Field Experience Refection

As stated in the InTASC Model Core Teacher Standards, Standard 3 addresses Learning Environments. The standard states: “The teacher works with others to create environments that support individual and collaborative learning, and that encourage positive social interaction, active engagement in learning, and self-motivation.” To me, the classroom environment is one of the most important things that can impact the student’s ability to learn and allow them to feel comfortable within their own classroom. I believe that it is extremely important to form a relationship with your students, and get to know each one of them before you can effectively educate them. By getting to know your students, you are not only getting to know them, but you are also …show more content…
In the assignment, I reflected on my experience in the grade level pk-2, and what I had learned about the collaboration that happen be hide the scenes, how the team of teachers and paraprofessionals communicated with each other, and also learned about the collaboration with the student’s Speech Language Pathologist. Throughout my field experience, I found out that during a regular school year collaboration was more hands on while during the extended school year the coloration was more be hide the scene. Overall, I gained the knowledge that collaboration is a very valuable resource for every teacher to use. Without other teachers, and service provides we would only use our perspectives, and would have no growth outside of what we already …show more content…
With this assignment, I gained the knowledge necessary to design and implement environmental and instructional adaptations to assist in supporting my student’s academic progress and appropriate behaviors. This assignment was challenging at times due to the severity of my student’s negative behavior, but throughout the class I gained more knowledge in helping to support my student by adapting the environmental and instructional needs of my student. As I worked on completing the Behavior Intervention Plan, I was challenged to first look at the antecedents that may evoke the student’s behavior, and how the consequence may be maintaining the student’s behavior. In this assignment, I found that each time my student would engaged in self-injurious behavior the activity would stop, and we would automatically give her a break. Although, throughout completing the behavior intervention plan, I came up with a replacement behavior that would give the student the same outcome of receiving a break, but requesting it with appropriate work