4.3 Diversity, Cultural Understanding & Global Awareness
Candidates model and facilitate the use of digital tools and resources to support diverse student needs, enhance cultural understanding, and increase global awareness. (PSC 4.3/ISTE 5c)
Artifact: ELL Lesson
Reflection:
The artifact chosen to demonstrate mastery of Standard 4.3 Diversity, Cultural Understanding & Global Awareness, is the ELL Lesson Report. The ELL Lesson Report reflects on the application of an Internet Lesson Plan with English Language Learners. The task integrated resources from the IRIS Center and WIDA Consortium, along with results from ACCESS testing for consideration of diversity for English Language Learners. This artifact was completed during the Spring Semester of 2020, in ITEC 7430- Internet Tools in the Classroom. It was completed individually.
This artifact demonstrates mastery of Standard 4.3 Diversity, Cultural Understanding & Global Awareness, by showing my ability to model and facilitate the use of digital tools and resources to support diverse student needs, enhance cultural understanding, and increase global awareness. The ELL Report is a reflection and log of the process used to design learning opportunities, using digital tools and resources, that supports diverse student needs. It models the use of a variety of assessment resources and data to facilitate student learning based on student abilities and interests. In creating it, I brainstormed ideas that would allow me to create personalized and differentiated opportunities for the EL learners. I considered their learning modalities, cultural backgrounds, and interests and designed a student choice board to allow them to make decisions about their learning process. I used digital tools to enhance cultural understanding through student interaction and collaborations. By personalizing each student’s learning experience and empowering them to decide their path to success through digital resources, students can connect to the outside world, thus increasing global awareness. By encouraging them to embrace technology, students become more engages in the learning experience and they gain knowledge and skills that will advance them in a technology-driven society.
During the completion of this artifact, I learned about the resources that teachers have at their disposal to help make informed decisions about students. I was not previously aware of some of the reports available in Powerschool, but through this experience, I learned to use information available, in conjunction with classroom assessments and observations, to more appropriately tailor learning to student needs. This experience helped me to better understand the importance of considering student diversity, culture, and global awareness. If I were to change one thing about the process involved in creating this artifact, it would be to extend it’s tijmeline to include a unit of study rather than a lesson. I believe it would be a more powerful experience if I were to have followed the students’ advancements beyond that week. I did continue to work with these students through the end of the semester, but I did not continue to log/reflect on the process, their learning, or my own. That is what I would change.
The work that went into this artifact positively impacted faculty development and student learning. The ELL Lesson Report documented my growth in the role of an ESOL teacher or coach to utilize data resources and design learning opportunities for students. I was able to enhance student learning by presenting an authentic, meaningful path for empowering students to take charge of their own learning through personalized and differentiated activities.
The artifact chosen to demonstrate mastery of Standard 4.3 Diversity, Cultural Understanding & Global Awareness, is the ELL Lesson Report. The ELL Lesson Report reflects on the application of an Internet Lesson Plan with English Language Learners. The task integrated resources from the IRIS Center and WIDA Consortium, along with results from ACCESS testing for consideration of diversity for English Language Learners. This artifact was completed during the Spring Semester of 2020, in ITEC 7430- Internet Tools in the Classroom. It was completed individually.
This artifact demonstrates mastery of Standard 4.3 Diversity, Cultural Understanding & Global Awareness, by showing my ability to model and facilitate the use of digital tools and resources to support diverse student needs, enhance cultural understanding, and increase global awareness. The ELL Report is a reflection and log of the process used to design learning opportunities, using digital tools and resources, that supports diverse student needs. It models the use of a variety of assessment resources and data to facilitate student learning based on student abilities and interests. In creating it, I brainstormed ideas that would allow me to create personalized and differentiated opportunities for the EL learners. I considered their learning modalities, cultural backgrounds, and interests and designed a student choice board to allow them to make decisions about their learning process. I used digital tools to enhance cultural understanding through student interaction and collaborations. By personalizing each student’s learning experience and empowering them to decide their path to success through digital resources, students can connect to the outside world, thus increasing global awareness. By encouraging them to embrace technology, students become more engages in the learning experience and they gain knowledge and skills that will advance them in a technology-driven society.
During the completion of this artifact, I learned about the resources that teachers have at their disposal to help make informed decisions about students. I was not previously aware of some of the reports available in Powerschool, but through this experience, I learned to use information available, in conjunction with classroom assessments and observations, to more appropriately tailor learning to student needs. This experience helped me to better understand the importance of considering student diversity, culture, and global awareness. If I were to change one thing about the process involved in creating this artifact, it would be to extend it’s tijmeline to include a unit of study rather than a lesson. I believe it would be a more powerful experience if I were to have followed the students’ advancements beyond that week. I did continue to work with these students through the end of the semester, but I did not continue to log/reflect on the process, their learning, or my own. That is what I would change.
The work that went into this artifact positively impacted faculty development and student learning. The ELL Lesson Report documented my growth in the role of an ESOL teacher or coach to utilize data resources and design learning opportunities for students. I was able to enhance student learning by presenting an authentic, meaningful path for empowering students to take charge of their own learning through personalized and differentiated activities.