Goal: Student will write 24 portfolio papers to earn college credit in for Intro to Ed. 

 

Objective:  

 

To prepare students to write 3.2 criterion with at least 38/40 points by the end of at least two drafts.  

 

 3­1   Creating a Climate that Promotes Fairness 

● Differentiates between equity and equality in a climate that promotes fairness 

● Describes a climate and rationale for promoting fairness ● Illustrates how fairness can be actively encouraged  

 3­2   Establishing and Maintaining Rapport with Students 

● Describes the importance of establishing and maintaining rapport in the classroom 

● Illustrates various methods of establishing and maintaining rapport that are appropriate to all learners 

 3­3   Communicating Challenging Learning Expectations to Each Student 

● Explains the importance of an environment in which challenging learning expectations are communicated 

● Describes how teachers show through words, actions and attitudes that each student is capable of meaningful achievement 

3­4   Establishing and Maintaining Consistent Standards of Classroom Behavior 

● Explains the importance of effective classroom management techniques 

● Identifies examples of developmentally­appropriate classroom management techniques 

● Describes how to consistently and successfully maintain an environment where classroom behavior is appropriate 

3­5   Making the Physical Environment as Safe and Conducive to Learning as Possible 

● Identifies ways to make the environment physically and emotionally safe and conducive to learning 

● Describes how to use the environment as a resource that accommodates all learners 

● Explains health and safety issues associated with the use of technology in the classroom 

 

 

 

 

Content Standards Covered: 

 

Competency 3.1:   Write and utilize coherent and focused communications that support a defined perspective. Descriptors:   3.1.1        Use various note­taking techniques to summarize main ideas. 3.1.2        Structure ideas and arguments in an organized manner, supported by relevant documentation and/or examples. 3.1.3        Write messages using language that is appropriate for the intended audience and purpose. 3.1.4        Use correct spelling, grammar, capitalization and punctuation.     3.1.5        Identify positions from relevant research and resources.  

Competency 3.5:   Apply research strategies to investigate issues, topics and problems. Descriptors: 3.5.1         Locate, select and utilize relevant information from a variety of sources.   Competency 14.2:  Treat all students fairly and establish an environment that is respectful, supportive and caring

 Descriptors: 14.2.1  Demonstrate caring and respect through interactions with all students. 14.2.2  Teach expectations for respectful interactions among students. 14.2.3  Use strategies to promote positive relationships, cooperation and collaboration. 14.2.4  Create classrooms in which students demonstrate caring and respect for one another. 14.2.5  Seek out and be receptive to the thoughts and opinions of all students.         

 Day One 

 

● Students create a two­column table on their iPads using Pages. 

● Read the criterion we will be writing about to identify any vocabulary words that they may not understand or be able to use 

in context of the prompt. 

● First section of the table is Vocabulary 

○ Each student’s table will look different depending on the number of vocabulary words needed to define. 

● Second Section of the table is Bullet One: 

○ Students write the prompt  

■ Student writes the question he will be addressing? 

■ Student writes a topic sentence. 

■ Class determines a reasonable number of statements that address the question and leave room for 2 or 3 

■ Creates rows for examples 

■ Create row for concluding sentence.  (if needed) 

■ Creates a space for terms to put in search engines for research (if student needs help with this task) 

● Third section is Bullet Two: 

○ Students repeat for each bullet in the criterion. 

● Note: Many of the table look similar but they only put in the rows they need in order to write the paper. 

 

 

 

● Upon completion of the chart, students begin to research on their own. Finding the information is self­directed.  Students 

must read and determine the information that addresses the question they are answering. 

● I will write the question on the board and as they find answers to their questions, they write the answer on a post it and 

place on the board under the correct bullet. 

● Students can read each other’s post its, ask questions, move post its if necessary. (formative assessment) 

 

 

● I will facilitate a class discussion to have students think of examples of how various teachers they have experienced or 

observed have practiced some of the techniques that researched.  (formative assessment) 

 

Due in 2 days: 

 

For homework they will complete their charts on their own and turn in on Google Classroom.  I then give them feedback on their 

charts as to accuracy of information.  (formative assessment) 

 

Due in 3 more days:  

 

They have write their first draft and turn in on Google Classroom.  I use the Junior Portfolio Rubric to grade their first draft. (still 

formative assessment) 

Note:  Their drafts are color coded to signify what kind of error was made. See color chart at bottom of the rubric. It is up to them to figure out the error, ask a classmate or me if they do not recognize what went wrong. 

 

Due one week later:  

 

One week later second draft is due.  I grade their paper using both my rubric and the state rubric. (summative assessment).  If they 

do not receive at least a 38, they may rewrite as many times as necessary to achieve 38, if they wish.  (Many times they do not 

wish to revise, but can if they wish. 

 

 

Portfolio Writing Rubric­Jrs.   

  Got it! 5  Almost there! (4)  Not Yet! (3)  MIA (0)  Score/Level 

Content Are my ideas, examples, and

details clear?

(20 points)  

This paper is clear and focused.

Relevant examples and details enrich

the central idea, and showcase the

writer’s knowledge.

X4 

The writer has sufficiently

defined the topic and

supports it with details or

examples. The reader has

a good understanding of

the writer’s intent. X4 

The writer has defined the

topic in a way that shows

inconsistencies. Some

arguments are weak,

illogical, or unconvincing.

X4 

The paper lacks a sense

of clear purpose or

central theme with

sketchy or missing

details.

X4 

  

Format (5 points)  Paper included:

Criterion written out

1” margins

Double spaced

Times New Roman 12 pt  

One point will be deducted

for each missing element         

Word Choice Did I use vocabulary that

enhances my ideas, and that

show my understanding of this

subject?

(5 points)  

Rich language is used in an engaging

and natural way, demonstrating a

strong familiarity with the subject

matter and its vocabulary.  

The paper uses

appropriate, relevant

language that is functional

and clear. The writer uses

language related to the

subject.  

The words do not engage

the reader and at times

are inaccurate or cause

distraction. Vocabulary

related to the content is

sometimes used.  

Words are so

nonspecific or

inaccurate that only a

limited meaning comes

through. The writer

uses little to no

vocabulary related to

the subject.  

  

Sentence Fluency

Do I vary my sentences in a way

that helps my reader understand

my ideas?

(5 points)  

Purposeful variation in sentence

structure and length enhances the

meaning and allows for fluent oral

reading. Sentences are well

constructed.  

Sentences are constructed

correctly and show some

variation in length and

structure.  

Sentence structure has

little to no variation,

causing the reader to lose

focus. Errors in sentence

structure are evident.  

Many errors in sentence

structure make reading

difficult. The reader

gets lost trying to

determine where

thoughts start and

stop.  

  

Conventions

Did I use correct spelling,

grammar & punctuation so that

the reader is not confused? (5

points) 

The writer has a strong command of

language conventions. Very few

errors are evident, and do not affect

readability.  

The paper has occasional

errors in language

conventions. Some editing

is required.  

Noticeable errors in

language conventions

detract from the reader’s

ability to understand the

meaning of the text.

Editing for errors is a

priority.  

Errors in language

conventions repeatedly

frustrate the reader and

make the text difficult

to read.  

  

Timeliness

 4 points will be deducted for each day paper is late 

Paper will not be accepted until Content scores 4 or 5! 

Pink­spelling errors Blue­grammar errors Green­fluency error­reword Yellow­poor word choice Gray­redundant­omit Red­does not address prompt, remove from paper 

  Paper must be redone if

any area falls in this

column.   

 

 

3.2 Establishing and Maintaining Rapport with Students

Vocabulary

Rapport Knowing your students and having a good relationship with them.

Establishing Starting

Maintaining Keeping

Bullet 1 Describes the importance of establishing and maintaining rapport in the classroom. - Why is it important?

Topic Sentence It is very important for teachers to establish and maintain rapport in their classrooms.

Key Point Students are more likely to understand content if rapport is established.

Example "You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with" (Mike White). This demonstrates that a student will be more willing to work with a teacher that they like and have a positive relationship with.

Key Point Students will be proactive, enjoy the class, and not be afraid to ask questions

Example

Concluding Sentence Establishing rapport with students is essential for a teachers success within the classroom.

Bullet 2 Illustrates various methods of establishing and maintaining rapport that are appropriate to all learners. - How do you establish and maintain rapport?

Topic Sentence - Establishing

There are various methods used to establish rapport with your students.

Example Ask students about themselves, learn about themInterest, hobbies, aspirations

Example Greet your students as they enter the classroom

Concluding Sentence By using these methods to establish rapport, students will feel more comfortable in the classroom.

Topic Sentence - Maintaining

Though it is essential to have different methods to establish rapport with students, teachers must also maintain those relationships.

Example Be respectful and humble to your students

Example Be supportive, show that you care, take interest in their activities outside the classroom

Concluding Sentence Maintain rapport with students shows students that their teacher still cares about them and thinks about them consistently.

3.1 Rapport

Vocabulary Vocabulary for 3.1

Rapport Having a good relationship between teachers and students

Establishment Starting rapport

Maintaining Keeping the rapport

Bullet one Why is rapport important

Topic sentance rapport important because students learn best in a comfortable environment and with a good relationship with the teacher.

Key point Rapport is important so students feel comfortable in the classroom and will be more outgoing and likely to ask questions.

Example 1 Backs up key point

Example 2 Backs up key point

Bullet two How do you establish and maintain rapport? (May be broken up)

Example 1 A Establish

Example 2 A Establish

Example 1 B Maintain

Example 2 B Maintain

Things to search A Bullet one

3.1

One Importance of rapport in classroom

Two Importance of teacher-student rapport

Three Reasons for teacher rapport

Things to search B Bullet two

One Ways teachers build rapport

Two Ways teachers maintain rapport

Rapport3.1

3.2 Establishing and Maintaing Rapport with Students

Vocabulary Definition

Rapport Having a good relationship between teachers and students

Establishing Starting with rapport

Maintaining Keeping rapport

Bullet One

Why is rapport important?

Topic Sentence Rapport is important while establishing and maintaing rapport in the classroom.

Key point: (Answers the question)

Rapport is important because it makes the students happier and more excited to learn.

Example 1: Rapport between a teacher and student can help the student be relaxed.

Example 2: Rapport between a teacher and student can help create a positive learning atmosphere.

Key search words: -Importance of rapport in the classroom -Teacher to student rapports -Reasons for teacher rapport

Bullet Two

How do you establish rapport? How do you maintain rapport?

Topic Sentence Establishing and maintaining rapport in the classroom are two different things.

Example 1a: Establishing rapport in the classroom could be explaining your course policies so they know what is expected of themselves.

Example 1b: Establishing rapport in the classroom could be learning your students hobbies and interests.

Example 2a: Maintaining rapport in the classroom could be always calling your students by their names.

Example 2b: Maintaining rapport in the classroom could be always arriving to class early and staying late, in case a student needs help in an educational way or personal way.

Key search words: -Establishing rapport in the classroom -Rapport building activities -Ways to maintain rapport in the classroom

3.2 Establishing and Maintaing Rapport With Students

• Rapport is important when it comes to establishing and maintaing it in the classroom. Rapport

is important because it makes the students happier and more excited to learn. Having a strong

sense of rapport between a teacher and her students, is a way to comfortableness in the

classroom, for both the teacher and the students. It is important to establish and maintain

rapport is having a good relationship between a teacher and her students can calm the students

down, which urges them more to work more efficiently. For example, Mrs. Polen always has

the lights off, blinds open, and music silently playing in the back round. She tries to make the

classroom as comfortable and homelike as possible, that way her students are happy to be in

class, are calm, and relaxed. It is also important to have rapport established and maintained in

the classroom because rapport creates a positive learning atmosphere for students. When a

student is relaxed and not stressed, the brain is calm and it can take in more information. He

teacher should make the room as relaxed as possible, this way the students will be able to take

in more information and remember it.

• Establishing and maintaining rapport in the classroom are two different things. Establishing

rapport in the classroom is starting with rapport. Establishing it could be a teacher explaining

course policies so that the students know what is expected of themselves. When students know

what is exactly going to go on during the school year in the teachers class, it makes it easier

on the student to participate during the class when they know what they are doing.

Establishing rapport in the classroom could also be learning the students hobbies and interests.

Getting to know the students makes it easier to interpret lessons to things that the students

like. For example, Mrs. Kindle knew that her students liked to be creative and do crafts. She

made her project a type of creative craft for the class to complete. All of her students turned in

the project on time and the students all put a lot of effort into their projects and all excelled on

the grading portion of the project. Maintaing rapport in the classroom is keeping rapport

constant in the classroom. It could be always calling your students by their names. For

example, Mr. Libeg stands at his door everyday and shakes hands with everyone of his

students and calls them by their names. Another way could be always arriving to class early

and staying late, in case a student needs help in an educational way or personal way. For

example, Ms. Krivosh is always at school early and she also stays a bit late, just in case a

student needs help, whether it be educational help or personal help.

Content____ Format_____

Word Ch._____ Sent. Flu._____

Conventions_____

Total_________

On Time____ Late______

3.2 - Establishing and Maintaining Rapport with Students

• It is extremely important for teachers to establish and maintain rapport with their students. If a

teacher establishes rapport, their students will be more likely to understand content and willing

to learn. According to a quote said by Mike White, "You want to work with people who you like

and have an easy rapport with" (White). His demonstrates that a student will be more willing to

work with a teacher that they like and have a positive relationship with. Also, students will be

proactive, enjoy the class, and not be afraid to ask questions. By feeling more comfortable in

the classroom, students will take more risks academically. Establishing rapport with students

is essential for a teachers success within the classroom.

• There are various methods used for a teacher to establish rapport with her students. For

example, teachers can ask their students about themselves and learn about their interests,

hobbies, and aspirations. By doing so, the teacher is showing the students that they care.

Another method would be for teachers to greet their students in a positive way as they enter

the classroom. If a teacher begins the day on a positive note, she will set the tone for the

entire day and make the students feel positive about the day. By using these methods to

establish rapport, students will feel more comfortable in the classroom. Though it is essential

to have different methods to establish rapport with students, teachers must also have methods

to maintain those relationships. One way to maintain the relationships would be for a teacher

to be respectful to her students. If a teacher treats her students with respect, they do the same

in return. In addition, teachers can take interest in the activities their students participate in

outside of the classroom to maintain rapport. If a teacher does this, she will make the students

to feel as though they are important to her not only within the classroom, but outside of the

classroom as well. Maintaining a positive relationship with students shows them that they are

still important to the teacher and that the teacher still cares about them.

Content Format Word Ch Sent. Flu. Conventions

Total

On time Late ____

3.2­  Establishing and Maintaining Rapport with Students 

 

● Rapport is one important factor to have in the classroom. Rapport is the positive  

 

relationship between the students and the teacher in the classroom. One reason why it is  

 

important to keep rapport in the classroom is that it can help manage your classroom better. One  

 

example of why this fact is important is that it will help keep trust in the classroom. A student  

 

doesn’t want to go into a classroom with a teacher he/she does not trust. If the teacher can win  

 

the trust of her student in the classroom, then the students will be more comfortable around her,  

 

then the students will be behaved, and more rapport is built. Another example is that the students  

 

may have higher motivation in the classroom. If a student doesn’t have motivation in the  

 

classroom, that will lead the student to be bored or not do any work. That leads to trouble,  

 

everybody knows that. But if the students can connect with the teacher in any sort of way, then  

 

that will make that student stride to do better in that class.  

 

● Establishing and maintaining rapport in the classroom are two totally different scenarios.  

 

Establishing rapport in the classroom is the foundation of the rapport in a teacher’s classroom.  

 

One way to establish rapport is by remembering the students names. Remembering students  

 

names gives the students a personal satisfaction that will start a foundation. Another way of  

 

establishing rapport is to connect with students on appropriate personal matters. A teacher could  

 

maybe make a “quiz” about their hobbies, favorite kinds of music, foods, TV shows and so on.  

 

The teacher can relate to the students that way and form rapport through that. Maintaining  

 

rapport in the classroom is how you steadily keep rapport going in the classroom. One way to  

maintain rapport in the classroom is to have a suggestion box in the classroom. If the students  

 

feel they can voice their opinion [anonymously], then they feel like they are all part of the class,  

 

which helps build rapport with all the students instead of just a few. ANother example is to move  

 

around in the classroom. A teacher shouldn’t stand in one place and lecture the whole period, the  

 

students will get bored. Move around the classroom, around and in between desks, and move  

 

from the front of the room, to the back, to the front, and so on and so on. Stay mobile! 

 

 

 

Portfolio Score Box 

Content (x4)­____ 

Format­____ 

Word Choice­____ 

Sentence Fluency­____  

Conventions­____  

Total­____ 

On time­____  

Late­____ 

Score­____   

 

3.2 Establishing and Maintaing Rapport With Students

• Rapport is important when it comes to establishing and maintaing it in the classroom. Rapport

is important because it makes the students happier and more excited to learn. Having a strong

sense of rapport between a teacher and her students, is a way to comfortableness in the

classroom, for both the teacher and the students. It is important to establish and maintain

rapport is having a good relationship between a teacher and her students can calm the students

down, which urges them more to work more efficiently. For example, Mrs. Polen always has

the lights off, blinds open, and music silently playing in the back round. She tries to make the

classroom as comfortable and homelike as possible, that way her students are happy to be in

class, are calm, and relaxed. It is also important to have rapport established and maintained in

the classroom because rapport creates a positive learning atmosphere for students. When a

student is relaxed and not stressed, the brain is calm and it can take in more information. He

teacher should make the room as relaxed as possible, this way the students will be able to take

in more information and remember it.

• Establishing and maintaining rapport in the classroom are two different things. Establishing

rapport in the classroom is starting with rapport. Establishing it could be a teacher explaining

course policies so that the students know what is expected of themselves. When students know

what is exactly going to go on during the school year in the teachers class, it makes it easier

on the student to participate during the class when they know what they are doing.

Establishing rapport in the classroom could also be learning the students hobbies and interests.

Getting to know the students makes it easier to interpret lessons to things that the students

like. For example, Mrs. Kindle knew that her students liked to be creative and do crafts. She

made her project a type of creative craft for the class to complete. All of her students turned in

the project on time and the students all put a lot of effort into their projects and all excelled on

the grading portion of the project. Maintaing rapport in the classroom is keeping rapport

constant in the classroom. It could be always calling your students by their names. For

example, Mr. Libeg stands at his door everyday and shakes hands with everyone of his

students and calls them by their names. Another way could be always arriving to class early

and staying late, in case a student needs help in an educational way or personal way. For

example, Ms. Krivosh is always at school early and she also stays a bit late, just in case a

student needs help, whether it be educational help or personal help.

Content____ Format_____

Word Ch._____ Sent. Flu._____

Conventions_____

Total_________

On Time____ Late______