Student Learning Objectives
SLO #1
Students will be able to describe developmental and sociocultural contexts that impact education, including how history, institutional practices and circumstances impact educational equity.
Education is impacted by things like socioeconomic status, race and gender identity, and these circumstances have impacted education greatly in the past. Throughout college, I have learned a lot about discrimination in schools and the search for an equitable learning place. As a future educator, I want to take the new practices and theories that I’ve learned inside and outside of the classroom and incorporate them into the classroom to make for an equitable learning environment. Developmental and sociocultural contexts should be utilized and acknowledged in the classroom to help students progress. All students should be treated on the same level with the same energy given into granting them a good education.
Artifact #1: Looking Towards the Future of Educators
This artifact comes from my Educational Psychology midterm, where I was about to explore how education is impacted in terms of sociocultural contexts. I wrote about how I saw history and institutional practices affected my predominately white school district and how these white school districts are taught about racism and discrimination. My main goal of the short essay way to find ways to change the school system so that we could reach educational equity.
Artifact #2: Translanguaging Perspective of Literacy
This artifact talks about how the concepts of American education are progressing past the historical views of conformity in school to make an equitable classroom for students of different background. This response advocates for multilingual students and how they an utilize their knowledge of different languages inside of the classroom. Every student has a voice that needs to be acknowledged by the teacher. I feel that this is incredibly important to include in my classroom so that I can make an entirely equitable environment for them.
SLO #3
Students will demonstrate understandings of the developmental stages of children and adolescents, of a variety of models of cognition, and of how each of these can be connected to effective teaching and learning.
Students grow and change very much throughout their years in school. It is important for educators to recognize and understand the different developmental stages of their grades that they are teaching to help them find ways to teach effectively and allow students to get a good grasp on the content their being taught. Because I plan to teach high school students, that does not mean I should not understand their development before high school and how they got to this point. It’s important for all teachers to understands their students development to help effectively teach. There are many different phases to consider that students are experiencing.
Artifact #1: Cognitive, Language and Language Development
This artifact breaks down each theorist and their development stages and how they relate to education. Cognitive development is important in terms of learning and education. This artifact explores how these stages matter in terms of a student's comprehension, learning styles and behavior within a classroom setting. When I am a teacher, I will utilize this knowledge to gauge my students capacity to learn.
Artifact #2: Developmental Stages and Assets
This artifact came from Introduction to Developmental Psychology class, and it allowed me to explore how the developmental stages affect children in terms of social life and education. I explored these stages and how they affected me, personally, along with how they affect children in general. By further elaborating on this assignment, I was able to explore how these stages are connected with effective teaching and learning, while I will be able to think about as a future teacher. This information will help me understand my students.
SLO #5
Students will know how to share something they have accomplished with others and to think of service as related to the active promotion of social justice.
Social justice calls for an equitable environment between an individual and society. It’s important to reach for equity in a classroom setting. This SLO is relevant to me because in the future, when I have career as a teacher, I will strive to give each student a way to accomplish their goals or succeed in the classroom.
Artifact #1: Promoting Social Justice in the Classroom
Due to a lack of personal assignments that fit into this SLO, I found this article that breaks down how students can strive for an equitable learning environment by promoting social justice within the classroom. It explains that teachers should actively encourage students to acknowledge social injustices they notice because it is teaching them to be advocates for equity and fairness inside and outside of the classroom, which is something that I will incorporate into my future classroom.
Artifact #2: The Purpose of Education
In this artifact, I wrote an essay that reflects on how students and teachers can acknowledge social injustices within in a classroom and how they can work to create an equitable learning environment for students of different backgrounds and learning styles. As a future educator, I plan on utilizing this essay to help create a safe and engaging environment where students feel they have equal opportunity.
SLO #2
Students will demonstrate understanding of the historical and present structures of education and the significance of schools as a cultural institution within a larger system of power.
The structures of education have changed and advanced over time. The purpose of education has always been the same, but how we teach and what is taught has changed greatly. Historically, certain cultures have been greatly catered to in the school system, which did not benefit everyone as needed, so this needed to change. Now, present day, scholars and future educators are working to make for a more equitable learning environment for all types of students. This SLO is relevant to my future because I want to teach in an equitable environment that is still able to benefit from the historical structures of education, as well as the present.
Artifact #1: Education Through My Cultural Frame of Reference
This artifact is called "Education Through My Cultural Frame of Reference," and it explores how education is impacted in terms of culture. In this essay, I started with my own experiences in a predominately white town and how that kept my high school from an equitable learning experiences from people of different cultures. Then I go more into how schools can change and promote a more equitable and fair way of learning and how teachers can evolve from the historical norms of education, which is something that I plan to work on when I am teaching in the future.
Artifact #2: Education Around the World
This is an article that I found that explores the school as a social institution. It talks about how schools vary based on income and resources and how the students are affected from the differences in each system. As a futre educator, it is my goal to grant students the education that they deserve, whether it be in a low or high income school. Lack of resources makes for a difficult learning environment, but I plan on working to grant all students the formal and informal education that they need.
SLO #4
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the ways learners’ personal, family, and community assets and cultural norms can be accessed and should be used to foster educational equity.
A student’s life outside of school is greatly impacted by cultural norms involving personal, family and community assets. It is important for educators to take these traits that their students have developed outside of school and attempt to utilize it when educating so that they are all granted equal opportunity to flourish in the classroom. As a future educator, I feel this SLO is relevant to be because I strive to foster educational equity in the classroom and this reminds me that I will need to take every student and their home lives into consideration when trying to help them excel as a learner.
Artifact #1: Literacies and Languages
This PowerPoint breaks down the different literacy and language practices children learn within their home compared to in the classroom. It explains how important it is to acknowledge that a student's home practices may be different from the classroom, so to make for an equitable learning environment, educators need to cater to these different styles of literacies and languages until each student has fully come to understanding how these practices function within a classroom.
This artifact is relevant to my future career because I will now be able to take my knowledge of different theories and practices into account when teaching.
Artifact #2: The Purpose of Education
This artifact explores how students of different backgrounds are at risk of not receiving a proper education due to unfair treatment. In this essay, I talk about four students who have learning disabilities and their struggles within the classroom. Struggling students oftentimes do not get the education they deserve because they cannot keep up with the other students. Here I explain how to grant equal opportunity for each student through spending extra time with the student in need or through tutoring services. Each student deserves to be treated fairly and to have the same chance for success. As a future educator, it is important that I help students who struggle in the classroom. This artifact teaches me what to do and what not to do when students are struggling.
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