devon+morrill

Welcom e!!

My name is Devon Morrill and I am currently teaching math and science at Shelburne Community School! I will be heading into my second year of teaching this fall, and I feel so blessed to be able to continue doing what I love in a school system that is incredibly supportive. This summer is and will continue to be insane for me as I am taking three classes, learning new math curriculum, teaching summer school, and ushering my two best friends through wedding craziness! Most importantly however, I am aiming to complete my thesis enititled //Communicating Concretely: Learning to teach students with Asperger's// and defend at the tail end of August!! Below are some images left over from my first career as a Marine Biologist. After chasing my sea turtle obsession around the ocean for a few years I taught preschool at a local daycare and then applied to the UVM middle level MAT program in 2007. I student taught in Williston on the Voyager team and then was lucky enough to land a position in Shelburne. Teaching students was the common thread that united my two previous lives/careers and it didn't matter whether it was about sea life or potty training all that mattered was that I wound up working with and learning alongside children.  Me and Kekaimalu - The world's only wholphin & Snorkeling of the coast of Oahu & Our pets - Aquilla (the fickle persian) and Dora (the amazingly speedy) box turtle. Leatherback Turtle Research Position - Grenada West Indies & Green Sea Turtle Internship Oahu Hawaii & My husband Keith and I

Below please find the link to our team page last year - we dabbled in a bunch of things but you can see postings from our team poetry slam, claymation videos we created in science, a game one of my students made for the nutrition unit as well as a ton of pictures. If you are wondering why I don't have this years team site up and running yet it is becasue we were reconfigured for this coming year so the new pages have not yet been created. Also there is a link to our team wiki on the team page feel free to take a peek!

[|Delta Team Homepage]


 * __Project Ideas Generated Over Lunch!__**

Create a multi-purpose wiki together with my student who has AS for the purposes of concretizing and recording his assignments, behaviors, progress with social thinking curriculum and reflection.This project is all about returning control to the learner. Technology is his natural talent and providing him with the foundation to create a site that he can make his will not only help him to own his learning but it will give him back the control he had previously lost. This student has extreme anxiety and feelings of paranoia in relation to authority figures and fears that he is never truly heard. By acknowledging the emotion and moving forward in a manner that controls I am hoping he feels a return of his own voice. The expected change in behavior for him will hopefully include increased feelings of security, ownership/accountability and control. For me the change in behavior will appear in the form of relinquishing control, encouraging natural talents, understanding existing networks, and truly encouraging deeper learning in the sequence of experience, reflection, abstratcion, and active testing. Teaching him to become more abstract and to learn to generalize across a variety of situations will be vital to his success as an adult as he does not easily understand social thinking.

Technology Ideas to bring back to the classroom!!

Use voice thread for Math!!!!!! Use Voki for Math and as an intro activity at the start of September.

Hey Devon, it's Gretchen. I have to teach a math lesson Thursday am for an interview! Do you have any favorite websites for lesson ideas? Thank you Thank you!

Hey Devon, here's a link to our VoiceThread. We hope you like it! [] -Pam and Kelly

I can't see your voice thread! I think you need to go make sure it isn't private. If you click on the little menu button at the bottom right of your voice thread and then click "Share," you should be able to click "Get a Link." That's what we did, and I think it worked. -Kelly