Implementing School-wide Initiatives to Enhance Teaching & Learning

Including entry tasks, agendas and unit vocabulary as components to every lesson

Artifact Justification

Along with the rest of the high school teachers, at the beginning of my student teaching, I was tasked with implementing daily entry tasks as a part of my lessons. Luckily for me, I had already been planning on utilizing this practical method of settling in the class and providing some order to begin from. About mid-way through my student teaching, as a school we added vocabulary as key elements to each lesson. This time I needed to increase the frequency I was explicitly teaching vocab, but because I maintained a predictable rhythm to the class period, it was simple to layer in a new step.

This evolving practice of daily routines and providing predictability to students exemplifies the standard Planning for Instruction by showcasing one of my systems. Entry task slides are something I maintain for every class and try to get creative with, while keeping things consistent. This is a gallery of some of my favorite slides.