Welcome to Mr. Hall's Class!
Grade 6
About Me
Email: Corey.Hall@gmail.com
Location: Brampton, ON, Canada
Phone: 905-875-3400
Facebook: facebook.com/CoreyHall
Twitter: @Corey_Hall
Who Influences my teaching style?
David H. Rose
David H. Rose is a developmental neuropsychologist and educator who teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Rose is the founder the Universal Design for Learning which is "a curriculum-development framework based on flexible instructional approaches that can be customized and adjusted to address the learning needs of individual students."
OR IN OTHER WORDS...
I will tailor my teaching style to your son or daughter individually :)
Teaching Philosophy
Learning Environment
I like to model the teachings of Jesus Christ in the classroom and act them out in order to influence my students, that being love, compassion, and forgiveness.
A big part of our learning environment is routines, so we start off every class with a reflection because when there is structure in the classroom, it is a safe environment for all. It is important to have an environment
Homework
I am fully aware that after school, students have a number of extra curricular activities and other obligations. As such, I am a firm believer that all learning and work can be completed within the school day. Homework will not be assigned, however, work that is not completed during the school day may be completed at home.
When at home, let your kids be kids :)
Assessment
To improve student learning, I use both "assessment for learning" and "assessment as learning" which incudes strategies such as:
- sharing learning goals and success criteria
- providing feedback in relation to goals
- developing students ability to self-assess
The expectations for each assignment will be very clear because just as important as it is to make a variety of assignments, the expectations have to be clear so that every student knows what they have to do
For every activity, here are specific rubrics that reflects criterion-referenced assessment and evaluation, so that the assessment of student achievement is fair, reliable, and transparent.
Classroom Management
I am serious about education and I have very clear rules and expectations in the classroom. Three aspects that I emphasize in my classroom are: consistency, organization, and mutual respect.
As a class, we will make the class rules on the first day, so that way if a rule is broken, the student can be reminded that we came up wit these rules together and they were agreed upon.
When discipline has to go beyond the classroom, it is important that there are open lines of communication between myself and you as a parent, because we have the same interest in mind, that being the success of your child.
Parental Communication
My Role
My role as a teacher is to ensure that I address all of the diverse learning needs of the class. I create modified tests and I take every student into account when lesson planning. I know there are auditory, tactile, visual, and kinesthetic learners so I always think about how my lesson will implement those.
I do not teach classes, I teach inidividuals :)
I will give feedback to your child beginning with their strengths and then address their areas of need. My goal is to develop their skills so that they can get to a point where they can assess their own learning so that they can see where they need to improve as well.