This instructional setting takes place in a small rural community at a mid-size charter school. Students attend this charter school to receive a non-conventional education, where they are more involved in their own education. It takes place in a fifth-grade classroom with eighteen students, one ELL student, two with an IEP and two behavioral students. Throughout an average school-day a teacher encounters numerous challenges. This paper will discuss two of the major challenges I face daily as a teacher in this instructional setting.
One of the many challenges I encounter daily is keeping the students engaged and focus on the concept at hand. There could be several reasons a student is off tasks. One being, the student lacks the essential …show more content…
I have found in my years of teaching the having visual aids, written instructions and verbalizing the instructions greatly helps the ELL students. Now, you are giving them three different ways and chances to understand and interpret what is expected of them. I found once I started using visuals in particular, understand and comprehension was higher and test scores began to rise as well. In the article, Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners, it states that you should use visuals that reinforce written or spoken language (Maurer, 2017). The next challenge I face daily in the classroom is numerous learning styles. Students learn in multiple ways and education isn’t one size fits all. While one student may thrive when you teach visually another may struggle to learn anything visually. Teaching is almost like a juggling act, but which elements should you juggle? When I was a first-year teacher I envisioned myself at the front of the classroom talking with my diligent fifth-grade students who were quickly taking notes and absorbing every word I was speaking. After my first day as a teacher that dream came to a screaming halt and I had to rethink my whole teaching approach. I have discovered that on average, most students either learn well visually, auditory, or kinesthetic or a mix of two or three of these. That is
One of the many challenges I encounter daily is keeping the students engaged and focus on the concept at hand. There could be several reasons a student is off tasks. One being, the student lacks the essential …show more content…
I have found in my years of teaching the having visual aids, written instructions and verbalizing the instructions greatly helps the ELL students. Now, you are giving them three different ways and chances to understand and interpret what is expected of them. I found once I started using visuals in particular, understand and comprehension was higher and test scores began to rise as well. In the article, Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners, it states that you should use visuals that reinforce written or spoken language (Maurer, 2017). The next challenge I face daily in the classroom is numerous learning styles. Students learn in multiple ways and education isn’t one size fits all. While one student may thrive when you teach visually another may struggle to learn anything visually. Teaching is almost like a juggling act, but which elements should you juggle? When I was a first-year teacher I envisioned myself at the front of the classroom talking with my diligent fifth-grade students who were quickly taking notes and absorbing every word I was speaking. After my first day as a teacher that dream came to a screaming halt and I had to rethink my whole teaching approach. I have discovered that on average, most students either learn well visually, auditory, or kinesthetic or a mix of two or three of these. That is