Christopher D. Hansen, M.Ed.
Christopher D. Hansen, M.Ed.
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Professional Teacher Portfolio
Washington State
Residency Teaching License
Elementary and
Special Education Endorsements
My daughter Allison and I both graduated with our Master's Degrees in Education from Western Governor's University. July 2023 - Seattle
Allison is an Elementary ELL Teacher in a local public school.
PHILOSOPHY OF
SPECIAL EDUCATION
Students can achieve amazing things; this most definitely includes exceptional students with special needs. I believe all students can achieve the highest possible learning outcomes if given the appropriate environment to thrive, and that supports best practices for inclusion.
It does not matter the social or economic background of the student or family, I believe this to be true of all students, they each deserve to learn and be taught with challenging expectations. This includes special education students. It is my philosophy that every student is capable of the highest possible learning outcomes within their potential, if given the platform and opportunity to learn among their peers, and not in isolation. When this is realized, they can achieve their potential and experience a quality-of-life potential that respects their dignity, culture, language, and background. (Counsel for Exceptional Children, 2015)
The true purpose of school and special educational services is not a “one size fits all” approach, but rather to formulate an individual program to meet the educational needs of a particular student. Special education is a range of services that are developed to address the individual needs of students with disabilities. It is developing the meaningful participation of services that include students in general education classrooms, as appropriate.
The role of the teacher in special education is to promote the inclusion of students into general education classrooms, and community events. The teacher needs to bring others together who are providing services to exceptional students. This fosters and develops relationships with families that are filled with mutual respect, and they seek out the family’s participation in their child’s IEP, and see its goals fulfilled for their child. My goal is for them to make real-world connections for themselves. As their teacher, I advocate for resources and conditions that improve educational and life skill outcomes, so that the quality of life for each student can improve. The best way to achieve student learning is to integrate methods that create a focus on real-world learning that is integrated into the general education classroom. Scaffolding the student's learning, helps them see each part in small segments. The focus is to create a learning environment that is authentic and engages students in ways that are meaningful to them.
Counsel for Exceptional Children, (2015) What Every Special Educator Must Know: Professional Ethics and Standards, Arlington VA
WHY I TEACH
Teaching is my passion, I thoroughly enjoy watching students gain a love of learning while I reach them with interesting and meaningful lessons. Throughout my career, I have continued to refine my skills as an educator. Today, I am confident I can have notable success with students in different venues, both special education and general education. I am committed to bringing my excellent teaching skills and experiences to any educational setting, either special education or general education, in-person or virtual.
HOW I TEACH
As a classroom facilitator, I actively engage students with proven methods that get them involved in their own learning. I use individual IEP goals to get students actively involved in the learning process using technology, when appropriate. Their IEP goals are used to make real-world connections so that their learning is personalized.
In July 2021, my wife and I took Sebastian our nephew on an Alaskan Glacier Cruise! It was amazing!
On a personal note, I have a nephew who is now a young adult living with autism. As a family, we have all learned to see his world through a different lens. I believe his challenges and successes have equipped me with additional hands-on experience to understand and appreciate the exception of his world, and his unique outlook more fully. I am confident I can make a positive impact on students' learning, teaching them the social and emotional skills they need, along with experiencing academic success.
My Introduction Video
My Introduction Video
Created for Public School 3rd Graders who I taught virtually from Pennsylvania
Created for Public School 3rd Graders who I taught virtually from Pennsylvania
Transcript to Mr. Hansen's Introduction Video
Transcript to Mr. Hansen's Introduction Video
Transcript of Mr. Hansen Introduction Video
hello i'm mr hansen and i'm excited to join the team here at accelerate education as your teacher and i'm taking a little time out to make a little video about some of the things i've done and so you get to know me on the video and i'm looking forward to getting to know you as we go through the school year here so i'm going to do a little screen share here with you
all right so welcome to mr hanson's class and uh one of the things that i like to do is i do like to travel around and i'll talk a little bit about that seen a lot of things i've been teaching for more than 20 years i've taught high school students i've taught kindergarten and lots of people in between so i'm excited about seeing this coming year and the things that we can learn together we have a world of things to learn i live here near seattle washington and i call it the upper left-hand side of our country in washington state not washington dc that's different than washington state but a very beautiful place we have the space needle mount rainier some of the things we can see here in seattle some more pictures of beautiful washington state and this is a wonderful cloud that comes around mount rainier once in a while we have the coast and wonderful place to live and if if you're gonna live here in seattle of course you're gonna ask me are you a seattle seahawks fan and absolutely i am and i love them very much i also lived and taught in sacramento which is the capital of california this is california state down here and i taught kindergarten first grade third grade there in sacramento
i also started my teaching career here in portland oregon which is kind of this part here in the middle state so i've taught up and down the whole west coast as we're looking at the states and there's some very beautiful parts of the pacific northwest this is mount hood here in downtown portland
besides teaching the west coast of the united states here i have taught on the other side they call the pond or the pacific ocean to a place called seoul korea which is the capital of south korea between japan and china and spent there six years worked with internationals students from all different countries and taught esl or english as a second language there taught high school students different things so yes i've taught internationally too and i have two children uh my daughter here she is a fourth grade teacher at a local public school here in the seattle area this is her at her desk at her public school and this is my son chad and he um works on construction site in the uh the area
i love to travel as you can see and last summer went up to alaska and uh alaska has these beautiful um oceans and glaciers and this is a picture of a baby bear taken right from my own camera and had a great time up there did some other traveling this last summer into yellowstone national park you can see our country here it's right over here this is something called old faithful geyser beautiful waterfalls and this picture i took myself of a mountain goat that was in the parking lot and we pulled in and it was licking some ice and saw it myself and took some videos of it actually also went to something called glacier national park which is in the area and went to rocky mountain national park there in the town nearby there it's called uh a herd of elk that was sitting in the grass area right across literally right across of city hall here actually beautiful this is the sunrise and the rocky mountain national park and this is a bear that was not in the wild but they had a bear exhibit there to see them yourself i took that picture myself and one last interesting thing about mr hansen at one time i was a drum major of a scottish bagpipe band and the bagpipes are beautiful instruments i don't have one to show you right now but we had about 30 members in the band and i was the leader of the band with a mace and show people where to march and if i was doing it today i would look something like that and i would like to learn something interesting about you too so thank you for um listening to my video and looking forward to learning with you different things around the world my name is mr hansen thank you
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