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Professional Responsibilities for Self-Renewal

Professional Development
Activity/Event Date & Description/Details Artifact Finish this thought: From this
Time to Remember professional development activity, I
learned…
1. Faculty January 14, Donna Minnix gave This is the handout that she provided to go along with her I learned that:
Senate 2022 a presentation presentation.  Different learning
Meeting – 1:00 PM during the faculty experiences are based on a
Principles of senate meeting at student’s readiness,
Differentiated Brushfork interest, and learning
Instruction Elementary School profiles
on the Principles of  Different tasks are adjusted
Differentiated based on assessment data
Instruction  Different kinds of strategies
and examples of
differentiated instruction

Some of the examples included:

 Creating learning stations
 Using task cards
 Grouping students with
similar learning styles
 Make time for journaling
 Virtual field trips for
content
 Relate math to personal
interests and everyday
examples

It is important to analyze my
own approaches to
differentiated content,
processes, and products to help
determine their effectiveness
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2. Teaching Webinar 60  Children are This is the certificate of completion I learned a good teacher
High Risk mins. products of  Understands that home lives
Students in Viewed their affect children in different
Urban 8/10/2020 environment, ways, and you always need to
Classrooms and children remember that not all children
who grow up in grow up in ideal homes.
rough  Sometimes you will teach
neighborhoods children who have no one at
may be difficult home to look up to, so when
to teach. they are in your classroom you
 No matter what need to be the person they can
color/race you look up to.
are, when you  Always remains persistent when
first start it comes to teaching children, it
teaching in the might take a while to get
“hood”, some if through to a kid but you need to
not most always keep trying for the sake
students will of the child.
probably reject
you at first.
 No matter what
you need to
stand your
ground and not
let your
students
boss/bully you
around. You are
in charge in
your classroom
and they are
not.
3. VDOE Completed This was an online The certificate that I received upon completion. I learned that…
Dyslexia March 4, module in which - College students with
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Awareness 2022 taught about what dyslexia most of the time

Module Dyslexia is, how to need accommodations for
determine whether things such as slow reading
or not a student has rate and problems with
the disability, and written expression
how to work with - Students with dyslexia are
these students in the not all the same
classroom. - They can be very different
from one another
- Screening is done early
- Phonological Awareness
and Literacy Screening
(PALS-K) developed as
part of EIRI is administered
as identification tools
- Phonemic awareness is a
big indicator of the
possibility of dyslexia
- There are helpful
technological tools that can
include word predicting
text, word to text, and more
- Learning Ally and
Bookshare are 2 programs
that can help eligible
students
4. VDOE Completed This was another The certificate of completion I learned…
Recognizing March 4, online module that I - How to get background
and Reporting 2022 completed. This knowledge on the
Child Abuse was a training that background information
and Neglect taught me how to that will be learned about
report as well as - The role that Child
notice when there Protective services and I as
could be a possible an educator play in the
case of abuse or safety and well-being of the
neglect to students. children
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This also gave me - Teachers are mandated to

the proper steps of report suspected child
how to report and abuse immediately
form enough - There are 4 types of child
thoughts of whether abuse – physical abuse,
or not they are neglect, sexual abuse and
being abused and emotional maltreatment
neglected
5. CAEP October 28, This presentation The certificate of completion I learned that it is important to ask
Family 2020 takes in different open ended questions and give
Engagement 8:30 PM outlooks of the parents the opportunity to give any
Course various methods of information that they think that the
Parent-Teacher communication that teacher should know about their
Conference Pt. can be used child. This gives the opportunity for
1 and 2 between teachers the teacher to listen to the input of
and their students the parents and take into
and touches base on consideration the inputs from the
topics on things people that are at home with the
such as family students and can give you a missing
engagement, and link that might have seemed
the ways in which impossible on their own in the
parent-teacher classroom.
conferences can be
held and the way in
which those will
prove to be
productive and
beneficial for
everyone, but
mainly for the
student.
6. IXL September This was a training This was the handout for the training that we used to refer to. I learned that…
Training 30, 2021 provided by - How to refer back to my
10:00 AM Amanda Etter in students group scores as a
which she talks whole
about the various - How to find the students
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usages of the score chart

program IXL and - How to get the students all
the steps that on one page in terms of
should be taken to grades and activities
properly use the - The math awards that they
system. have are based on their
grade level game board
- Some of the various skills
to earn these different
prizes include mastering a
specific number of skills,
working for a certain
amount of time, or
completing a set number of
questions
- Different challenge types
include mastery of a
specific number of skills,
time spent practicing math,
mastery of several skills in
specific category and more
- Teachers and students can
go to the awards tab to see
the prizes that have been
earned
- There is a certificate center
that helps to celebrate
different milestones on IXL
- There are some handy
resources from Teachers
Pay teachers that also go
with the different awards
that come from IXL
7. Dealing January 14, This training was This was the itinerary of the day of the trauma response training. I learned that…
with the 2022 done by Miss - It is very important to get
Trauma 2:45 PM Shellie at Brushfork ahead of the trauma
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Response Elementary School response child and any

Child and had a main outbursts that they might
focus on being able have
to difuse the trauma - It is important that we take
response child their reaction seriously
before things begin - Correct any information
to get out of hand. that might exist about the
trauma
- Children have several
different reactions in
different cases
- This can include depressive
symptoms or anxiety,
behavioral changes,
difficultly with self-
regulation
- Reassure them that what
happened was not their
fault
- Help the students to relax
- This can include
encouraging the students to
breath slow, listen to
calming music, thinking
positive things, giving them
a reason to believe and
understand that they are
safe where they are at.
8. Managing March 24, This was a training This is the scoring page that we received for the training. (I kept an I learned that…
the Defiant 2021 done by Trena extra for my PD file) - We as adults have pattern
Child 2:45 PM Hurley about the - We need to stay away from
different ways in the no, no, no, no, yes
which we can method.
manage the defiant - The students have learned
child. Although this how to pick up on such
is a training that is patterns
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more geared - It important that we say and

towards parents, mean the word no
there are aspects of - There are a few different
this professional reasons that children
development that misbehave
were very helpful in - This includes psychological
the world of an problems and emotional
educator. This was problems
presented in video - If you want control, you
as well by Dr. Tony have to pull in the reins
Scamella - It is important to think
about what they are doing
and what you’re doing
- High standards are another
concept that should be
taken into consideration in
forming a classroom
environment
9. Youth October 18 This was a training This is the certificate that I was awarded upon completion of the I learned that…
Mental First and 25 done by Kenneth training course - You should ask if someone
Aid Training (Completed Birchfield at is feeling suicidal
on the 25th) Bluefield State - Depression can be found in
4:00 PM College that people of all ages and look
focused on the different in those people as
different ways in well
which educators - It is important to let people
should interact with know that they can talk to
their students and you about it when THEY
should be able to feel comfortable doing so
refer them to the - Panic attacks and heart
proper attacks are very similar and
professionals for there is a very tough time
their mental health determining the different
based off of this between the two
training session. - Exercise can actually help
to relieve depressive and
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anxiety disorders
- It is best to not try to reason
with people having
delusions
- Trauma is a risk factor in
almost every type of mental
illness
- Spirituality can actually be
a protective factor and can
keep a young person from
developing a mental illness
or minimizing the impact of
the illness
- People with mental health
problems tend to have a
better outcome if family
members are not critical of
them
10. March 27, This was an online I learned that…
Implementing 2021 module that went - When incorporating the
the Online over the planning engineering process, I
Engineering and incorporating should know how to
Design design challenges in o Assess the learning
Process the classroom based in a design
on engineering challenge
designs. o Be able to manage
group work
o Manage the
materials
o Plan and design
challenges
o Introduce the
engineering design
process
o know how to teach
your groups to
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work strategically
o manage the small
groups through
dividing students
into groups of three
o assigning students
different roles
o Having the students
participate in peer
assessment in
which they assess
themselves.
o Clearly organize
the material by type
o To plan ahead
o Being able to
embrace the mess
o Making sure to test
any challenge that
we intend to do at a
later tome to check
if it works
o Time myself while
taking the
challenge.
o Some intro
challenges can
include a bunny
copter or toothpick
towers
o I have to bring the
class together as
one as they begin
each step of their
engineering design
o Be ready with
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questions so that
the students will
know what is going
on.
o Have a plan for
occupying students
who finish early