Every diligent effort leads to satisfactory results. Most educators feel content and energized when their students exhibit successful outcomes. Nevertheless, students’ success requires collaborative efforts between teachers, parents, and students. Moreover, for educators to effective perform the teaching duty they need to be familiar with the Program Learning Outcome (PLO) and use them daily with the classroom environment. PLO 1 Instructional Planning for Learner Development Instructional Planning for Learner Development constitute the primary (PLO). This skill requires teachers to “design appropriate and challenging learning experiences informed by analysis of how learners develop individually across the cognitive, linguistic, social, emotional, and physical patterns to promote student learning and growth”(PLO 2014). Knowledge has no limit and life is a learning process. Thus, every teacher remains an advanced student. As a result, for a teacher to be effective in his classroom and an active member of the community, he or she needs to be an avid learner, be open to new ideas and suggestion. Additionally, the teacher needs to always exploring innovative ways and methods to better help and serve the students and other members of the school community. The school administrators should create a planning learning community based on trust and respectful relationships where every teacher has an opportunity to share his vision and experience, share tactics, find advices,
Building relationships, developing leadership, and focusing on our school as a community will create an environment where students are building a future for themselves. By looking at what worked in the past while also looking at the future, our school community is more likely to be able to come together to create the school that our students truly need. As a school principal, I am dedicating myself to improving the educational experiences of my students and staff. I will constantly work to build a successful school community through collaboration, hard work, and
Teaching demands a lot of creativity and being able to adapt to different situations and environments. However, in order to experience lasting success, more than pot luck, charisma and spontaneity are required. Planning is essential. Planning and preparation gives a certain level of confidence. Whether it is a single lesson or a whole course, planning allows you to design the learning journey you wish to take your students on. In designing, you can make sure that you are catering for all your learners’ needs. This includes sufficient differentiation; for SEN needs as well as your gifted and talented students. In planning you can ensure that your lessons have a definite beginning, middle and end and have clear aims and targets. At this stage you will also prepare and plan resources. Also, you must plan your assessments. How will you know when the students have learned what you set out to teach? How will they know? How are you going to prove that learning has taken place at the end of the course? All these points will be addressed in the planning stage of the teacher training cycle.
I believe that positive student/teacher interaction and family involvement are essential to the learning process. I believe that all students can succeed in education. It is my goal as a teacher to develop the intellect of all learners through a challenging curriculum. I hope to propose thought provoking questions that will prompt students to think and learn on their own. I will provide supervised practice to ensure the students in my classroom are learning. I believe problem-solving skills will be the most valuable skills students can learn. It is important for the class to be active in the community and active in life-changing events. Students learn best by doing. Emphasis will be placed on learning how to learn. Students will take an active role in helping decide what they learn and how they want to learn it. They will be responsible for helping to care for and maintain the learning environment, thus taking ownership of the class.
As an educator, it is my job to find new ways for my students to learn that coincides with their particular learning style and takes advantage of their strengths. In all practical terms, this will mean finding new ways for each of my students to learn in their own particular way. As a whole, my students will need more reason to learn with authentic experiences, hands-on
B. Inclusive learning, e.g. the use of different delivery methods, resources and adapting session plans.
When I do plan my lessons, I focus first on my student’s interests, readiness skills, and learning profile and take into consideration that their interests, readiness and learning profile follows in the content that I teach. I then apply my teaching lessons with various activities to keep their brains active and engaged in the learning
She was faced with the challenge of teaching a wide range of learner pathways while striving to maximize the learning for all her students grades first through eighth. While what my grandmother faced over eighty years ago is an obvious exaggeration in differentiation; the reality is that each class room in our schools is a microcosm of that environment. Each student learns through different pathways and it is the role of each teacher to maximize their learning potential by differentiating their instructional practices. Hence, the teachers of my school must strive to connect students and academic content through a responsive instructional practice that is reflective of the needs of their students (Tomlinson, C., Brimijoin, K., & Narvaez, L.,
Artifact 1: Artifact 1, under Tab E: Instructional Planning and Strategies is the IEP Final completed in the graduate course ELSE 6073 Educational Procedures for Moderate and Profound individuals. For the IEP project, participants were provided information about an individual diagnosed with a severe disability. Based on the information provided, candidates were asked to develop IEP goals and objectives based on the student’s individual needs. Additionally, participates were to complete a final IEP for the selected student, incorporating the seven steps in the IEP completion process.
This school has the potential makings of wonderful learning institution. Hypothetically, if I were to create an effective learning community, it must entail a few critical characteristics. First, I would insist that the faculty, staff and myself share in the vision of the school. I want everyone to feel comfortable in identifying and resolving problems that manifest during the education process. Our vision will be in support of a rigorous student learning platform, and the teachers will be expected to guide their work and decision-making in support of this program. In return, I
As an educational leader, I must have a vision and mission statement for the school that is known by the staff, students, and parents. The vision will address the needs of the students academically, emotionally, and socially. According to DuFour (1998), “ Those who seek to transform their school into a professional learning community as characterized by an environment fostering mutual cooperation, emotional support, personal growth, and a synergy of efforts.” The leader must implement a plan that will cultivate the success of all students. The mission will speak to the direction of the school community stating what the desire goals are. The building leader will lead by example. High expectations will be communicated and encourage by staff and students. The educational leader of a school must develop a culture of team work to create a climate that is student friendly. The vision mission and goals of the leader should be transparent. The establishment of common goals is the first step. Without common goals, sustainable progress will be impossible and thus everyone will have lower expectations. The students, parents, and staff should be commented to the goals of every child reaching their full academic potential. The school environment should speak to goal setting and high expectations for all students and staff.
As a future teacher, I will spend hours planning and executing lessons, but when some lessons did not go well, I may wonder, “What happened and why? Also, this experience taught myself to be proactive. Teaching uses specific strategies for students such as re-reading the problems or supplying students with additional materials. So, I’m designing an environment that influences all areas of their development.
I believe that effective teaching should focus on implementing higher-order thinking skills, project-based learning opportunities, collaborative experiences, open-ended explorations, technology-embedded activities, and even flipped classrooms. Teachers need to be constantly reflective and flexible, while using a variety of teaching strategies, so they can adjust their teaching and be able to make a plan that will to meet the diverse needs of all students and encourage students to be active partners in the process.
InTASC standard 10 is that the teacher seeks appropriate leadership roles and opportunities to take responsibility for student learning, to collaborate with learners, families, colleagues, other school professionals, and community members to ensure learner growth, and to advance the profession. This artifact alligns with standard 10, becasue leadership needs constant development. The AP workshop gathered numerous experienced teacher that were able to pass along professional tools of the trade to younger more experienced educators. This interactive environment of experienced teachers from across the state allowed different perspectives from rural and urban schools, each suited with thier own problems and assests. Teachers are always learning and adapting new skills in order to transfer those skills to students; That process of professional
By having clear objectives and having high expectation for students, I have achieved students’ growth. I also have excellent classroom management skills. I have a strong belief in the PBIS method. I believe positive reinforcement allows students to grow in develop in a safe, encouraging
Reece and Walker (2000) discuss, there are several building blocks to be considered when planning for effective learning. I will discuss the sections of the planning process that need to be considered planning for a lesson.