The competent teacher has foundational knowledge of reading, writing, and oral communication within the content area and recognizes and addresses student reading, writing, and oral communication needs to facilitate the acquisition of content knowledge.
This lesson plan was lesson one for the week and when students were learning new vocab. I used "varied instructional approaches to develop the students' word knowledge, vocab, comprehension, and fluency" from the time the students got the vocab list to when they were writing them in their assignment notebooks. In the lesson, I have the students get their lists and then we go over how to say each of the words. Students also go over the different meanings of the suffixes and what each of the words means. Then students cut out their words and sort them on their desks. Next, they write their words in their assignment notebooks and their vocab packets. If they finish early then they go onto Spelling City to start practicing their words. Students go through many different approaches to practice their words and this is only Monday. These different methods are focused on knowledge indicator 6A.
Something that I learned when creating this lesson was that my students need more support than what they were being given before. They are not practicing at home so I have to double the studying and work at school so that they can match up and do as well as I would like them to.
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The homework above is from module five of the math unit that I was getting to teach at the beginning of student teaching. One student had said that his homework was extremely easy and I could tell because he came up to me and asked for a harder set of homework. Each student gets the same level of homework but I wanted to create something for him to show that he had a high level of understanding of the material. I used the homework as a guide and created an adapted version of the homework but with more challenging fractions that he would have to list and compare and contrast. I was able to "modify the material to match his content need at the time" such as what is talked about in the knowledge indicator 6G.
Something that I learned is that my students are asking for harder work and that they see this as easy. They are more than capable of the work as long as they can listen and understand what they need to do. When it is visual and not a lot of instructions to read, my students do better most of the time.