behavior. I’ve been more apt to ask myself “why” when a student falls asleep, or when they act out in class. There’s a story behind every student, and this workshop with my colleagues and professionals helped me attain more insight into that story.
Workshop Day Reflection
