TPE 9 Summary

Throughout my entire internship, I Constantly trained, supervised my

paraeducator in order for him to be as successful as possible in the
classroom as well as used him to help my students so they could be
successful. Most of the time, it appeared as if we were co-teacher because
my instructional assistant would chime in and help students without being
told to. During the first week of school, I met with my paraeducator and went
over the responsibilities and duties I expected of him. This was helpful
because it led to an open communication between the two of us and no
doubts about what I expected. This enabled everything to run smoothly in
my class. I also prepared and gave him cheat sheet ring to help him
proactive strategies, potential reinforcements, prompt hierarchy, classroom
reminders, and the four reasons for behaviors.

As an intern and Educational Specialist it was also important for me to make

instruction comprehensible and meaningful through differentiated lessons
based on students experiences, interest, linguistic and cultural background
and developmental learning needs. One example of this can be seen in the
unmodified and modified differentiated catapult research papers. General
education students were expected to complete a two-page research paper.
However, students with different needs, whether due to a disability or
language abilities, were given the modified essay in order to make the
assignment meaningful and comprehensible for every student. I also wanted
each student to be challenged at their individual zone of proximal
development. This differentiation of this assignment allowed every student to
complete the assignment and get something out of it. Next, are the two
introduction videos I picked based on what I learned about my students
interests in order to engage them in physics and make it meaningful to them.
The one video shows different activities that my students were interested in
such as, dancing, skate boarding, bike riding, surfing, playing the piano, the
sound waves heard when listening to music and more. The second video
talks about what physics has done for the students lately including the
technology used in their cell phones. Because both of these videos linked to
the interests of my students, these videos got my students extremely excited
about physics. The last piece of evidence on this page was included to make
instruction meaningful and comprehensible to the many many football lovers
in my class. I found a NFL video that discussed inertia and how it worked in
football. This enabled my students to learn about their interests and through
their experiences of playing football with their friends.

I made instruction comprehensible and meaningful based on my students

experiences, linguistic and cultural backgrounds by incorporating by
incorporating Dia De Los Muertos into my classroom. This was such an
amazing experience. The entire school was asked to participate, but only
some classes decided to participate. I was so happy I decided to participate.
Including my students cultural background in my class enabled me to learn
so much about my students and had my students more engaged than I had
ever seen them before. They were so excited to do a class circle map with
me to share what it was that day of the dead is, what it meant to them, and
how each kid celebrated. My students were at the edge of their seats calling
out things that their families did. This was an amazing experience that I think
I will incorporate into my class every year regardless what subject I teach. I
specifically did a day of the dead circle map, played YouTube videos on the
day of the dead, created an alter for the dead, and had my kids made candy
skulls. We ended the week with a Day of the Dead celebration where we
celebrated our friends and family who had passed. This was a week long
experience that every single student in my class thoroughly enjoyed.