Hannah Moross - EDEL 660

This past week, the students in the 1st grade classroom where I am completing my practicum continued their unit on “Families Near and Far”. The inquiry question of this unit is: How can we bring families together to form stronger communities? Through each module and sub-less, students explore this idea through a different lens to help them further understand the inquiry question of the unit.  This week, we are in module 5 and students explored the question of “ What does diversity bring to our communities? ” Through this module's content, students explore how our differences- in terms of family structures, traditions, cultures, and backgrounds- add value to our communities.  Hence, in the lesson I had the opportunity to teach this week, ‘what diversity brings to our communities’ was the compelling question that we were focusing on to help students further understand the focus of this unit.  To start the lesson, students were shown different types of bread around the worl...

 Hi Everyone!  My name is Hannah Moross and I am earning my masters in elementary education from Regis University! Last year, I served as a student success coach through City Year Denver,  and my experience through that program motivated me to be a teacher. I come from a privileged educational background, and realizing the inequities that exist in our current education system inspired me to pursue a masters in elementary education, so I could best serve my future students.  Throughout this course, there are many things that I hope to gain so I can grow as an educator. I really want to work on identifying standards and creating lesson objectives that match those standards- this will help me teach any subject and a skill that I will hold with me throughout my career as a teacher. Another aspect that I hope to gain from this class is how to create inclusive science and social studies lessons that can meet all students needs, while keeping them engaged in the content. I ...