Corey Chapman - Portfolio
Whole-Group Lesson:
“Stretching Out a Scene”
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After my students had trouble showing a scene in their fantasy short stories, I designed a PowerPoint to model step-by-step how to stretch out an important scene, using The Lion King as a “text.” This was the introductory lesson to a six-day revision process. Reflected here are many of the strategies I use on a daily basis to engage students, including humor, multimedia, and even just having students come to the front for mini-lessons.
•National Board Certified Teacher
•Exceptional class management skills & structures
•High expectations for and strong rapport with students
•Collaborate regularly across departments & grades and present PD to share best practices
•Skilled at using Workshop Model, student-led discussions, and Project-Based Learning to excite students about reading, writing, and history
•Energetic & passionate
Stretching Out A Scene
Detective Rover Mystery
The Greek Game
Sample activities & Lessons
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Medieval Book Project
The Punctuation Song
Humanities
English Language Arts
Sample Rubrics/Peer-Editing
Museum Scavenger Hunt
Intro to Writer’s Workshop
DVD Yearbook Montage
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At the end of almost every year, I create a DVD yearbook for each of my classes; this is the opening video montage from one of them. It’s a strong representation of the hands-on activities and projects I create*, and how I make the classroom itself a conduit for learning, where students can walk in and immediately know, “This is a place where learning happens.”
(*“Oracle Shells” & “Pyramid-Building” not self-designed; “Little Shop of Horrors” and “PEEC” completely organized by other teachers)
Students who weren't in my class or whose parents didn’t give written approval have had their faces blurred. Because of my recent schools' privacy policies, more current videos are only available upon request.
Small-Group Lesson:
“On Turning Ten”
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In this lesson for our Poetry Unit, students were asked to analyze Billy Collins’ “On Turning Ten” through group dialogue and personal connections, using evidence from the text to back up their assertions. This was the first time students had done extended small-group discussions, but the underlying strategies and structures they learned in their partnerships were very present.
Journalism Jeopardy
Final Exam Review Packets
Great Depression Video Project
(for To Kill a Mockingbird)
(for Lord of the Flies & “The Lottery”)
Essay | Narrative | Project | Essay (HS)
(for Romeo & Juliet)
Intro to Project-Based Learning
The China Game
(introductory trailer)
Class Management Workshop
Street Art Project
Intro to Deep Reading
Writing a Literary Essay
Shared Vision PD
Faculty Escape Room
Survey of US Parental Policies
(Humanities/Science/VA/PE/Spanish)
Poetry Unit
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