Hadley Smith

Educational ! Philosophy

Readers'! Workshop

Mini lesson
I start readers' workshop with a mini lesson to introduce my objective for the day.! A typical readers' mini lesson included analyzing text, critical thinking, and discussion. I use the mini lesson to model critical thinking and my expectations.

Differentiation during Active Involvement

Following my brief teaching portion of the lesson, students practice what I modeled. I use the active involvement portion of my lesson to gradually release responsibility to students.! On the right, I attend to students who need additional support during active involvement. Here, I using probing questions to guide student thinking.

Small Group Instruction

After my mini lesson, I typically pull a small group to dierentiate my instruction based on student readiness.! Here, I work with students on writing eective claims. During readers' workshop students frequently wrote about their reading to engage in critical thinking.

Conferring
During readers' workshop, I meet individually with students to set reading goals and check progress.! Informal conferences allow me to formatively assess students' reading progress at an individual level.! To the right, I meet with a student to create a plan to track comprehension using sticky notes. I take notes during conferences using my iPad (see next slide).

Conferring Template:! Tracking Student Growth

I use a note taking app on my iPad to conference with students. I track students growth and thinking using the template to my right.

Writing about Reading

In our Following Characters into Meaning unit, a student compares the main character in her independent reading book to a text she has previously read to grow ideas about characters.

Writing about Reading

Students respond to their reading by writing about their reading. The above pieces show students exploring characters across text and theme.

Anchor Charts
As a class, we build anchor charts to help organize our strategies and thinking. ! The anchor chart on the right is composed of many mini lesson objectives target statements.

Interactive Read Aloud

I use the interactive read aloud to probe student thinking about concepts and ideas learned in the mini lesson. ! I choose a text that is in students' zone of proximal development and provide additional support.! To the right, a student writes a "Fab Five" to start our read aloud.

Comprehension Strategies in Nonction

Students wrote about their reading. During our nonction unit, students identify main ideas and supporting details to discover the author's message and organize their thinking.

Writers'! Workshop

Mini lesson

During writers' workshop, a brief, eective mini lesson starts the workshop.! Above, students engage in a quick write to practice the descriptive text structure during our informational writing unit.

Here, I work work with students on including eective, supportive evidence and reasoning in our opinion writing unit.

Differentiation during Active Involvement

On the right, I talk to students about what they wrote and their thinking about text structures. ! During turn and talk, I meet with students who may need additional support to guide and probe their thinking and responses.

Small Group Instruction

I dierentiate and plan for small group instruction based on student readiness. ! On the right I meet with a group of students on choosing appropriate, eective text structures to use during our unit that involved creating voicelled, nonction picture books.

Writers' Notebooks
After the mini lesson, students write in their writers' notebooks to practice the skill or concept taught.

Word Study & ! Vocabulary Instruction

Math Workshop

Inquiry-based Mini Lessons: ! "What do you notice?"

Mini lessons in math begin with an inquiry question.! To the right, a student writes his mathematical thinking and reasoning before we share and work though big ideas.

Individual Instruction
During math workshop, students are asked to show their thinking using manipulatives. ! Here, I work with a student on how to show fractions using manipulatives.

Mathematical Exploration using Manipulatives

A instructional goal of mine was to incorporate manipulatives as much as possible during math explorations.! To the right, Students work together to discover what it means to subtract negative numbers by walking through equations on a timeline.

Formative Assessments
Often I pull students up to the front to work on whiteboards. Quickly, I can see what students know and what they do not know yet.

Science

Whole Class Instruction

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Prior to a science investigation, I model how to construct a plane in our Variables unit before releasing students to construct the project independently. ! While I model, I ask content and process related questions according to the GLCE's this unit is working toward.

Science Investigations

Social ! Studies

Engaging Social Studies Instruction

I often had students debate during our Road to the Revolution Unit.

Powerful Social Studies Learning

Here, students analyze dierent perspectives to create a comic strips portraying the Intolerable Acts. ! To complete this task, students must apply their knowledge to create a product.

Classroom! Management

Teaching with Technology

Blogging
During readers' workshop, students often write in response to their reading. ! To foster authentic audience and purpose for writing, students often blog their responses on their individual blogs.

Student Blogs
Each student in my class created their own blog, like the one to the right.! Students used their blogs to publish "Fab 5's", book reviews, book recommendations, reading responses, etc.

Room 15's Class Blog

My mentor teacher and I also used a class blog to communicate with parents about student learning and upcoming events.

Technology as a Resource
To the right, a student uses one of our classroom iPads to look up an unknown word in her independent reading book during readers' workshop.

Epson BrightLink Interactive Projector

During science, I use the interactive projector to write on the board. My ip charts save, and I can refer back to them the next day to launch my lesson.

Document Cameras
I use document cameras frequently during mini lessons and read aloud's. ! On the right, I read a passage of The Giving Tree to launch a lesson regarding multiple approaches to a common theme.

Document Cameras
In math workshop, I often lift student thinking and project responses under the document camera during the inquiry portion of my mini lesson.

Building a Classroom Community

Room 15's Mission Statement

On the rst day of school, students created our class's mission statement. This activity allowed students to create set classroom expectations.

5th Grade! Science Camp

Hands-on Learning

Hands-on Learning

Hands-on Learning

Multicultural Committee

Multicultural Committee!

MLK celebration dinner and presentation of diversity week at WLE.

Student Council

Fundraisers
As a leader of student council, I organized fundraisers. ! Here, members and I make posters to advertise a districtwide fundraiser for a former teacher in need of medical assistance.

Tiger's Den

Teachingrelated ! Experience

Pre-K experience
As a Teacher's Aide at a childcare facility, I often started the morning with a share. This was a management strategy I utilized to ensure focused attention during lessons.

Vacation Bible School Leader

Cheer Coach
As the assistant coach for Waverly Varsity Cheer, I was hands on in teaching new stunt and proper stunting techniques. ! To the right, I y on a new stunt group learning eective hand placement.

Youth and Varsity Cheer Camp

Below, I head varsity cheer camp. A camp, I taught routines, stunts and designed tea building activities.

Above, my variety girls teach proper arm placements during our youth cheer camp that included girls 4th to 7th grade.

Summer Nanny

Professional ! Development

Performance ! Evaluations!

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Cover ! Letter!

Reference!

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