Anisha Spellman Benchmark Assessment: Language Arts Unit Plan Grand Canyon University: EED-525 November 27, 2013 “Learning to read and reading to learn” is a quote that one of the schools in my district uses to help motivate reading in all students and their families. I believe reading is an important aspect of all lives. What exactly would the world be like without the reading? It is crucial that we teach this to all of the little children while they are young and trying to learn. The more they practice and the more teachers and parents instill this in their minds, the better they will become.
Teachers who truly value the family’s role in a child’s education, and recognize how much they can accomplish by working with families, can build a true partnership (Dodge, Colker, and Heroman, 2002, pg. 211). The curriculum is based around the theories of: Abraham Maslow (basic needs and learning), Jean Piaget (logical thinking and reasoning), Lev Vygotsky (social interaction and learning), Howard Gardner (multiple intelligences), and Sara Smilansky (play and learning). These theorist help mold the foundation for the curriculum that is used in many classrooms today. The Creative Curriculum enhances social/emotional, physical, cognitive, and language development.
Teachers need direction in order to meet academic proficiencies and to keep student’s interest (Laureate Education, Inc., 2010). After exploring several learning theories and strategies, my own teaching practices are most often modeled by several strategies and learning theories. The Constructivism Theory resonates in some of the techniques I am using in the classroom. Reflecting on student activities and the design my lessons ; I find students are most often engaged in learning activities that are student driven and lead to students constructing their own conclusions. Student often work at stations and learn through team building and planned movement.
There are several relationships that matter here: Parent- teacher, parent- child, teacher- child. They all should be equally yoked and the parent should realize that each of these relationships will be beneficial to their child. “ Several Studies show that when parents are positively involved in their child’s education that they achieve higher grade, test scores, perform better in school, and actually attend school” (Children, 2008). The children are more excited about learning and education because their parents show an interest in it. In the teacher- child relationship, the teacher can build the relationship by utilizing active listening skills, making direct eye contact, engaging in one on one and face to face interactions with the child.
Unit 307 support Assessment for learning 1.1 Compare and contrast the roles of the teacher and the learning support practitioner and assessment of learners, achievements Effective assessment plays a vital role in demonstrating how a teacher teaches and how pupils learn; it also allows a teacher to meet with other teachers to share examples of pupil’s progress and discuss why they think that child is working at that particular level. One of the main responsibilities of the class teacher is to monitor and assess pupil achievement in order to observe how all children in the class are progressing, assessing a pupil will also enable a child to recognise their own achievements in order to make progress in their own learning and allow teachers to adapt their teaching to a child’s individual needs. The teacher is responsible for following the curriculum, planning lessons and providing the necessary resources for the children, she will also develop and adapt learning activities to suit the requirements of individual groups of children who will need them that sets out a clear learning objective so that learner progress can be measured and to make the children aware of their learning intentions, this will decide whether that particular child requires more or less in their learning and targets will then be set for the child, if pupils have not made any advancement towards their learning objective, either the learning objective needs to be modified or adapted or the teaching tactics improved. A teacher’s responsibilities towards the children in their care also involve; • Deliver an on going record of each child’s progress in class. • Inform children about their individual performances and achievement’s.
Although the term culturally relevant pedagogy is usually correlated with teaching racially and ethnically diverse students, its efficacy is not confined to those students (Gay, 2006). A teacher’s main priority should be maximizing learning in the classroom, thus making it his or her responsibility to create an appropriate curriculum for the entire class. It should reflect a comfort level so every culture and race is equally represented. John Dewey was a theorist who spoke of the significance of reflective thought in education (Southern Poverty Law Center). Critical reflection allows a deeper understanding within moral and ethical perspectives of teaching.
A formativie assessment is a variety of informal and formal assessments measures that are used by teachers during the learning process in order to adapt teaching and learning activities to improve a child’s attainment in school, it is designed to give pupils feedback in order to improve in their learning and help a pupil understand what is expected of them in relation to their educational success and give ideas as to how to develop their work. In order for formative assessment to be effective, there must be a whole school approach which includes teachers in each year group assessing with subject leaders to ensure consistency within year groups in order to maintain high individual pupil progress. Informal/Formative teacher assessments are carried out by teachers throughout the course of their teaching by using assessment
Clinical Interview Self I. Introduction Teachers are consequential to the students’ future as they help educate children on important topics and skills necessary for their following academic years being the basis for the students’ knowledge and success. What students are taught in school by their teachers will eventually guide them in their future endeavors. A teacher’s main goal is for the students to succeed and master the course material. If a student can successfully complete the necessary assessment with a ‘good’ grade, the teacher assumes it portrays a student’s mastery over a topic.
Even in the young grades, teachers need to relate the content in which they are teaching in every way possible. Authentic instruction is a wonderful strategy to use in the classroom, to show students the importance of the content at hand. Along with authentic instruction, teachers can use various strategies to help the students organize their thoughts and the information they have read. Authentic instruction is often defined by teachers and preservice teachers as being interesting, motivating, fun, relevant topics (Duke, Gates, Hall, Tower, 345). Simply this is a
Schön, who is one of the most influential figures of the movement of reflective teaching, is the first person who clearly puts forwards the concept of reflective practice as a critical process in refining one’s artistry or craft in a specific discipline in 1983. He points out that teacher as reflective practitioner “needs a kind of educational technology which does more than extend her capacity to administer drill and practice. Most interesting to her is an educational technology which helps students to become aware of their own intuitive understandings, to fall into cognitive confusions and explore crew directions of understanding and action.” Moreover, Schön (1983) identifies the distinction between reflection-in-action (during our teaching) and reflection-on-action (before or after our teaching). Richard and Lockhart (1994) stated that a reflective approach to teaching is one which teachers and student teachers collect data about teaching, examine their attitudes, beliefs, assumptions and teaching practices, and use the information obtained as a basis for critical reflection about teaching. In their opinion, reflective teaching is a useful way of exploring classroom processes and can promote teacher development.