Student Varied Approach

Knowledge of Students Varied Approaches to Learning: Students in the class are mostly social, auditory, and visual (spatial) learners. The students do well when the teacher goes through the book or lesson with the whole class. The students need a variety of examples and cues for comprehension. Writing examples on the board as well as prepared visuals put on the board help the visual learners. Group work and games help many of the students in the class understand the content. These students do well with learning a new concept when there is a hands-on activity preferably one that involves small groups. The students need ways to manipulate objects to understand concepts due to these students being in the latter part of the concrete operational stage of development. Students in this stage are logical thinkers and have a difficult time seeing things in the abstract sense. Some of the students are apt to raise their hands before other students, therefore using a Popsicle stick technique is beneficial to get whole class participation. Effect on learning The effect of learning with different learning styles changes instruction. Often, differentiating instruction is vital. Allowing for a variety of activities has a better effect on the overall learning of the class. The teacher has to be able to ask questions and give cues to students as that are needed with automaticity. The classroom needs to include visual displays and possibly an area to display student work. For example, the students AR points are displayed in the room at the back of the classroom. This motivates the students to continue reading. The school offers a nine week reward movie for students who do week each nine weeks. This provides motivation for positive student behavior. If learning styles are not considered in a lesson, some may fall behind which will change the course of lessons. At this age, students need a variety of lessons, therefore lessons need careful planning that provide students with many ways of learning is important in or students will get bored and learning will slow down or come to a halt. Knowledge of Student Skills and Prior Learning: Most of the students in the class are at grade level. There are a few students who fall below grade level in reading. These students are pulled out for tier intervention and special education. These students include CT, KC, JA, LB, and CS. The students took a STAR reading test at the beginning of the 2015 school year. The grade equivalent scores on the tests ranged from first to sixth grade. Seven out of 21 students scored on the fourth grade level. 10 of the students fell below the fourth grade level and four scored above the fourth grade level. The skills students are working on right now in reading/language arts are summarizing a story using the main idea and three or more details and using context clues to answer questions in a story. Students are also working on revising their writing and using the proper editing marks. Students are working on genres such as narrative nonfiction. They are learning how …show more content…
Nine of the 21 students in the class scored at or above grade level in math. 12 out of 21 students scored below grade level in math with seven students almost at grade level. Most students understand basic math commands such as addition and subtraction multiple digit problems. The skills the students are learning right now are multiplication facts, multiplication by tens and hundreds, and multiplying one digit by two digit numbers. Prior knowledge in math is multiplication concept, applying properties of operations as strategies, and rounding …show more content…
At Ravenswood Grade School, 86.4% of the students come from poverty, therefore time and money may be donated to help learning in the classroom. Due to the low socioeconomic status, students will need more teacher focused instruction instead of the mix of both individual and teacher focused instruction. Students may not get the help needed at home with school work and comprehension because parents and guardians may work multiple jobs or lack proper knowledge to assist their child with their homework. Instruction will need to be differentiated for the students with learning difficulties and who don’t get the extra help at