Promoting a Positive Learning Environment

What lesson(s) are displayed in the movie clips? By lesson plan number, identify the course or lessons.

Lesson 1 and Lesson 2, which are centered on the solar system, are the lessons that are being presented.

Think about the instances in the videos where you fostered a stimulating learning atmosphere.

How did you encourage students to participate in learning while demonstrating mutual regard for, rapport with, and responsiveness to students with varying needs and backgrounds?

This was accomplished by making sure that every pupil participated fully in the educational process. As a result, regardless of their disabilities or personal struggles, the students were questioned and urged to engage in class activities. Engaging Students in Learning

Refer to examples from the video clips in your responses to the prompts.

Explain how your instruction engaged students in developing an essential literacy strategy and related skills.

The students were involved in practical activities of focusing on the solar system and providing an interpretation of their own. Further, the students had to draw the solar system in accordance to their understanding of how it should appear in society.

Describe how your instruction linked students’ prior academic learning and personal, cultural, and community assets with new learning.

The students had to use their past understanding of what is the solar system and link the same to the current class activity of understanding and evaluating the nature of the solar system.

4. Deepening Student Learning during Instruction

Refer to examples from the video clips in your explanations.

Explain how you elicited and built on student responses to promote thinking and apply the essential literacy strategy using related skills to comprehend OR compose text.

Students were asked questions to check on their ability of comprehending the presented concepts from the class work.

Explain how you modeled the essential literacy strategy AND supported students as they practiced or applied the strategy to comprehend OR compose text in a meaningful context.

Modeling involved physical engagement of the students in the literacy work and understanding of the presented concepts.

5. Analyzing Teaching

Refer to examples from the video clips in your responses to the prompts.

a. What changes would you make to your instruction-for the whole class and/or for students who need greater support or challenge-to better support student learning of the central focus (e.g., missed opportunities)?

There would be editing and presentation of additional visual materials and audio works, which will help in improving the understanding process of the students on the learning process.

b. Why do you think these changes would improve student learning? Support your explanation with evidence of student learning AND principles from theory and/or research.

They will ensure that the students have a chance to grasp the concept as they are presented by the tutor in the classroom.