Clinical Field Experience B

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I gave the assessment we created to every student in my class, but I chose to focus interventions on one student who did not do well. Due to the fact that she is a legit student of mine, and I want to respect her privacy, for this, we are going to call her Ann. Ann is a fourth- grade student and was given an informal assessment that would see how well she understood the tier 1 instruction of sound waves. Ann did not do well on the assessment. The assessment asked students to explain how Hellen Keller could “listen” to the New York Symphony and how her family who could hear listened to the symphony. Ann’s response only explained how her family listened to the music, and even that response was not very developed. She said they listened with their ears. While that is not incorrect, I was hoping for explanation on how the sound waves traveled from the speakers/instruments to their ears. When I met with Ann to discuss her results, she is a student I have to be very careful about the way I approach things because she is a student who is very hard on herself. We discussed her results, and she was disappointed because she thought she had done very well. I explained to her that her explanation was not completely wrong, it just missed the mark a little bit. I told her that I would work with her to ensure this was something she would eventually understand. Mary and I came up with a couple of interventions to use for Ann, we decided that our first step would be to pre-teach, our second step would be re-teach, and our third step would be a hands on intervention that we could do at school or at home. For the first intervention, I came to the realization that perhaps Ann did not know who Hellen Keller was. There is a very good possibility that during the tier 1 instruction, I focused on the explanation of the expectation rather than give students any background information on who Hellen Keller was and why, for this lesson, it was so important students understand how she was able to “listen” to the music. So we set up a lesson for Ann that would have some readings on

who Hellen Keller was and why she was so influential. During this intervention, most of the work is done one-on-one with Ann and myself. I will be reading the articles with her, and helping her understand the key details. For the re-teach aspect, we will dive deeper into the specifics of how sound waves move and why sounds travel the way they do. This is a very hard concept for students to understand, so I will be sure to include simpler explanations and more specific activities for Ann, that may help her understand that sound does create waves and vibrations, and those vibrations is how Hellen Keller “listened” to the music. She was able to feel the music. The third intervention is something that I wanted to bring in Ann’s mom for. Ann’s mother is actually hard of hearing, so she was able to do an activity with Ann, that allowed Ann to experience what it would have been like for Hellen Keller by placing noise canceling headphones on Ann and playing music through one of their speakers at home. This intervention not only gets her family involved in Ann’s education, but it also provides a more personal attachment for Ann. That is important because it gives the students buy in to what they are learning. Giving this assessment, I realized that there were aspects of my tier 1 instruction that I in fact missed the mark on. Where I assumed my students knew who Hellen Keller was, it turns out a great deal of them did not. There is always going to be a level of pre-teaching needed when bringing in outside aspects to an assessment. It also made me realize that the assessment may not have been the best designed assessment for what I was assessing. While I wanted to figure out if students understood sound waves and vibrations, it turns out a large part of what I was assessing was if students knew who Hellen Keller was. That had nothing to do with what I was focused on. Having a well-developed assessment that truly assesses the target is essential when working with

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