Standard #3: The teacher understands how students differ in their approaches to learning and creates instructional opportunities that are adapted to diverse learners.
I understand there are different learning styles, and I will be able to create lessons to use students' strengths. My instruction will need to accommodate the needs of both developmentally challenged and gifted students. I understand, and will use a variety of techniques to help English language learners. I believe all children can be successful and I work to help them do this.
Artifact eleven is a collection of my work from "The Trans- Amazon Expedition" with the Wilderness Classroom Organization. I participated in the third stage of this expedition where, along with five other expedition members, I paddled a canoe on the Amazon River from Manaus to Belem (approximately 1,000 miles). We were in internet contact with over 10,000 elementary and middle school students along the way. We created a virtual field trip for students by posting journal entries, photographs, podcasts, interviews, short movies, and surveys and questionnaires for students. In addition to our web site, there was a curriculum, written to Illinois state standards, to help teachers incorporate the WCO into their daily classroom activities.
The Wilderness Classroom focuses on giving students different media to learn through. Every day my team and I posted journal entries and photographs - good for visual learners, podcast - for audio learners, and all our information was found buy navigating our website - for kinostenic learners. All the information on the WCO web site is fun, colorful and appeals to a wide audience.
Artifact seven is several articles from "ADDitude" magazine. "ADDitude" is a magazine focused on living with, and overcoming attention deficit disorder. A major section of each issue is titled "Just for Teachers." The articles I have chosen focus on writing, math, and classroom management.
This magazine series is an example of additional resources that are available to me to support my work with diverse students. By incorporating the sorts of activities listed in the articles, I will be striving to adapt learning to students in the classroom as a whole.
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