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In period two, I will have 35 students. Of the 35 students I will have two students in which are Talented and Gifted (TAG) and four students that are on Individual Education Plans. For many classes that I have viewed in the past this class has very few individuals who are in need of differentiated lessons or instructions. With this in mind, I will need to accommodate with the four students who are on IEP’s and the two students who are in TAG. This means that I will need to possibly change my instructions so that it follows the plans of my IEP students. Also, I will need differentiated instruction for my TAG students so that it allows them to access different levels of thinking.
I know that many of my students participate in extracurricular activities. I know that a few are in the marching band, a couple play baseball, and a few are in their won bands. This provides me a great resource, this gives me the chance to reach out and give these students their own way to connect to the material. I want to provide them documents, readings, paintings, or music that helps them connect to the material I will be covering.
One way this will influence the way I teach is that I will need to differentiate my lessons to more advanced and also to students who may have some learning disabilities. I think that with the small numbers of students who have either and IEP or are in TAG will help me be clear and concise with my directions and also allow my students questions to reach higher levels of thinking for all of my students.
I believe that by having the two students that are in TAG, it will force me to push all of my students a little harder to develop higher levels of thinking. I think that when students are presented with the option to think more in depth on a topic while still being intrigued it will leave an opening for all to exceed theirs and my own expectations.
And with the few students who have IEP’s in my class it will force me to elaborate and make sure that my lessons are thought out and have detailed instructions. Depending on each of their IEP’s I will adapt my lesson to their needs. There is not a student out there, that with better instructions can succeed further than with less quality of directions.
The only recommendation that I have is to ask your cooperating teacher if you can look at the IEPs in more detail. My cooperating teacher let me look at the summary sheets that he gets that have the accommodations on them and it was very enlightening.
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