The competent teacher understands the diverse characteristics and abilities of each student and how individuals develop and learn within the context of their social, economic, cultural, linguistic, and academic experiences. The teacher uses these experiences to create instructional opportunities that maximize student learning.
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For this artifact, I researched teaching methods for Autism in secondary settings to create a presentation that would meet Standard 1 for IPTS. The presentation contains three teaching methods that can be used in a secondary classroom setting to help students with Autism. The three methods went over a basic overview of the method, how it can be applied, and why it is useful. I wanted to look into Autism at a secondary setting since there is a false preconceived notion that Autism is outgrown, so I wanted to find ways to help students that are in an older age group that might have previously been overlooked.
This artifact meets Standard 1 for IPTS because it shows that students learn in different ways and therefore, the response needs to be done in ways appropriate for the individual student. This artifact shows that students learn in different ways since there are multiple teaching strategies for teaching students with Autism that are uniquely different from one another. Standard 1 of IPTS states that a competent teacher must understand “how individuals develop and learn within the context of their social, economic, cultural, linguistic, and academic experiences.” This artifact meets this standard because it goes over how students with Autism learn and how to learn better in social settings, in cultural settings that conflict with a student with Autism’s needs, and how to help students with Autism develop language for vocabulary.
Through this artifact, I learned that students with Autism have a wide range of abilities and are each at different levels of the spectrum of Autism. This means that what may work for one student with Autism may not work for another student. I learned that students with Autism can develop their social skills through the way I teach classes and that by incorporating different senses into learning, it can help individuals learn the content better since it gets explained in a way that makes sense to them. This artifact will help me in my future classroom because it gives strategies to teach students with Autism so that they can learn and grow to the highest extent they can achieve.