3e:Demonstrating Flexibility and Responsiveness

“Flexibility and responsiveness” refer to a teacher’s skill in making adjustments in a lesson to respond to changing conditions. When a lesson is well planned, there may be no need for changes during the course of the lesson itself. Shifting the approach in midstream is not always necessary; in fact, with experience comes skill in accurately predicting how a lesson will go and being prepared for different possible scenarios. But even the most skilled, and best prepared, teachers will occasionally find either that a lesson is not proceeding as they would like or that a teachable moment has presented itself. They are ready for such situations. Furthermore, teachers who are committed to the learning of all students persist in their attempts to engage them in learning, even when confronted with initial setbacks.

Danielson, C. 2013

Artifact 3e-1

This was one of my writing conferences with an individual student I met with over zoom. We talked about her writing every week and how we could improve something new each time. I would always offer her an idea of what to write about for next time and then each week it was either what I could come up with off the top of my head or like focus on how I can best help her without knowing what she was going to come up with. It taught me that teaching is flexible and helps you focus on what a child can do and accomplish than such that you just want them to finish the worksheet so that you could move on. Being flexible with teaching or having a one on one with a student can help your students not feel pressured but also to fully see the importance of what can happen.

Artifact 3e-2

This is one of the sub plans that my mentor teacher left for the substitute and I while she was gone. It had everything that was needed to be done for the day. I had been there all week but I learned that with being a sub, not everything is done or the timing is just a little off. My teacher had me work on taking over the days while I was there and running the class. We reviewed the plans before she left and gave us an idea of what the next week was going to look like. During some of the lessons, I had to make some unexpected changes and alter the plans to best fit the students needs and pacing of what was needed to be taught. I learned to be flexible and figure things out which is something I hope to work on in my future classroom and each new year with different students.