Individual students will be using their iPads consistently throughout the day. They will be used across the curriculum with students blogging, interacting on our class wiki, and creating multimedia projects. In small group instruction, specifically Tier 2 instruction, the iPads will be used to differentiate instruction. During small group instruction I will using Apps that compliment our units of study. Some students made need help with basic math facts while other students are ready to do some enrichment problem solving with their mathematics.
Pictures: Pictures are used alongside words to make communication more easier and understandable. In fact in my placement school, the reading scheme that is used starts the children off with ‘picture only’ books so the children are encouraged to talk about the pictures in the book and make their own story up and ask questions. Technology: Computer programmes (apps and games), interactive whiteboard, story tapes, cds are all ways of stimulating a child’s communication development. These days a lot of programmes are interactive and children can hear and respond to different applications made specially to help develop their
By designing activities based around computers and technology, Information Technology learners will feel more comfortable and confident completing tasks. An example of this could be setting an activity for the class to play a maths related online computer game and then to write an evaluation using a word processing package. The learners will be give a printed brief of their task showing the website address to access the game and the criteria to consider when writing their evaluation. Function skills are embedded in this session as the learner would have to be able to: • Listen and interpret the instructions of the task. • Read the website address to access the maths game.
Allowing students to work in groups with magnetic words that are good words for similes and metaphors that students can choose from to help them in sentence assembly and improvement could be fun and educational. .2What methods can James use to check for comprehension once the lesson is
Task 2 Part A Scenario 2 1. Positive Social Interaction: In a 3rd grade classroom, the homework policy in scenario two would promote best practices in social interaction in a few different ways. As per the policy, if a student is turning in homework late, they must first discuss it with the teacher. This is a form of conflict resolution, because they discuss why it is being turned in late (they just forgot, or even ran out of time at home) and try to figure out a way of preventing this in the future. It also gives the young student an opportunity to prove that they participated in the activity, even if they forgot to turn it in right away.
When a student is surrounded by “the right crowd”, peer influences tend to better the student. For example, a student may give advice on how to play a difficult piece of music for music class, or a student could witness a good deed being done by a friend and feel the urge to do the same later that day. Most of the time, school teaches students about facts, but, on the other hand, friends and peers teaches students about life skills that can benefit them for life. Students
Students will be less focused in school, and less likely to continue their educations, if they dread going to school each day. Including art and music in he curriculum will motivate students, and will inspire them to enjoy school. It will also give them a creative outlet. Many young people have trouble expressing their emotions in words, but find that the can communicate their ideas through music and art. Giving students an opportunity to create every day will keep them engaged in learning, keep frustration at bay, and lead to happier, more fulfilled children.
Gatto says that school diminishes creativity; if anything kids discover their hidden creativeness in class while at school. He also says that kids are not able to advance in higher learning. When clearly, kids are able to follow the teacher and be able to get A's while the subjects get more extreme. Gatto says, "teachers tend to blame the kids, as you might expect"(pg. 683) from personal experiences I can say that I have had great relationships with my teachers throughout elementary school and especially High school.
When it comes to Cognitive Behavioral interventions the behavioral concept is to incorporate systematic procedures for rewarding students for the reduction of aggressive behavior that they display to their peers, administration staff and educators and use their problem solving strategies instead of lashing out. The educator will use social reinforcements to praise and recognize which can include extra time on the computer, listening to their favorite song or even extra time in recess to show that their positive attitude and behavior is appreciated. We know that this won’t be easy or will not be picked up by the student quickly having positive feedback, rules and regulations set in place, proper modeling and even multiple practice opportunities. We cannot place the child in a situation that we know they are going to fail in just to prove a point and we have to keep in mind that every child is not the same and every reaction will not be the same as well (Etscheidt, S.,
As students we can join hands with other stakeholders to educate the young people on the negative effects of drug, alcohol abuse, etc. This would go a long way in helping bring down the level of violence especially that which involves young people/students. Students can also be involved in educating their peers against the violent movies and other materials that are meant to fan hatred and violence especially on the Internet (The Library ,1). As students we have a major role to play in ensuring that ours will be a peaceful world. We are not going to make the mistakes of yesteryears but we are going to use them as route maps to our destiny as human beings.