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Friday, October 23, 2015

Meeting the Students' Needs


This week we learned about how to assess students in your classroom and plan instruction according to the needs of those students. We broke up into our groups in our class and designed a poster to help illustrate how a teacher can meet the students’ needs within their classrooms. I really feel that this activity helped to bring the lesson to life. I love being able to work with others to learn. I feel that I gain more when I am able to teach but also learn from my classmates. I learned this week that, overall, the teachers really do put the children in their classrooms first. Even if they have their classroom set up a certain way, they really need to think about accommodating their room to meet the needs of their students. For our poster we drew a boy that illustrates a student in need of help. It is hard to see on the picture, but he is standing on a foundation of “assessments” since this is the first step in knowing the needs of your students. As you move up the picture, you will see there are many ways to help the child based off of the results of the assessments. You might want to change the way the classroom is managed. This can be anything from moving the desks, time management, to changing the materials that are used. Each of these actions, will help to ultimately help “turn on the light” for the student and help them to learn in the best way possible. I hope that I will be able to remember this in the future as I teach children. Maybe I will not be a professional teacher, but I know now that it is always best to keep the child’s needs first.

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