Works with Students as Individuals
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Teachers accept and value what students bring to school and
scaffold learning by using students' prior knowledge, prior life
experiences, personal life goals, role models, values, and talents.
This requires learning about students through observation,
interaction, and discussion with parents and colleagues as well as
adapting curriculum when necessary.
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A TE 803 assignment required me to select one student for a case study. The student I profiled, a young man with an autism spectrum disorder in a mainstream classroom, proved to be an interesting case study. I learned about his home life, extracurricular interests, and preferred methods of engagement in order to inform a list of potential accommodations. In accordance to the Common Core Standards, I transposed the appropriate accommodations into my day-to-day lesson plans because universal designs for learning demand that all students be held to the same standard. The document on the right is an evaluation, which explains whether or not my intervention strategies were effective.
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Per the requirements of a TE 802 assignment, I conducted a literacy inquiry in the beginning of the school year in order to establish a rudimentary level of knowledge about my new students. I composed and distributed a survey about media consumption habits and allowed students the opportunity to be anonymously vulnerable by telling me their challenges with content area literacies.The findings influenced how I organized my class and how I went about tweaking my lesson plans in order to make them as culturally relevant as possible.
My mentor teacher gave me a ground tour of Southfield high school and I could not help but notice two things:
1) There are two gyms (aka fieldhouses) in the building
2) There is a separate cafeteria that is casually nicknamed "the football cafeteria"
I surmised that sports are highly valued by the building culture and I used that knowledge to inform the above lesson. I adapted the curriculum, which demanded that I teach a lesson in a unit thematically anchored to "chasing success" my presenting students with a conception of success through a collegiate basketball frame of mind.
1) There are two gyms (aka fieldhouses) in the building
2) There is a separate cafeteria that is casually nicknamed "the football cafeteria"
I surmised that sports are highly valued by the building culture and I used that knowledge to inform the above lesson. I adapted the curriculum, which demanded that I teach a lesson in a unit thematically anchored to "chasing success" my presenting students with a conception of success through a collegiate basketball frame of mind.