Week of 6/1

This week we had some cool opportunities which helped me to learn more abut how I can best help my students and helped me to understand key concepts that can make me a better teacher. 

This week for our preparation work we learned about assessments and how to plan instruction based on the needs of your students. In class we had the opportunity to work together and find the links between these two things and how we can use them to help our students. We found that we wanted to use the results of the assessments to know how to best teach our students. We also talked about how when were are trying to have lessons that most help the students we will also be able to screen students and see if they are struggling a lot in certain areas and if the need to be tested for special education services. I found that these two things are related much more than I had expected them to be and that when you connect them we can help our students much more effectively then we would be able to otherwise. 

We also had the opportunity to look at a student who had been tested for learning disabilities and has learning disabilities. With this student we looked at how we could help him to be able to learn well and understand what he was learning and how we could help him to stay focused and on task. In our group we talked about how having the students have buddies could really help all the students to stay on task and especially our student with learning disabilities. We also talked about how hands on activities could help this student like using manipulatives in math, experiments in science and playing with instruments in music. Having hands on activities will help our learning disabled student to learn well and it will also ultimately help the other students to learn better. 

Knowing and understanding these things will help me to better understand how to help my students and ultimately become a better teacher.