What To Teach Summary And Analysis

I believe that I am proficient in establishing a classroom setting that calls upon the students to learn in an individual and collaborative manner. I believe that I have sufficiently encouraged positive social interaction, active engagement in learning, and self motivation. I have shown this in learning activities that have been presented to the students. An example of this would be with the placard assignment, which had the students fill out a sheet that corresponded to four maps to help them figure out what artifacts certain cultural regions would use. During this learning segment, students would have to be self directed after the directions were given, the students would have to use collaborative skills, and they were all engaged during

strategies and learning tasks to re-engage students (including what you and the students will be doing)

I will try to engage students with a story to start the lesson, which will focus their learning (Moitra, 2014). For example, introducing the lesson on alcohols by recounting their use in our daily life and why they are used in those situations. This engagement allows connection to their lives, they start the class by realising what you are saying to them is important and you are worth listening to (Makodia, 2009). This needs to be told with enthusiasm and passion to show that what you are saying is exciting and fascinating. This will require a range of tone and pace to allow the students to feel like they are hearing an interesting story. Through using gestures and walking around the class I can engage all students by allowing them to follow

The stickiness factor is once again a huge factor in schools, especially in an advanced course. A class can be entitled to fail because of a bland instructor or a boring environment. Working environments must be eye catching or otherwise the information can enter through one ear and out the other. Adding an interactive assignment or making it rather fun can improve the retention of the subject and the students will be proficient in their work. For example adding pictures or making the presentation more attractive can benefit both the teacher and the student. Having student interaction can also make other students want to participate and be productive. The way they do their work can also affect them make them want to actually do it. If the Stickiness factor is done correctly the student can increase in their academics and even be more attentive in their classroom. For example, the website Kahoot is an incredibly fun and interactive website where a teacher can test and see the level of understanding the student is

Knowing what to teach is extremely important you don’t want to teach what children know already it causes them to lose interest but you don’t want to overwhelm them its all about balance. You have to know what your class is interested in and how to adapt to what each child likes. We also have standards so that we have an idea of what we should be teaching our students. We need to make sure we prepare our lesson in advance so we know it and are not stumbling over our words and having to keep looking away from our students. Standards have benefits and disadvantages if we have too many it beomes overwhelming for our student but with too little there isn’t enough material to keep them interested. We should make sure our standards are appropriate and that the make sense in the way we are presenting them. Standards help us present our information to our students in a way that makes sense to them and us. Every program we teach has challenges but if address them with grace and ease it will help our students accept them better. We also need to know how to teach our students to address their

Describe fully what happened when you tried to engage the children’s interest during the activity time? When the children first came to me I didn’t have any problem engaging them in the lesson. They were excited to do an activity that was new and on a topic that they don’t normally do during centers. The students like the game nature of the lesson. They didn’t necessary realize that they were learning while completing the center. The problem came with some of the children that have a harder time with self-control. They had a time waiting for their turn without goofing off. Also the children were the lesson wasn’t just not developmental appropriate had a hard time focusing.

Throughout this year I have been given various amazing opportunities for professional development. Being a reading anchor classroom has given me a variety of opportunities to complete professional development. Two of the most impactful pieces of professional development that I received were, training on the architecture of a mini lesson and creating a demonstration notebook. These two pieces have significantly helped me to increase student engagement for my whole class as well as in small groups and individual conferences. I have also worked very hard to consistently be aware of the level of engagement in my classroom. When I notice students aren't engaged I try to change my approach in order to increase engagement. After a math observation

What effect did your teaching strategies have in terms of promoting student learning and keeping your students meaningfully engaged? (APS 5.A–C)

First knowing the subject, then deciding the length of the lesson and which key stage is it aimed for.

Observing my students in a variety of academic environments, I see how they engage in their learning throughout the day whether they are interested in the subject, if a teacher is particular engaging, or even if a certain lesson or strategy is particularly effective. The teachers are all SIOP trained and regularly implement strategies from the program; however, as a whole the classes remain teacher-centered except for various “activities” that occur during the week that engages the

One of the tips I plan to use for myself as a future teach is "To create a safe environment, show that you are human"(Koch, 2013, p 173). This is a very important tip for me to use because as a

I know that children learn in many different ways. Observing, experimenting, reading, and listening are a few of those many ways. I have learned that people learn best when the information is something that they are interested in. I am going to strive to make every lesson fun, and applicable to my students. I favor using many methods to teach, including lecturing, cooperative learning, project based instruction, and “hands-on” activities. I want the classroom to be a place that the students enjoy, not a boring place. I believe that every child has an innate hunger for learning and becoming successful. If I can harness their craving and aim it in the right direction, I believe I will be successful in helping these students achieve what they are looking for in life.

Participating in sports while living my high school daily life has taught me how to organize my life. I go to school for nine hours and after I have some sort of homework I would need to do by the next day, but then I would also have Softball practice right after school for an hour. After practice, I would be so tired, I couldn't even make it to my room sometimes, I just took a nap right in front of the front door. I didn’t do my homework, I barely did any chorus around the house and my grades slowly dropped. I couldn’t let this happened, but then in a way joining a sport taught me how to be prepared. I would make up a plan in my head of what I was going to do before the day even started. I would set reminders on my phone put school project

Oftentimes, students see math class as a task to be completed to graduate from the 8th grade and move on to high-school, rather than an opportunity to build problem solving and quantitative reasoning skills useful in everyday life. This is true of my students. Many of my students believe that algebra and geometry will not be useful skills in their professional careers. This means that I have not framed my course well enough for students to grasp its importance. The result of this view is low academic engagement in class, where students may comply and feign on-task behavior; however, students are not truly grappling with the material in order to understand it. Consequently, on the first quiz of the year, the average score was a 50%. Due to my students’ underdeveloped view of math, they neither monitor nor evaluate their own academic growth and learning. Instead, they simply rely on me, their teacher, to provide them with an agenda, tasks to keep them busy, and then a final grade. Additionally, as a whole, my students struggle to create, track, and revise goals in order to achieve measures they set. I must provide more coaching and support for students to set their own goals and monitor their progress towards achieving them. Lastly, my students have trouble creating and later seeking answers to their own mathematical questions, which leaves them disengaged from the mental exercise of investigating real-world problems applicable to their everyday lives. I must provide more

My observations has taught me the importance of engaging students. I am now able to recognize when a student is not engaged. They seem distracted and are not paying attention to what the teacher is saying. Whereas an engaged student is alert, discussing the material, and asking questions