Standard 2
Student Learning, Growth and Development
The teacher candidate understands how students learn, develop, and differ in their approaches to learning. The teacher candidate provides learning opportunities that are adapted to diverse learners and support the intellectual, social, and personal development of all students.
American Revolution Perspectives: People of African descent
Alignment Statement
In this lesson students completed a WebQuest where they followed the story of one person of African descent during the American Revolution. They were asked to complete a graphic organizer on their person and then they were put into groups to teach their peers about their person. In this jigsaw activity each group of students then had to answer an overarching question together. This required them to make inferences and form an opinion based on the information that they researched and the information they learned from their peers. This lesson was multisensory and gave them the opportunity to work independently and collaboratively. In alignment with the standard this activity supported their intellectual needs by displaying information in a variety of ways, and used social interactions as a mode of instruction delivery.
Narrative Statement
It is important that students are not just learning from the teacher but rather from their peers. I have learned that sometimes peers can explain things to each other in a way that makes more sense to them or in a different way than I would. In the small groups each student was in they were able to take the information that they learned and communicate it in a way that made sense to them and their peers while also working together to critically think about a marginalized groups perspective.