4.3 Diversity, Cultural Understanding & Global Awareness
Candidates model and facilitate the use of digital tools and resources to support diverse student needs, enhance cultural understanding, and increase global awareness. (PSC 4.3/ISTE 5c)
Artifact: ELL Lesson
Reflection:
In ITEC 7430 the ELL lesson was conducted. This experience took place in my 2016-2017 second grade class. Two students from my class worked with me on using Microsoft Word to learn how to write reading responses. The reading response required them to show their knowledge of the author’s purpose, retelling the story and describing the main characters in the story. One student was an ELL student and the other was a native English speaker. I completed mini sessions with the students in the morning and afternoon for about 30 minutes each session for five days. I used a variety of recourses, modeling, “I do, you do”, RAZ kids, and more to teach the students. After completing the experience I assessed both students. The ELL student was able to retell the story but had trouble with typing up her ideas. The English native also could retell the story but was able to give more detail and she was able to better type out her ideas.
This artifact demonstrates mastery of this standard, because I used digital tools and resources to support the learning needs of both my ELL student and my native English student. I picked the resources and strategies based on the learning needs that I already knew about the students.
This experience taught me the importance of finding multiple ways to teach the same thing based on student needs. It also showed me the importance of finding appropriate tools to help ELL students and help them succeed in the English based classroom. If I could do anything different with this experience, I would have used more students (boys and girls, more ELL students and more native English speakers) and I would have conducted the experience for more than five days.
This experience impacted student learning. It impacted me as a student learning and perfecting my craft as a teacher and with learning ways to use digital tools to help my students in their learning. It also impacted the two students who received extra instruction and practice with the online tool that I was teaching them.
In ITEC 7430 the ELL lesson was conducted. This experience took place in my 2016-2017 second grade class. Two students from my class worked with me on using Microsoft Word to learn how to write reading responses. The reading response required them to show their knowledge of the author’s purpose, retelling the story and describing the main characters in the story. One student was an ELL student and the other was a native English speaker. I completed mini sessions with the students in the morning and afternoon for about 30 minutes each session for five days. I used a variety of recourses, modeling, “I do, you do”, RAZ kids, and more to teach the students. After completing the experience I assessed both students. The ELL student was able to retell the story but had trouble with typing up her ideas. The English native also could retell the story but was able to give more detail and she was able to better type out her ideas.
This artifact demonstrates mastery of this standard, because I used digital tools and resources to support the learning needs of both my ELL student and my native English student. I picked the resources and strategies based on the learning needs that I already knew about the students.
This experience taught me the importance of finding multiple ways to teach the same thing based on student needs. It also showed me the importance of finding appropriate tools to help ELL students and help them succeed in the English based classroom. If I could do anything different with this experience, I would have used more students (boys and girls, more ELL students and more native English speakers) and I would have conducted the experience for more than five days.
This experience impacted student learning. It impacted me as a student learning and perfecting my craft as a teacher and with learning ways to use digital tools to help my students in their learning. It also impacted the two students who received extra instruction and practice with the online tool that I was teaching them.