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=// Monday (1/2) //= // New Year's Day School Holiday //

// Student Holiday - Teacher Workday //
 * // Tuesday (1/3) //**

// Wednesday (1/4) //

Although there are still two weeks left in this semester, it's the beginning of a new calendar year. Take this moment to reflect on actions that will help you achieve important goals before or by the end of the school year.
 * Happy New Year! It's 2017 **
 * What are your plans for the New Year? **





On the handout, fold in the shutter fold with the numbers corresponding.
 * Color the front numbers creatively
 * On the inside flaps, follow the writing prompts.
 * When finished, turn in as directed.
 * We will revisit these throughout the spring semester.

**Portfolio Development**
 * What is Career Cruising? Learn how this internet website can become a great tool in making plans for your future.
 * Set up an account following classroom protocol.

Log on to Career Cruising by visiting your campus website.
 * [|Birdville High School]
 * [|Haltom High School]
 * [|Richland High School]


 * If you have created an account in the past, log in using the username and password created previously.
 * If you have never created an account, visit the Career Cruising tab on your high school campus website. Follow the guide to create a username and password that will allow you to create a Career Cruising account.

Example: bird-123456 Example: b01012001 IMPORTANT: Record you login and password in your secret folder once you set up your account. Let Mrs. Kallas know immediately if you are not able to set up an account.
 * Username: ** bird- + 6 digit student ID
 * Password: ** Your birthdate - bmmddyyyy

Use the notebook rubric below to prepare your notebook for evaluation. You will need to score and total you notebook before you turn it in today!



NOTE: The last day to turn in your notebook is on __**Thursday, January 14.**__

= = =// Tuesday (1/5) //= To be an effective teacher, you have to have knowledge of three areas:
 * What Type of Learner are You? **
 * Knowledge of self
 * Knowledge of students
 * Knowledge of content area

You will focus on knowledge of yourself during the next few weeks. As you discover how you best learn, you will add this information to the **Portfolio** section of your binder. Pay special attention to your discoveries about yourself. Research shows that how you prefer to learn dictates the style in which you prefer to teach. An awareness to this is important because a good teacher has to meet the learning styles of ALL students, not just a few.


 * Portfolio Development Activity #1 **

Global or Analytical? What do these words means? How do they apply to the way we use our brains? Are you a global thinker or an analytical thinker? What does that mean about how you learn?

Take the Zenhausen Hemisphericity Inventory. Score your answers as indicated. Next, mark your results on the scale. Which side of your brain is the dominant side? By how much? What does that mean?

Read how hemisphericity affects the way you prefer to learn. Record the characteristics in your journal that best describe you. Discuss your similarities and differences with learners in your group. So, how do teachers determine students' learning preferences without giving them an assessment? Through observation, of course. Teachers see and hear clues daily that alert them to their learners' learning preferences. That is why it is import ant that you have an understanding of your learning preferences and a knowledge of what others may have.

Review the info rmational handout specifying what global and analytical learners would say. Highlight the items that particularly speak to you. Did you highlight more items on the global list or on the analytical list? Which hemisphere do you prefer to use? How can you work on using the "weaker" hemisphere of your brain more?

After y ou read about this, complete the cut and paste activity and see if you can identify global and analytical learners. Turn it in to the tray.



Use the notebook rubric below to prepare your notebook for evaluation. You will need to score and total you notebook before you turn it in today!

NOTE: The last day to turn in your notebook is on __**Thursday, January 14.**__

=// Wednesday (1/6) //=

Continue to find out more about how you learn best.
 * What Type of Learner are You? **

Mark the items that affect the way you best learn on the Learning Styles Model developed by researchers Kenneth and Rita Dunn as they are discussed in class.
 * Portfolio Development Activity #2 **

Finish any remaining work you have from Monday and Tuesday. Be sure to turn your work in to gain credit.

=// Thursday (1/7) //=

Before we left for the holiday break, you studied the history of education in the United States from the Early Colonial Period to the present. Now, let's focus on what was happening in Birdville ISD as it grew from a settlement into the 20,000 student school district it is today.

Where is Birdville, TX?

How did the Birdville ISD get its name?

What was it like to be a student in the BISD in the early part of the century?

Find out how BISD evolved into the 20,000+ district it is today.

Listen to Betty Porter, Birdville Museum, share artifacts, memories, and more.

=// Friday - Tuesday (1/8, 1/11, 1/12) //= Difficult situations occur throughout life. In many cases, difficulties are not situations we choose, nor can we plan when they happen. However, we do have choices in how we react and deal with the situations life deals us. Watch one individual's struggle to become the great teacher he knows he can be in the Hallmark movie, //**Front of the Class**//.
 * Overcoming Obstacles in 2015 **

NOTE: Report to the BCTAL theatre immediately. Do not stop by the classroom. Be sure to sign in each day. Sign in for yourself only. Complete the daily viewer's guide and turn them in. If you are absent, it is up to you to make up viewing the segment you missed.

Complete watching the Hallmark movie, //**Front of the Class**//.
 * Complete the 3-part viewer's guide, staple in order, and turn in.

Review your guest speaker guide from Friday and make any additions or changes before you turn it in.

=// Wednesday (1/13) //= What is Your Learning Style?
 * Portfolio Development **

Watch the following video to learn about why knowing your learning styles is important. Find out what they say about you. How can they help you?

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Read pp. 197 -199 in Teaching. Review the chart on p. 198 and look at the characteristics that resonate with you. Which learning strategies best fit your style of learning? What would you consider to be your primary and secondary learning styles?

Discussion questions:
 * How can knowing what your learning styles are help you be a better student?
 * Why do teachers need to be aware their students' learning styles?

What learning style would be linked to the following ways a young child might learn the alphabet?
 * Singing the "ABC" song
 * Placing magnetic alphabet shapes on a refrigerator door and identifying them
 * Creating letter shapes with the fingers


 * Portfolio Development Activity #3 **

Login to your Career Cruising account. Under "Assessments" select "Learning Styles." Take the Learning Styles Inventory by answering a brief group of questions the way others and you see yourself as you currently are, not as you wish you were. Once you have completed the questions, print your results (Command P). You will need to leave your results visible on your laptop screen as the pie chart may or may not print out in color. Once you have your printout, color in the pie chart (if it did not print) to represent your learning styles according to your results. Turn in the Learning Styles Inventory.

In your journal, identify your primary and secondary learning styles, and research (pp. 197 - 199) what this means. In your journal, write a brief description (2 - 5 sentences or a bulleted list) of identifiers of your learning style.

Use the notebook rubric below to prepare your notebook for evaluation. You will need to score and total you notebook before you turn it in today!



Use the notebook rubric below to prepare your notebook for evaluation. You will need to score and total you notebook before you turn it in today!

NOTE: The last day to turn in your notebook is __**Thur****sday, January 14.**__

=// Thursday (1/14) //= Log in to your Career Cruising account. Under "Assessments" select "Matchmaker." Take the Matchmaker assessment by answering honestly the items about yourself. The more accurate you are in your view of yourself, the more accurate your results will be. Be sure to complete the additional questions when prompted to do so. If you do not finish, you may log out and pick up where you left off later. __**Do not print**__ until you finish tomorrow's portion of the assignment. From your results you will be given a list of careers that may be suitable for youl
 * Portfolio Development Activity #4[[image:kkallasbctal/my skills 2.jpeg align="right"]] **

Note: Answer questions as you really are, not how you wish you were.



Use the notebook rubric below to prepare your notebook for evaluation. You will need to score and total you notebook before you turn it in today!

NOTE: The last day to turn in your notebook is __**Today, Thurs****day, January 14.**__

= // Friday (1/15) // =

Continue to find out more about you.


 * Portfolio Development Activity #5 **

Log in to your Career Cruising account and complete the //**My Skills**// assessment. As with previous assignments, be sure to answer as you really are, not as you wish to be. Be sure to save. Print your results combined with the //**Matchmaker**// portion taken yesterday.

Write a reflection in your journal that answers the following questions. (Be sure to copy the questions.)
 * What do these results tell you?
 * What do they reveal to you about yourself that you find surprising? That you expected?
 * How could these results help you plan your future?

= = =// Monday (1/18) //= = = =** Martin Luther King Day - No school for students **= = = =// Tuesday (1/19) //= = ** Portfolio Development ** = What are your TRUE COLORS? Take the instrument and find out what that might indicate about you. Apply this knowledge and relate it to what you have learned this semester about characteristics needed by educators.

True Colors writing assignment
 * [[image:kkallasbctal/True Colors II.jpeg align="left"]]Portfolio Development **



Group together with others who have the same color as you. As a group, develop a profile that you feel "speaks" to the characteristics exhibited by group members. Report!

= // Wednesday (1/20) and Thursday (1/22) // =

Finish True Colors Reports
Share your group reports that you prepared yesterday with the class.

Complete the journal assignments above.

(Multiple Intelligences)

= // Friday (1/22) // = = Multiple Intelligences =

How are you smart? Where do your intelligences lie?

[|Click here to read and take the assessment.]

Take the assessment to find out how you are smart. Review your results. In your journal, write down all 8 of the Multiple intelligences. Write your scores next to each one.

Turn to p. 201 in the TEACHING textbook. Looking at the characteristics of your multiple intelligences, write a description that is accurate for you, of your top two multiple intelligences. You may also refer to the information provided in the reference section of the link above.

Add your multiple intelligences to the class profile. Only add up to the top 1 - 3 that clearly stood out on your assessment to the chart.

= // Monday (1/25) // =

= Share your profile! = From the exercises you have completed during the previous weeks, create a profile that explains what you are all about. Understanding who we are can help us develop ourselves into the persons we would like to become.

Create a profile that includes the information listed below. You may use MS Word or Pages. Your name (first and last) should stand out: Section 1: True Colors Profile (Color + some highlights) Section 2: Learning Styles Profile (type of learner you are) Section 3: Learning Preferences (From handout with pictures) Section 4: Hemisphericity (Global or Analytical + a few highlights) Section 5: How will this knowledge make you a better student? Section 6: How will this knowledge make you a better __(fill in the blank with your career)__?

Include graphics to enhance your profile. Be sure that they support the information you are trying to share. Helpful hint: Drag pics to desktop and then drag to word document. = = = // Monday (1/26) // =

// TEST on things things that help you learn best: learning styles, preferences, intelligences, hemisphericity,True Colors, and strategies. //