Name of BT3:______
School:______
Due Date: Friday, May 5, 2017
BT3 Final Reflection
- Describe a lesson or unit you have taught in which you used a strategy that required students to demonstrate
what they had learned in a different way other than a typical test or open class discussion.
2. Describe your classroom, identifying the following characteristics of an effective environment:
(a) the physical arrangement facilitates engaging students in productive tasks
(b) student expectations for behavior are clearly established
(c) students work collaboratively and independently
(d) the atmosphere is pleasing and inviting
- Describe specific actions that you have taken to teach your students to apply or relate concepts of one content
area to other content areas in meaningful ways.
- Describe ways that you have sought to organize the content you teach in a meaningful way to make it accessible
and easy for students to learn.
- Describe ways that you have worked with other members of your department, grade level, or team to plan
meaningful learning activities for students. Describe some of the resulting activities.
6. Describe in detail ways that you have communicated effectively with parents.
- Describe a situation from your teaching experience that required you to re-teach a concept. What was the
result?
8. How has your classroom management plan evolved over your three years of teaching? What changes have
you made and how would you rate yourself as a classroom manager now as opposed to the first year you
taught?
9. Explain specific ways that you feel you have made contributions to your total school environment.
10. Describe one outstanding professional development experience that you have had in your three years of
teaching:
(a) What was the experience....workshop, conference, school staff development, etc.?
(b) What did you gain from it as a teacher that makes you single that experience out as the best?
11. Describe specific things that you like about being a teacher.
12. Describe ways that you have established yourself as a role model for your students and for new beginning
teachers.
13. Describe specifically how having a mentor has helped you as a beginning teacher.
14. Do you think you would make an effective mentor yourself in the future? Explain your answer.
15. Explain what you want to continue to work on as a teacher after leaving the beginning teacher program.