During my student teaching placement, I worked closely with three students to track their development and frame my teaching strategies around their needs. One student, Daniel, was a high performing students, whose writing exhibited a lack of focus and a struggle with using appropriate vocabulary. By the end of my unit, Daniel's writing had substantially imrpoved and his expression more accurately reflected his ideas. The second student, Ana, was a middle-performing student with an IEP. Ana excelled at group work and took on a leadership role in when completing group activities. Her writing and reading comprehension exhibited a lack of connection to the text and very surface-level conclusions. I worked with her to organize her thoughts and write with more text-based grounding. My last student, Isaiah, was a low-performing student, as administered with an IEP. He struggled with reading and writing, as well as a debilitating fear of class participation. Through my conferences with him, Isaiah was able to write a research paper with great improvements, and present a mini-lesson on a text of his choice (on which he earned a 95!)
To learn more about my work with these three students, please visit my impact report: