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Teacher understands how learners grow and develop, and designs and implements developmentally appropriate and challenging learning experiences. As a Student Teacher in first grade at wilson elementary, I have had the experience in getting to understand how students grow and develop.
Teacher understands how learners grow and develop, and designs and implements developmentally appropriate and challenging learning experiences. As a Student Teacher in first grade at wilson elementary, I have had the experience in getting to understand how students grow and develop.
Teacher understands how learners grow and develop, and designs and implements developmentally appropriate and challenging learning experiences. As a Student Teacher in first grade at wilson elementary, I have had the experience in getting to understand how students grow and develop.
The teacher understands how learners grow and develop,
recognizing that patterns of learning and development vary individually within and across the cognitive, linguistic, social, emotional, and physical areas, and designs and implements developmentally appropriate and challenging learning experiences. Artifact 1: As a Student Teacher in First grade at Wilson Elementary I have had the experience in getting to understand how learners grow and develop. In the first few weeks I have taken the responsibility of teaching math only. The last topic was Measurement and Data and learning about telling time. The students need to know how to write and tell time to the hour and half hour using digital and analog clocks. Some students were catching on quickly with the use of hands on clocks. Students caught on quickly to reading and writing using the digital clocks. With the analog clock students were struggling to read the correct time, mostly the hour hand and where it was pointing in particular. Students were reading the minute hand correctly but often getting the hour hand placement wrong. After teaching students with using many hands on scaffolding techniques, interactive videos, games, and worksheets I then assessed students to get an idea of their learning progress. I was able to see after a few assessments exactly where students misunderstandings were. I was able to redesign and modify my instruction. I was able to see exactly where I needed to focus. I was able to see exactly which group of students needed reteaching and what the focus skill would be. Reflection: This was a wonderful experience for me to see exactly how students learn and develop. The whole process was fun and interesting for me as a teacher. I was able to reflect on how well I taught the information. With the math topic being time I was able to introduce to the students a whole new topic and standards to the students and see how well they performed first with my first few lessons. It was a great opportunity for me to go from there and see what I needed to do next as a teacher. It was comforting to know that the majority of the
students caught on and had no problem with the assignments and
assessments. Through many lessons I still had students that struggled to have certain time rules click for them. Fortunately, I was able to find time to have a small group reteaching instruction session. I assessed all students regularly to see how I needed to modify and change what I was saying. The first way I developed the lesson may have not clicked for this particular group of students. I was able to scaffold their learning in a small group setting. I re-assessed the students to check for understanding again with the small group that helped even more to see where their progress was. It was fun for me to take on the challenge of helping these students learn and develop more with this particular time math topic. I created an environment for the small group to come and learn more and hear the information in a new way. I met with the students and was able to see them develop right before my eyes. It was great to see that light bulb finally click on exactly where that hour hand needs to be pointing when it is 5:30. It was great to see that in the beginning not all students caught on. It is not normal for all students to understand the new concepts the first time. It developed me as a teacher to take a deeper look at the individual students learning and how they develop. This gave me the opportunity to create the appropriate instruction for these particular
students and find a way to see their strengths in the task and see what needs they needed to enable them to accelerate.
Learner Development (part 2)
Artifact 2: In my student teaching class I have a student that shows signs of ADHD. He has not been tested; as parents are not sure that is the route they want to take with him. I have never seen this student sit still. He has to constantly be tapping his feet, moving in his seat, or touching some object on his desk. He is constantly inside his sweatshirt or shirt messing around. He often stands up and walks in front of the teacher without asking to get up. He never focus on the lesson or has eye contact with the teacher during lessons. He is one that needs extra monitoring and guidance. When it comes to his work he is performing at a meeting level. He does not necessarily struggle with the content or learning the skill. Its amazing that he is extremely disruptive and distracted but still picks up on the lessons. As a student teacher I have been given the opportunity to work with my cooperating teacher and the schools counselors about a plan to help this student. This particular student has caused distractions for himself and for other students. His behavior affects the learner and his/her development all around. I have gathered with other professionals to see what we can do to better help this individual in hopes to not let his behavior get in the way of his own and others learning. Reflection: This student with his particular behavior and constant disruptions has given me the opportunity to see how it works in the schools to collaborate with families, colleagues, and other professionals about how to help certain students. With his behavior being a constant problem it has slowed his learning growth and development. It has been interesting for me to learn that students with different personalities, learning styles, behaviors, and level of learning can change the way they grow and develop. I have enjoyed meeting with
the counselors about this particular student on a monthly basis. The
meetings with the counselors are called kid talk It is where we get together to develop new tactics to see what works and what doesnt for our various learners. One thing in particular that I thought was interesting is for this student being so disruptive we have found that he will focus for a longer period of time if he has something to be touching or doing that prevents him from being disruptive. We have him seated on a cushion bubble seat. This prevents him from rocking backwards in his chair. He can now just rock back and forth on this cushion. We have also put strips of Velcro on the bottom of his desk so he can keep his hands and fingers busy but still be quiet and more focused on the teacher. As a student teacher I have learned so much about behaviors and how we can better students environments in hopes to help them learn and develop better mentally, physically, emotionally, and socially. I have enjoyed collaborating with others to get ideas. This has helped me to be a teacher that will always view each student as an individual and create appropriate situations and change the environment for the better for students that can use their strengths, interests, and needs as a powerful learning tool for themselves.