NICK MALAKHOW - Student-Teaching Portfolio
Me in Vancouver, BC
I am a recent graduate of Swarthmore College and have spent the past semester student teaching English and Acting at the Westtown Friends School in Westtown, PA. On the following pages you will find a number of resources I've used in teaching including lesson plans, online resources, classroom observations, and self-evaluative analyses.
GENERAL MATERIALS
*General Resume (also downloadable as a Microsoft Word document here)
*A Reflective Essay on a Significant Even in my Student Teaching.
*A Book Review of Robert Marzano's Transforming Classroom Grading (Buy the book at Amazon.com!)
WESTTOWN-SPECIFIC MATERIALS
To view statistics on Westtown and student demographics, see the following page:
CLASSROOM OBSERVATIONS*
Observation of T. Lucy's English 11 Class
Observation of T. Kenneth 's English 9 Class
LEARNER NARRATIVES*
A letter of recommendation for a student to a summer program
An assessment for a student's in-class behavior
Two progress reports on a student's in-class behavior and achievement
*pseudonyms are used in all observations and narratives
SUBJECT-SPECIFIC MATERIALS
ENGLISH:
*a PowerPoint Presentation on Teaching a lesson Sonnet analysis
*What's in a Name? A lesson plan on John Steinbeck's use of names in Of Mice and Men. Get it as a word document here.
*an assignment sheet for a final essay on To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
*an assignment sheet for a final project for the curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon.
*an assignment sheet for a final project for To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
THEATER:
*a three week unit of study on Richard Schechner's Rasaboxes for 9th grade students
*To learn more about Rasaboxes, visit the East Coast Artists' website here.
*Theater Resume (also downloadable as a Microsoft Word document here)
*Production Photos from Swarthmore Productions I've been in