This past week I worked in the
preschool classroom at Brigham Elementary School in Unit 5. The preschool
classroom has an attendance of around eleven students. Although we did not know
it, this classroom is a bilingual classroom with students from different
backgrounds. These eleven students also each have their own varying
personality. In the preschool classroom we first played a “getting to know you”
game with the students. In this game we discussed what things we liked and
discovered whom else in our class liked the same things as us. We then moved on
to reading the class a book on the different kinds of things that scientists
can study. After the students finished listening to the story we had them
return to their tables and draw their very own scientist. We went around and
asked the students what their scientists were doing so that we could write it
on their papers for future reference. After the students had enough time to
complete their scientist drawings we asked each of the students to share their
scientist drawings with the other students in the class. The students had a
variety of things to share about their scientists. Once all of the students had
shared their drawings we reviewed with the class what types of things
scientists can research.
Before
going into the preschool classroom at Brigham I set a couple of goals for
myself as a future teacher who wants to grow. The first goal that I set for
myself was to learn how to better communicate class material to a group of
diverse students. The second goal I had set for myself was to gain experience
working with a group of diverse students. Although I wasn’t aware that the
group of students I would be working with this past week was so diverse, I was
part of a great learning experience with a diverse group of students. Before
entering the classroom this past week I also planned a few steps in order to
reach the previously stated goals. These steps include getting to know all of
the students as well as their learning habits. Another step I planed to take in
order to reach my goals was getting involved in the classroom. Looking back at
the goals I set for myself as well as the steps I put in place to reach my
goals. Although I did not get much insight into how to communicate material
better to a group of diverse learners, I did gain experience in working with a
group of diverse leaners. This experience was short, however every experience
helps. I did get involved with working with the students in this diverse
classroom as one of my steps stated. I also began the first steps of getting to
know the students. I did not get to know much about their leaning habits
although I am not upset about this based on the little time we had to work with
the students.
In order to
help benefit other teachers or others who are simply interested in the topic, I
have attached a link below to some tips for teaching a classroom full of diverse
students. Although this website does not give us all of the answers, it gives
us a glimpse of some initial things to implement in our classroom of diverse
learners.
Exceeds: I included a link of helpful tips for working with
a group of diverse learners. I also went slightly over the limit of 500 words.
