Greg Week 9

The final week! This was my last week at my first placement at a special education school. It was such a wonderful experience and I know that I will defiantly always remember what I learned from this placement. This week I did a lot of observations. I would relate my observations to stand number 2 Content Area and Pedagogical Knowledge. The competent teacher has in-depth understanding of content area knowledge that includes central concepts, methods of inquiry, structures of the disciplines, and content area literacy.  The teacher creates meaningful learning experiences for each student based upon interactions among content area and pedagogical knowledge, and evidence-based practice. This is because I was earning more about being a teacher. I saw different classroom. One room I was in for two days I loved it. The teacher does stations. I had never seen stations done and run so successfully. There were 4 stations fine motor, teacher station, speech, and leisure. I learned a lot about running a successful classroom from this teacher. That is why I feel that I was working toward standard 2, because I am become more competent in my content.

Since this was my last week all I did was observe and on Friday my teacher threw a party in the classroom and the school had a special movie day for a monthly reward. Over all this placement taught me a lot about teacher special ed. I would relate it to standard 1, Teaching Diverse Students. Teaching Diverse Students – The competent teacher understands the diverse characteristics and abilities of each student and how individuals develop and learn within the context of their social, economic, cultural, linguistic, and academic experiences.  The teacher uses these experiences to create instructional opportunities that maximize student learning. Because these student are different from each other in in the classroom even I learned a lot about differentiation specially During one lesson I would have to teacher to each of the 6 students in 4 or even 6 different ways. It was a wonderful experience.