Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Casey Olson
Within the chart below select at least one ESA from your Content-specific Methods and one component
of the Mini-edTPA from Pre-student Teaching courses that provide evidence of your understanding
about the standard. Please indicate which of the KSDs you have linked under each of the WSTDL.
Briefly describe how the course ESA and components of the Mini-edTPA
portfolio helped you gain a deeper understanding of the WSTDL and the UWWSTDL and UWPlatteville KSDs
Platteville KSDs you selected. (all 22 KSDs need to be mentioned within one
of the ten WSTDL alignments)
WSTDL 1
I believe that all the assignments that I have completed in my upper level years
Content Pedagogy
at UW-Platteville will be able to show my competency and excellence in
content pedagogy. A few examples that I will use to demonstrate competence
in standard one will be my Praxis II scores for Physical Education and Health
Education, and also my disability presentation that I completed in my Adapted
Practicum class. I believe that my Praxis II scores show that I have the ability
to comprehend and understand the content that I have been learning over the
course of my time at UW-Platteville. It will help me be able to teach my
students the central ideas involving physical education and health education.
It also shows that I am competent with the knowledge that I need to start my
student teaching and move one to become a physical education and health
education future educator. For my Adapted Practicum class we were told to
make a presentation on a disability. I chose Down Syndrome. I had to include
cognitive, psychomotor and affective factors with the disability. I also gave
different websites and media resources for people looking up information
about Down Syndrome. This show that I am able to use resources and
demonstrate the knowledge that I collect on different disabilities. It is
important to understand that student with disabilities many have a wide range
of disabilities. Being able to effectively go on and research these different
aspects associated with Down Syndrome shows that I have the power and
information to help aid my future students with special need to learn the best
way possible.
UW-Platteville KSD
I believe that I show proficiency with KSD 1.a, which states demonstrates
Alignments:
knowledge of content and pedagogy. I believe that I was successful in the
1.a, 1.c., 1.e
demonstration of my knowledge in physical and health education by receiving
3.c
passing scores on both of the Praxis II tests. I will continue to use the
knowledge that I have accumulated over the years attending UW-Platteville. I
will be able to implement it into my own classroom and be effective in my
future teachings. I also believe I will be able to use the resources that I did to
create my disability presentation in my future classroom as well. I showed
that I could create a site of information on a specific disability. I believe that it
shows that I understand my content when dealing with adapted physical
education students.
WSTDL 2
I believe that I was able to show competency with standard two with the
Developmental Levels
creation of several different lesson presentations during my student teaching
experience. I created a unit on the Skeletal System and taught it to my 6 th
grade students. I developed lesson presentations that contained a sequential
order which allowed students to learn, grow, and develop. I was able to
deliver the content to the students and they were able to follow and
understand. Each lesson presentation built off of the previous lesson taking
Using the notes or reflections you have already made to help you recall the assignment, write a paragraph
about how your understanding of the standard and the UW-Platteville KSDs are supported by the
completion of ESAs and the Mini-edTPA.
UW-Platteville KSD
Alignments:
1.b, 1.d, 1.e
2e.
3a.- 3.e
WSTDL 5
Classroom
Management
I believe that I show competency with standard five by using two different
instructional strategies, one was an Above the Influence Project, while the other
was a presentation on Second Hand Smoke. While doing both the project and the
presentation I was able to use technology to deliver the information to the
students. The project was assigned to give the students the opportunity to
explore self-discovery. Time was planned out so the students could research and
gather information. After researching and gathering information, the students
were required to create a newspaper with their findings. When they completed
their newspapers they were required to present their findings to the rest of the
class. This gave the students the opportunity to seek out the information and
deliver it. When introducing the Second Hand Smoke presentation, I the
educator, delivered the information to the students. I was lecturing while
students were completing notes. Using the project and the presentation together
provided the students with variety and allowed me the opportunity to differentiate
the delivery of my material.
I believe that I show proficiency with KSD 1.e, which states designs coherent
instruction. I also believe that I show proficiency with KSD 3.e, which states
demonstrates flexibility and responsiveness. I exposed students to two different
instructional strategies which increased coherency on the content that was being
covered. Using two different strategies shows that I am able to be flexible with
the delivery methods I use in the classroom. Using multiple strategies to target
the different learning styles in my students increased coherency in the classroom.
Being responsive to my students different learning styles increased each
students understanding of the content. A mixture of strategies helped to promote
and encourage my students to have success.
I believe that I show competency with standard five by making two different
classroom management plans. I created a classroom management plan for the
elementary physical education classroom and I also made one for a high school
health education classroom. In both of my classroom management plans I
discuss the importance of how I create a safe and comfortable learning
environment for my students. I discuss that if my students do not feel safe they
will not learn. They both include different learning styles that I will use within
my classroom. They both talk about rules and the expectations that I have for all
of my classes. I believe that by completing these classroom management plans it
will allow me to use them in the classroom when I student teach and be able to
adjust them to fit the need of my future students.
Using the notes or reflections you have already made to help you recall the assignment, write a paragraph
about how your understanding of the standard and the UW-Platteville KSDs are supported by the
completion of ESAs and the Mini-edTPA.
Using the notes or reflections you have already made to help you recall the assignment, write a paragraph
about how your understanding of the standard and the UW-Platteville KSDs are supported by the
completion of ESAs and the Mini-edTPA.