Advisory Meeting #2

Content:

What i the most effective way a 3rd grade teacher can help lower performing students on their districts test?

A 3rd grade teacher can help a student succeed by making lesson that play to the students strength.

1. Teaching lessons with more visuals, For example a math lesson taught on an overhead so students see.
2. Taking a small pretest that asses the students strengths (intelligence) then presenting activities or project that would correspond with most common strength in the class.
3. Giving students options on how they want to do a project. For example the students could write an essay, do a PowerPoint presentation, record a video or create a visual art all about what ever they are learning.

Peters, Laura C. "Teachers Help Students Succeed by Using Multiple Intelligences Theory in the Classroom." Virginia Commonwealth University Training and Technical Assistance Center Newsletter.

Deangelis, Tori. "Helping At-risk Students Succeed." Http://www.apa.org. American Pyschological Assiciation

This will help students grasp material easier because it is learned in a way that mostly makes sense to the child.

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

• For my next Independent Component I would like to stay with my mentor and continue to observe her and the class. I would also like to see how she teachers students with learning disabilities. I would also like to learn the signs when a student is doing poor in class because they are not understanding the material or if it is something more like Dyslexia or another disorder. 

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

• I plan to take as many pictures as possible. This is because I don't know how else to show proof of the 30 hours.

3.  And explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.

• Up to this point I have only researched things that a common student would have trouble with. I would like to research now different learning disabilities that students might have and how to teach and help these students.

4.  Post a log on the right hand side of your blog near your other logs and call it the independent component 2 log.

Blog 14: Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
  (a) Statement saying: “I, student name, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.” I only have 20 hours
  (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component
• MY Mentor is Mrs. Smith at Cortez Elementary School
  (c) Provide a digital spreadsheet (aka log of the 30 hours).   Post it next to your mentorship log. 
• What I have completed is helping around the 
• INTERPRETIVE 
  Defend your work and explain how the significant parts of your component and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  
  
• When I worked with the kids I found that certain students had different ways of learning.  When I say worked with them, I mean when I would help them with their class work or homework. For example I would tutor this boy with his homework and any time their was a short story to read he would get distracted.So that was when my EQ changed from finding out  what would make a teacher a good teacher to my EQ now which is more about helping the students more than gauging a teachers greatness.
• APPLIED
  How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. 
• It has helped me understand that teaching especially little kids isn't easy. Watching my mentor I now see how much patience is truly put into her job. When I researched I would find articles about concrete methods that would help students "learn" better but from Mrs. Smith I learned that because every kid is different those methods are not so concrete, and sometimes have to be tweaked to fit the class.