Quality Standard 2: Teachers establish a safe, inclusive and respectful learning environment

for a diverse population of students.

● Element c: Teachers engage students as individuals, including those with diverse

needs and interests, across a range of ability levels by adapting their teaching for
the benefit of all students.

My second lesson was on a new

concept of making an equation true
and making sure each side of the
equation is the same. This is the first
lesson that I taught and also
witnessed where the majority of the
students did not understand the
concepts. During the lesson when I
ask for group participation and have
them answer questions with me,
many students were not on task and
there were a lot of side conversations
during the lesson, because they did
not understand the concept. After
direct instruction I go around to
check in on how students are doing
and if they understand the lesson.
Every table I walked to explicitly told me they were confused or did not know what to do. I
had to evaluate how I was going to expand the lesson and help with their understanding. I
first though about having them stop their independent work and as a whole class work on
some problems together, but I decided that many of the children needed more one-on-one
support. So, I went to table groups and worked in small groups with the students. Together,
we did problems so they were getting immediate feedback and were able to talk about each
problem with me. I noticed after working with students one on one they were able to do more
problems on their own. Some students, however, did not get it at all and these were the
students that have been behind all year. I wish I was able to do this lesson again the next day
since many children did not understand to see if re-teaching would help or if I needed to
change how I was explaining the concept.