Standard 5 - Instructional Delivery – The competent teacher differentiates instruction by using a variety of strategies that support critical and creative thinking, problem-solving, and continuous growth and learning. This teacher understands that the classroom is a dynamic environment requiring ongoing modification of instruction to enhance learning for each student.
Check out my Flipped Classroom where I created a lesson on acknowledging one's emotions through Prezi and then recorded through Screen-o-Matic.
Following the lesson take the quiz that I made through Google Docs. Good luck!
The Flipped Classroom is a lesson that I created based off of The Zones of Regulation. The reason that I chose this lesson is because my desired grade level is a K-1 Special Education classroom and social skills are still going to be developing. Since the audience is younger and typically will have a lesser attention span I chose to add more images and less words. The same can be said about my quiz; I found that it would be more appropriate to use visuals to represent their knowledge of the topic.
This project helped to create a better understanding of Standard 5 as well as bring me closer to meeting the Standard because it has allowed me to become more open minded in terms of technology in the classroom. Prior to this course, and this project in particular, I did not see the need of adding lessons through the use of technology. My reasoning behind that was due to the fact that technology, like iPads and Promethean Boards, have shown to be more of a distraction in the classroom that I currently work in. However, creating a Flipped Classroom and showing it to a select group of students in the classroom furthered my ability to provide "ongoing modification of instruction to enhance learning for each student". Although a Flipped Classroom or online instruction is not for every student, it did prove to be successful for some. As a future Special Education teacher I am going to need to constantly change lessons and plans to aid to the certain abilities so this was a great lesson to learn and witness the advantages first hand.
Creating this Flipped Classroom has taught me a lot about the many uses of technology in classrooms. I was a bit apprehensive thinking about creating a virtual lecture intended for children between the ages of 5-7, nonetheless a Special Education class. However, I loved creating a lesson and then being able to "teach" it. I was actually so excited about my Flipped Classroom that I selected a couple of the students that I work with who I knew would have the right attention span to watch the lesson. I was thourougly impressed with how much they were able to learn from it and how much they enjoyed it. Although I do not think that I would ever primarily rely on a Flipped Classroom I do believe that I will be able to integrate it into my class lessons in the future.
This is a lesson plan that I created during my first student teaching placement in Fall 2022. This was a joint lesson with both the Speech Language Pathologist and Occupational Therapist and therefore worked on three developing skills: communication, functional mathematics, and functional life skills. During this cooking class, the students were practicing the dollar up method to purchase items from a recipe while using their chosen form of communication and creating that recipe and eating it with adaptive utensils.
This artifact aligns with knowledge indicator 5E which states that a teacher "knows techniques for modifying instructional methods, materials, and the environment to facilitate learning for students with diverse learning characteristics". Each student was given a value amount that algined with their IEP goal and skill level. Some students had exact dollar amounts up to $5 while others had mixed dollar amounts up to $15 dollars. Student's also were given recipes with visual indicators to match to the correct food item they were purchasing and each item was pre-programed in their AAC device and practiced with the SLP. Adaptive utensils were also provided to promote independence when preparing and eating the food.
This lesson was one that really made me practice whole group differentiation and I had every student in mind for each activity and step created. Whole group activities were a goal in this particular placement. Even though each student had different abilities for functional academics and life skills, a whole group lesson was still able to be created with various individualized supports offered.