Welcome to my Classroom Practices portfolio. This page features a selection of my teaching materials and classroom practices that highlight my approach to digital literacy, inclusive instruction, and student engagement. These examples reflect my work teaching ESL learners in China, supporting neurodiverse students, and aligning instruction with 21st-century skills.
Here you’ll find lesson plans that bring my teaching philosophy into practice. Each plan highlights inclusive strategies, literacy integration, and the use of digital tools to make learning accessible, engaging, and student-centered.
Building Vocabulary Through Storytelling
Lesson Plan • Literacy / ESL Focus
Exploring Fractions with Visual Models
Lesson Plan • Math / Visual Learning
Writing with Voice: Personal Narratives
Lesson Plan • Writing / Student Voice
Cultures Around the World
Lesson Plan • Social Studies / Project-Based Learning
These samples showcase the creativity and progress of my students. They reflect how inclusive instruction, differentiated supports, and authentic projects empower learners to demonstrate understanding in meaningful ways.
Creative Writing Portfolio
Student Work • Writing Fluency / Vocabulary Growth
Math in Action Project
Student Work • Problem-Solving / Fractions
Reading Response Journals
Student Work • Literacy / Reflective Thinking
Group Presentation on Ecosystems
Student Work • Science / Collaboration
To support accessibility and engagement, I regularly use these tools in my instruction, which are also featured in my EdTech Toolbox:
Wordwall.net – Game-based content review
Canva for Educators – Visuals for class routines, posters, student projects
MS PowerPoint + Video Snippets – Mixed-media presentations for story-based dictation lessons
Text-to-Image AI (DALL·E) – To support students with visual storytelling and sentence structure practice
Classroom practice is where philosophy meets reality. Each lesson, tool, and student success shown here reflects my belief that learning should be inclusive, engaging, and future-ready. These examples are only a glimpse of the work in progress — because teaching is never finished, it’s always evolving.