Standard 1 - Teaching Diverse students

Artifact description: This is a lesson plan that focused on finding the Median and Mean of a data set using skills learned prior. Students needed to find where a mysterious virus was spreading through the country and who was recovering and who was becoming a zombie.

Standard connection: This lesson fits the Illinois Standard 1, Teaching Diverse Students because I modified the activity to fit the needs of students. Not every student learns the same way, therefore modifying is necessary to make it fit to the needs of students.

Reflection: The virus x activity helped me understand the diversity of students by modifying the activity to meet my students needs . I highlighted somethings to make it more visual, I created sentence started to help students write their sentence and label so that students knew what data to look at. These small changes helped the activity to become fun and engaging.

Artifact description: This lesson focus was to practicing Arithmetic sequence by being able to identify what number is being added sequence through the form of a bellringer and independent practice.

Standard connection: This lesson demonstrated the Illinois teaching standard 1, teaching diverse student because this lesson was modified to meet the needs of my students by adding lines and letter “d” for the common difference.

Reflection: This was one of the first lesson I had to modify and change a little during student teaching to meet the needs of my diverse students. For example, I added 3 lines to indicate that I wanted students to tell me what the next 3 numbers on the sequence. I also wrote the letter “d” so that student would know that I needed them to find the common difference. All of this was done with a marker nothing fancy just small change to fit my diverse student’s needs.