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The competent teacher plans and designs instruction based on content area knowledge, diverse student characteristics, student performance data, curriculum goals, and the community context. The teacher plans for ongoing student growth and achievement.
School in the Netherlands
School in the Netherlands
These are a few photos from my time studying abroad in the Netherlands. While I was there, I took an education course and completed observation hours in a Dutch primary school, in addition to teaching a few lessons.
This connects to standard 3C) understands cultural, linguistic, cognitive, physical, and social and emotional differences, and considers the needs of each student when planning instruction; because I was able to deepen my understanding of other cultures.
During this time I learned about the cultural differences between school in the Netherlands, and school in America. I also learned how to adapt my teaching to teach students who spoke English as a second language. We taught a lesson to Group 7-8 (ages 11-12) and the students spoke some English and we spoke some Dutch, so it was interesting to communicate. The most stark difference I noticed was in the preschool-aged classroom. There was a heavy emphasis on play-based learning, and the children went outside for recess 3 times a day, even when it was cold out.
Group 5-6 (ages 9-10)
Group 5-6 (ages 9-10)
Students doing their daily work
Group 1 -2 (ages 4-5)
Group 1 -2 (ages 4-5)
The students were learning about Vermeer's painting The Girl with a Pearl Earring and then painted their own version
Biking to School
Biking to School
We biked 30 minutes to the next town over to get to our school
Mini Unit
Mini Unit
This is a mini unit with 3 lesson plans that is centered around Van Gogh's artwork, and the integration of emotion into creating art through the use of colors. The goal at the end of the unit is that students will have painted a self-portrait in the style of Van Gogh, and also write an artist statement regarding color choice and emotions portrayed.
This mini-unit connects to standard 3I) creates short-term and long-term plans to achieve the expectations for student learning, because it contains both daily lessons (short-term) and long-term objectives that are met through each lesson, so that at the end of the unit, students have a complete understanding of Van Gogh's art, and how to show emotion in art.
When writing this mini unit, I learned how to connect standards and objectives over multiple days. Previously, I had only written 1 day lesson plans, so the mini unit helped me think more long-term, and ensure that the goals for each day were scaffolded and built on each other to ensure students were adequately prepared by the time they got to the project.
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