Artifact # 2
Inquiry Project Presentation it informs teachers of meeting the needs of diverse learners in a classroom. It gives a brief overview of several behavioral disorders that you as a teacher may encounter and different ways to deal with these disorders. The project was designed to help me communicate information in an orderly fashion in front of an audience.
Rationale for the Artifact: Inquiry Project Presentation
Competency 13.2: "Use media and technology to support learning for children with special needs. "
Competency 13.3: "Use media and technology to support learning for children whose primary language is not English."
Competency 13.4: "Use appropriate local, state, and national services or resources to meet diverse learning needs through technology ."
Context:
I created this artifact during block of my senior year. This artifact
was developed to teach others of different types disorders among students.
I worked in a group of five creating our project on behavioral disorders,
which focus mainly on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). The other three groups worked on things
such as ESL (english as a second language), Title I, and cognitive disorders.
I used Microsoft Power point to create an outline for our in class presentation.
It provided others with a vague outline of the disorders and how to treat
them at home and in the classroom.
Impact:
As a future teacher, I will be licensed to teach grades K-6 in North Carolina
and from this project I will be more aware of the behavioral and learning
disorders that I am going to encounter within my classroom. I gained
an in-depth understanding of certain learning disorders and giftedness and
the respective curriculum adjustments that must be made for each.
Alignment:
The inquiry presentation aligns with competency
13.2
- it allows me to use media and technology to support those students with
special needs. Through this I researched different areas in order to
learn more about children with special needs.
This artifact aligns with competency 13.3 - it allowed me to learn more about ESL, which will help me to meet the needs of those students whose primary language is not English. I am also aware that there are many web sites online that will act as translators for letters and important documents, that may need to be sent home to those parents who can not speak English. These are a few of them www.freetranslation.com and www.englishlearner.com .
This artifact aligns with competency 13.4 - it made me aware of local, state, and national services that can help meet the needs of diverse learners within my classroom.
The inquiry presentation also aligns with INTASC principle 9 - it allowed me to assess my teaching and my students learning. Learning how to assess myself and to become reflective of my teaching will help me to become aware of my strengths and weaknesses, which will allow me to continue to grow and learn. This will help me to grow professionally within the learning community.