Nt1310 Unit 1 Assignment

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What is the competency: Creating lessons plans in a special education classroom a variety of components must be taken into consideration to support students learning. According to Preliminary Credential Competency Checklist (2014), Instructional Implementation Competency 4.7, when teaching a lesson to student engaging students in their learning by incorporating different teaching settings by using different methods to teach the new information (p. 7). Teaching a new lesson to students can have challenges when students are at different learning levels. Creating small group instruction instead of whole class, can give the needed attention students need to comprehend the material. An alternative setting will be individual instruction for students …show more content…
Knowing students had the skills to create 3 sentences taking the next step of teaching them how to develop a topic sentence. When teaching the topic sentence, I first began with whole class instruction with an outline of what components should be in a topic sentence. During whole class discussion, students were engaged in conversation on how to create a topic sentence based on the given information from the given topic. With the whole class, the students and I organized the information to create a topic sentence. To assess student knowledge of creating a topic sentence I changed the word organization and read the new sentence out loud to get an informal assessment of how students were creating a topic sentence that made sense. Taking notice some students were having challenges, students sat with a classroom paraprofessional to give them the additional support to help them create a topic sentence. Some students worked with a partner or were able to work independently to create their topic sentence. Measuring the student development on how to create a topic sentence was challenging for some students but multiple exposure for a couple of days did help students give a more sense of