For my technology plan I used google presentation. I created a lesson for rhyming in kindergarten. Through my experience in both my classes and teaching kindergarten, the kids love things shown on my projector. So, there are links to some rhyming games and the book is read on YouTube as well. I hope to use this lesson with my students in the future as we continue to work on rhyming.
As a teacher in an elementary school, one way that we can improve students learning is by decreasing the class sizes. I have been teaching for 8 years and my class sizes have ranged from 15-22 in that time. The years that my class sizes were between 15-18 I felt like I could target each students' needs more. When my class size was 19-22, I felt very overwhelmed and did not feel I taught my students what they "needed" as well as I should. So, decreasing the class size rather than increasing it would benefit our students learning.
A second thing I think would help our students learning is to not put so much stress on a standardized test. I learned in many of my education classes and workshop I attend now that not all students learn the same. So, why are we expecting ALL students to pass the same type of test. In kindergarten the students are being over tested, in my opinion, and it is keeping us from truly teaching them what they need in order to be successful in school. As a teacher, I see how much stress we add to our kids with these tests as well. I was a good student in school, took AP classes and graduated in the top 10% of my high school class. However, I had friends who did just as well as I did, but because they could not pass a standardized test, they had to attend summer school and delay their graduation. Is this really fair to our students? Standardized tests are not a true picture of what the students know and it is causing teachers to "teach to the test" rather than give the students skills they need to be successful later in their education or lives. So, putting less stress on standardized tests would help our students education as well.
Kristen Downs
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