Student Reflection Case Study

Moreover being in a second grade classroom, I feel that one instructional practice that really benefits the students in my classroom is repetition. They often times need to observe or practice something multiple times before they are fully in understanding. For example, every week the students are assigned a series of twelve new vocabulary words that they practice every day for twenty minutes a day through various activities, along with practicing them at school they are encouraged to practice them at home. At the end of the week the students have a quiz on those vocabulary words. However, through the words being full of repetition my teacher puts importance on making the curriculum have a advanced insight and helps the students gain confidence …show more content…
However, when he is in a small group with some of his classmates, my student tends to be distracted and get almost none of his work done. The point system that my teacher uses really works on my student because when he receives good behavior points it motivates him to keep on what he is doing and when he hears the sound of him losing points it acts a form of classical conditioning because he immediately reacts to the sound by changing his behavior that is causes him to loose points. My teacher has done a good job in really understand each individual student in her classroom and has individual changes that she feels is necessary for each student. The students have adapted to this in understanding that not every student needs the same classroom structure or teaching that they need to be successful. However, I feel for my student is meeting benchmarks in all of his assessments my teacher, occasionally not give as much individual attention as she does with the students who are advanced or students who need further support. This often times has me worried because although my student is successfully performed, oftentimes I notice some parts of his learning that may need assistance