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TED 690
Telling My Story
M’Laura Yates
6/9/2019
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Abstract
This is a reflection of my journey thus far as a teacher and how my experiences relate to
experience within my classrooms over the past 3 years that I will reflect on including
Achieving Competency
supporting all students in learning. Multiple subject candidates must demonstrate the
ability to scaffold the State Standards and provide rigorous instruction in Reading,
Writing, Speaking and Listening, and Language. Lessons should connect subject matter
to real-life contexts and provide active learning experiences through the use of a variety
have taught in a classroom full of diverse learners and have learned many different ways
to reach all students. Through the observations and evaluations by my site administrator
and my University Support Providers, I have received much positive feedback about the
differentiation I provide during lessons. Each lesson comes with its own set of
difficulties, depending on the range and abilities of the students. In order to make the
content understandable and accessible for all students I must constantly reevaluate the
town and the schools I’ve taught at. I have also taken many relevant courses and have a
learners. This also helps with the area of understanding and organizing subject matter for
student learning and planning instruction and designing learning experiences for all
students. One of the areas I achieved significant growth in this year was creating and
maintaining effective environments for student learning. It was quite a change moving
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from a private school to a public school this year and I think one of my deficiencies was
large class management. This year I had an average of 29 students with many different
types of learners. By the end of the year I had really grown in classroom management
and my ability to teach multiple types of learners and pinpoint the areas needed for
growth. I continue to need more strength in the area of assessing student learning. There
are many computer programs where I can track the students’ degree of learning. I am
learning how to progress monitor students who are at a high risk for failure and which
organized system of tracking students’ progress and data through AimsWeb, which is
very helpful. Another area I would like to grow in is differentiating instruction more
often for my gifted students. I had many different activities for these students that were
extensions of what my average students were completing, but I’d like to brainstorm and
come up with more engaging activities that are different from each other. I find after a
while that many of the extension activities seemed to have the same theme and the gifted
Potential Competencies
One of the main areas I would like to focus on in Domain A is the area of writing. I think
my students were strong writers for narrative and informative writing tasks, but they had
a hard time with the opinion writing. I need to reach out and collaborate with more
experienced 2nd grade teachers through our grade-level professional learning community
transitions within each of the writing performance tasks, but especially the opinion
writing task.
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Rationale
in engaging and supporting all students in learning is a lesson plan I developed for my 2nd
grade students to learn to use Place Value. The feedback I received from both my site
administrator and my NU Support Provider was very positive. The students were all
engaged and there were multiple levels of learning being achieved. The 3rd artifact I
attached is a literature review about an article detailing how to use the views of students
to help promote inclusion in education. This is an important issue because under certain
conditions, these conversations between students and teachers can help stimulate actions
that promote inclusion in ways that can serve all learners. The last artifact I am attaching
is a video of me teaching the place value lesson I detailed above. This is useful evidence
Reference
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