ITL 602 Reflection

ITL 604-Beliefs and Values, Teaching Practices, and Knowledge Gained Reflection

Candidate Name: Veronica Wilkerson		Course: ITL 602	Instructor: Eric Fraunfelter		Date: 2019
#1 TPE and Element(s):  TPE 4: Developing as a Professional Educator. Element #5: “Promote student success by providing opportunities for students to understand and advocate for strategies that meet their individual learning needs and assist students with specific learning needs to successfully participate in transition plans (e.g., IEP, IFSP, ITP, and 504 plans.)	Activity, Assignment, Experience: Week 4 Infographic Fieldwork			Attach URL/PDF https://imdthefuture.blogspot.com/2019/09/so-you-want-to-teach-bad-kids.html
Affective: Beliefs and Values	Behavioral: Teaching Practices			Cognition: Knowledge Gained
Reading the TPE’s and researching the different types of collaboration have helped me understand that all student learn differently. There is no such thing as “Bad Kids”. There are only Kids that learn differently than others and sometimes, a traditional school experience is not conducive to them learning.	I conducted by field work at a special education mild/moderate school. They have a lot of alternative teaching practices that help their demographic of students learn. Each student has an “advocate” teacher who listens to them, individually and helps to tailor their learning experience to each individual student.			This class has helped me to begin my journey as an inspired teacher. It has helped me to recognize my weakness in judging that are “bad kids” are not bad, they only learn differently. As an inspired teacher, I should look for ways to help my struggling students instead of pushing them off to the side. I have to make sure that each student has the opportunity to learn in my classroom.