West Virginia State University

College of Professional Studies

Department of Education
Professional Development (PD) Reflection Outline

Name: Kaylee Dillon Major Content Area:
Elementary Education
Circle one:
FR SOPH JR SR
PD Topic/Title:
Project-Based Instruction and West Virginia History
Through Integrated Instruction
PD Date:
March 29, 2014
PD Units:
9:00 am 1:00 pm

Please respond to the following prompts:
1. Summarize the key points you learned from this Professional Development
experience.
The present believes that Social Studies and Science are content based while Math
and Reading are skill based.
Reading and Math can be integrated into any Social Studies or Science lesson.
Break down CSOs in terms that students will understand
Many technology components, such as Dropbox and Prezi.
Whole-brain teaching/learning techniques

2. Discuss how these key points connect to your content area.
Select desired Social Studies and Science CSOs and then integrate reading and math
activities into them. This will eliminate it from being left out of the classroom. If they
are taught through integrated instruction, there is no need to leave them out of the
classroom and lessons.

3. Share how you might use this new information in your future classroom.
I will use the information learned to carefully plan units of social studies and science
units for my classroom. I will also break down CSOs for my students to see and
understand. I think this is helpful for them to know exactly what is expected for them to
learn.