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Vanessa Gouveia Davies Portfolio
"Wisdom begins with wonder."
- Socrates
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
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Members apply professional knowledge and experience to promote student learning. They use appropriate pedagogy, assessment and evaluation, resources and technology in planning for and responding to the needs of individual students and learning communities. Members refine their professional practice through ongoing inquiry, dialogue and reflection.
 Example Unit PlanMy work on this group’s Overall Organizational Chart has helped me to learn that or see that just how important differentiated instruction, lesson planning, integrated instruction, and backwards mapping is in today’s classrooms. Finding ways to incorporate all students is an extremely important part of a teacher’s role while backward planning. By using the backward planning method, I will be able to individualize my students needs and help them become the best learners they can be. |  Teacher InquiryMy work on this Research Inquiry assignment has helped me to learn that I must continue to learn about new methods of teaching during my practice. By continuing my research, I will be able to support the needs of my students. |  Learning Skill ChartAt Oakridge Public School, in my grade five placement, there are a large number of English Language Learners (ELLs) and one student who has been diagnosed with Fragile X Syndrome and who was in a car accident when he was five and suffered from brain damage. In this unique class, there are several different learning styles. After the progress report was sent home and parent-teacher interviews set, it came to our attention (my placement teacher, Ross Hanna, and I) that the focus of each interview |
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 KidblogI introduced Kidblog, a class blog, where students interact with one another, can post homework, ask for questions, and have in depth discussions on extension topics from class with one another, and have seen a huge difference in the classroom dynamic. Students are more patient with one another, are excited to post and discuss questions and their viewpoints on issues, pose questions and take initiative with their own learning. This has helped the ELL students to use technology and feel comforta |
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