About Me
Welcome to my teaching portfolio! My name is Meagan Flodeen, I am currently finishing up my fourth and final year as a student at the University of Florida. I am currently finishing my degree in Biology and will also be graduating with a minor from the UFTeach Science Edcuation Program. My plan upon graduation is to become a secondary science teacher in the state of Florida. Previously my field experience has given me practice with the following subjects: middle school physical science, chemistry, and marine science. However in addition to those subjects I would also enjoy having the opportunity to teach subjects such as: Life Science, Anatomy/Physiology, and Biology. Attached directly below is a copy of my resume.
Welcome to my teaching portfolio! My name is Meagan Flodeen, I am currently finishing up my fourth and final year as a student at the University of Florida. I am currently finishing my degree in Biology and will also be graduating with a minor from the UFTeach Science Edcuation Program. My plan upon graduation is to become a secondary science teacher in the state of Florida. Previously my field experience has given me practice with the following subjects: middle school physical science, chemistry, and marine science. However in addition to those subjects I would also enjoy having the opportunity to teach subjects such as: Life Science, Anatomy/Physiology, and Biology. Attached directly below is a copy of my resume.
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Some of my teaching philosophies:
First of all, I am a firm believer in the notion that any student can learn and be effective in the classroom. This is where I believe that differentiated instruction is very important across all grade levels and skill abilities in the education system. However to be able to differentiate instruction my understanding is that I must be fully aware of the different learning styles that my students find most effective and also the understanding of each individual's need in my classroom.
Technology is a huge component in my classroom thus far with usage in a multitude of ways with the first being stimulating learners’ interest with VIPS (Visual Instructional Plans) through projection of various diagrams, simulations, and presentations. In addition I promote use of laptops, tablets, and etc. for student inquiry/investigative work pertaining to various new discoveries in science as well as resource accumulation for project based learning. For my chemistry classes past laboratory investigations students have been able to use scientific probes such as a pH indicator wand connected to the computer to graph the log of the pH results for their chemical solutions. In additions in each of my classes the students become vary accustomed to database use both for journals as well as chemical elements, species identification, etc. As far as my personal technological capabilities: I am very accustomed to using word processing for lesson plans/tests/etc, I feel comfortable creating web pages with my own webpage available with the listed link on my resume, power point software such as Microsoft, Prezi, and other up in coming systems, student response systems I am also a very big advocate of, and I also feel extremely confident with using the internet/creating & using spreadsheets/using electronic gradebooks/frequently responding to email/other instructional software.
Although, I will be a recent graduate of the University of Florida's UFTeach for STEM education program, I believe that I have seen and used many great educational practices that I hope to implement in my future classroom. I strongly believe in the practice of integrating course curriculum across subjects with preference to mathematics integration but also reinforcing learned practices from English/Language Arts, Social Sciences, and others. I think an integrated learning approach is what will help develop the student’s further understanding of the aimed learning objectives for that curriculum. In my marine science classroom currently although our heavy focus is on learning marine invertebrate animals, I also am aiming to develop their collaboration skills through many group activities such as their marine tank projects. Also in that project they will be responsible for conducting their own research questions which serves to build their innovative, problem solving, and informed literacy skills that are all needed to formulate a hypothesis as well as conduct the needed following experiments. Lastly the students will be completing a PSA project in the near future which will hopefully build on their current communication skills in addition to adding to their responsible citizenship skills. As you can probably have noticed all the skills that my students are working on in addition to the curriculum not only require the use of other subjects but are also considered to be "Six Critical Skills for 21st Century Success". With so many new and challenging courses being offered at the secondary education level I believe it is important to challenge the students in multiple ways so that when they leave my classroom they not only trained science experts able to achieve excellent assessment scores, but also more comfortable curriculum learned in their other subjects. It is my mission to instill a lifelong learner approach in all my students in the field of science.
First of all, I am a firm believer in the notion that any student can learn and be effective in the classroom. This is where I believe that differentiated instruction is very important across all grade levels and skill abilities in the education system. However to be able to differentiate instruction my understanding is that I must be fully aware of the different learning styles that my students find most effective and also the understanding of each individual's need in my classroom.
Technology is a huge component in my classroom thus far with usage in a multitude of ways with the first being stimulating learners’ interest with VIPS (Visual Instructional Plans) through projection of various diagrams, simulations, and presentations. In addition I promote use of laptops, tablets, and etc. for student inquiry/investigative work pertaining to various new discoveries in science as well as resource accumulation for project based learning. For my chemistry classes past laboratory investigations students have been able to use scientific probes such as a pH indicator wand connected to the computer to graph the log of the pH results for their chemical solutions. In additions in each of my classes the students become vary accustomed to database use both for journals as well as chemical elements, species identification, etc. As far as my personal technological capabilities: I am very accustomed to using word processing for lesson plans/tests/etc, I feel comfortable creating web pages with my own webpage available with the listed link on my resume, power point software such as Microsoft, Prezi, and other up in coming systems, student response systems I am also a very big advocate of, and I also feel extremely confident with using the internet/creating & using spreadsheets/using electronic gradebooks/frequently responding to email/other instructional software.
Although, I will be a recent graduate of the University of Florida's UFTeach for STEM education program, I believe that I have seen and used many great educational practices that I hope to implement in my future classroom. I strongly believe in the practice of integrating course curriculum across subjects with preference to mathematics integration but also reinforcing learned practices from English/Language Arts, Social Sciences, and others. I think an integrated learning approach is what will help develop the student’s further understanding of the aimed learning objectives for that curriculum. In my marine science classroom currently although our heavy focus is on learning marine invertebrate animals, I also am aiming to develop their collaboration skills through many group activities such as their marine tank projects. Also in that project they will be responsible for conducting their own research questions which serves to build their innovative, problem solving, and informed literacy skills that are all needed to formulate a hypothesis as well as conduct the needed following experiments. Lastly the students will be completing a PSA project in the near future which will hopefully build on their current communication skills in addition to adding to their responsible citizenship skills. As you can probably have noticed all the skills that my students are working on in addition to the curriculum not only require the use of other subjects but are also considered to be "Six Critical Skills for 21st Century Success". With so many new and challenging courses being offered at the secondary education level I believe it is important to challenge the students in multiple ways so that when they leave my classroom they not only trained science experts able to achieve excellent assessment scores, but also more comfortable curriculum learned in their other subjects. It is my mission to instill a lifelong learner approach in all my students in the field of science.