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September - October Consider: As teachers we are given a classroom filled with students who are at varying levels of co…
September - October Consider: As teachers we are given a classroom filled with students who are at varying levels of cognitive, social-emotional, and behavioral development. Every student provides the teacher with unique challenges and opportunities with which to grow.
Foundation: NBPTS Core Propositions - Proposition 1: Teachers are Committed to Students and Their Learning
PLEASE ADVISE ME ON PROPOSITION 1 -- with your fundations on this aspect.....
Task:
New Teachers (1st and 2nd year): Your first task is to choose two students from your classroom who provide diverse challenges. In your team, discuss their unique abilities (socially, emotionally and cognitively) and how, as a teacher, you can best capitalize on this knowledge to build educational experiences for them (and all your students). With your mentor teacher and your team, consider the following questions as you discuss the needs of these students and develop a plan of action:
What do you want the selected students to learn and/or what growth in social-emotional or behavioral development is required?
How will the student’s abilities impact your teaching strategies?
How will you know if/when the student demonstrates successful growth levels? How will the student know?
What will you do if they are not successful?
How do the plans for these students, impact the plans for all your students?
Mentoring Teams: The result of this initial work should be a narrowing of needs that will be addressed within the team. (Be realistic about the limited time and nature of our network.)
A statement of need by each 1st and 2nd year teacher in the form of a question that they need team collaboration to address, will best focus the work of the team and of the assigned mentor.
Keep in mind, that the team conversations are private to team members only.
