1. I think that this technology will support my teaching strategies because by implementing technology into the lesson, the teacher is able to reach more students. The use of technology is interesting to students and is very popular, so it is obvious that some students will learn better with the use of it.
2. Effectively using technology would support the students understanding of the subject by teaching to each students strengths. Every student learns differently, and with technology, you can easily differentiate instruction. Students who are highly visual and linguistic learners would benefit from watching videos on the smart board, whereas students who are highly kinesthetic learners would learn better by playing games that get them up and moving. Technology can easily enhance students understanding of the subject by teaching to what the students are interested in.
3. My strategies including writing on the smartboard, having google slide shows that include animation, and the use of videoing students while reading. While using these technologies, I would also effectively interact with the students in order to ensure student comprehension. By writing the words out on the smartboard and sounding them out with the students, I would be effectively engaging linguistic and visual learners. By having students do the "drive through" method of sounding out words, I would also be teaching to kinesthetic learners. The only thing I would have changed, would be to incorporate a pre- and post assessment off of the lesson by playing a technology game with the students.
4. Students of different ages and backgrounds would more than likely have different backgrounds and different levels of prior knowledge, in regards to sounding out words in spoken words. In order to see where each of the students are at, I would activate prior knowledge by making the content relatable. I would then conduct a pre- assessment to see where the problems areas are, and where the lesson needs to take off from. As far as motivation, it would be most difficult to encourage students to be motivated if school is not viewed as "important" in the home life. One way that I would help tackle this situations is to try and make learning fun.
5. My main instructional strategies included google slides and writing on the smart board. Writing on the smart board would be my main way of delivering content to the students. This strategy can be completed in several different ways, some ways incorporate a lot of student involvement and some ways do not. In order to ensure that students are motivated and engaged in the instructional process, I would personally like to implement the approach that involves the students more. This would include having students come up and be the student helper while sounding out the sounds in the words, and also standing up to interact with the teacher. The google slide would be my way of practicing the content that was just learned. When I made my google slides, I types up some highly spoken words for grade school students and covered up either the initial, medial, or final sound in the spoken word. I told the students that the word on the slide had to correspond with the picture presented as well. Then the students as a whole, had to sound out the word to try and find out what letter sound needed to be used for the letter that is covered up.
6. Different classroom management strategies that would need to be implemented would definitely include behavioral management. If there are students present in the class who have difficulties managing their behavior or students who are ADHD, certain precautions would need to be implemented to ensure optimal classroom functionality. For students who having hearing or vision impairments, these particular students will most likely be seated in the front of the classroom.
7. The use of technology would enhance the instructional process for the students by being able to use demonstrations, models, displaying definitions, and displaying illustrations. In my opinion, it would clearly enhance the instructional process by straying away from the typical instructional process that just includes a lecture and worksheets.
8. One way that students practice segmenting the initial, medial, and final sounds in the spoken words would be by using the google slides with animations. The google slides include words that are frequently spoken in the grade school years, and pictures that correspond with these words. The words have a colored block that covering either the initial, medial, or final sound in the word. Once the students, with the teacher, sound out the word, the students are to say whatever letter sound is missing. Once the say what letter sound is missing, the teacher will then click the mouse to reveal if the students were correct or not. The use of animations would not be done as easily with technology, If I would have thought of it, I would have enjoyed to incorporate an online, interactive game because that is something that students can not experience without technology.
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