Educators support, mentor or encourage other educators and those preparing to enter the profession. Educators contribute their expertise to activities offered by their schools, districts, professional organizations, post-secondary institutions or contribute in other ways.
TRB 8 Evidence #1 (excerpts from emails from me and a previous sponsor teacher from September 2016)
I also left my website I built for the class during my last practicum potvinguitar.weebly.com
Reflection on TRB 8 Evidence #1
One of my sponsor teachers was teaching the guitar class for the fall. He is the band teacher but guitar was a little bit out of his comfort zone. I taught the guitar class during my spring 2016 practicum with a different teacher. I did a great job with the class and really enjoyed it. My undergrad degree is a jazz studies degree with guitar being my major instrument.
Not many schools have a guitar program. This program was uniquely structured so that the students were mostly learning songs through guitar tablature and getting descriptive feedback through playing for the teacher.
The pictures above are print screen excerpts from the first email exchange he sent me and the last one where I sent him a bunch of lessons. we exchanged probably 5-6 emails. I was really excited to help him so he could potentially help some of the students who would want to audition for the jazz program at VIU in the next couple years. We agreed that the standards for each level could be focused on alongside the students learning their songs and hopefully give them a deeper understanding of what they are playing. I also built a website that students can use to learn theory and build a musical foundation so that they can start to improvise on songs of their choice. I gave the website to my previous sponsor and left it up and running so that he would have some resources available for the students to learn some theory.
I would jump at the chance to help any teacher teaching a guitar class because I have a strong background in it and hopefully that can make its way into the students learning and experiences.
Not many schools have a guitar program. This program was uniquely structured so that the students were mostly learning songs through guitar tablature and getting descriptive feedback through playing for the teacher.
The pictures above are print screen excerpts from the first email exchange he sent me and the last one where I sent him a bunch of lessons. we exchanged probably 5-6 emails. I was really excited to help him so he could potentially help some of the students who would want to audition for the jazz program at VIU in the next couple years. We agreed that the standards for each level could be focused on alongside the students learning their songs and hopefully give them a deeper understanding of what they are playing. I also built a website that students can use to learn theory and build a musical foundation so that they can start to improvise on songs of their choice. I gave the website to my previous sponsor and left it up and running so that he would have some resources available for the students to learn some theory.
I would jump at the chance to help any teacher teaching a guitar class because I have a strong background in it and hopefully that can make its way into the students learning and experiences.
TRB 8 Evidence #2 (Creating a Dropbox to use as a medium to share successful lesson plans with other teachers)
Dropbox Lesson plan folder
During my education degree there was a lot of talk of creating a place where we could post lesson plans all in one place. I took it upon myself to research a good way to do this and settled upon creating a Dropbox. This would let us get ideas from other lesson plans and serve as a way to collaborate with our Cohorts. I posted my very successful Socials 9 unit from Carihi. I was pretty excited to see that some of my colleagues soon posted successful lesson plans as well. The Idea is that this drop box will go on after our practicums and into our careers. I will continue to post lessons that have worked well for me and make notes on ones that have not went as well in order for others to use them and to learn from what I have done. I in turn will continue to look at my colleagues lessons for ideas that I can take into my own practice.