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The teacher understands how children with broad ranges of ability learn and provides instruction that supports their intellectual, social, and personal development.
 * Teachers know how children grow. **

** Evidence 1: [|GehrkeJasonFinalPaper.rtf] EDT 652 Final Paper: Seeing Learning and Schools in the Future of Technology **

Rationale 1: This paper was written to get a better understanding of what education and student based learning may look like with the exponential growth in technology as explained through Moore’s Law. With the writing of this paper, I was able to get a better look at the way education needs to change in order to keep up with the shift and to meet the learning needs of our students. As technology changes, we see businesses adapting but our educational systems continue to fall further behind. With the exponential growth, it is important to hypothesize what we may need to do now to prevent our students from falling further behind in a high tech world. This paper really allowed me to look at the future of education and see that we could be endangering our students’ chances at staying on top of the game in the work force if we don’t have the means to properly train and equip them with what is needed. Our students need to have access to the state of the art technology that is relevant to learning and preparing them for the future. The overall student impact on learning came from understanding what is considers safe vs. unsafe. If they are not trained now, they may miss out on numerous opportunities. As an educator, I realize that finances will always be a hindrance in helping our students gain access to the tools they need to succeed in a highly competitive world. KSD

2.K.2 The teacher understands that students’ physical, social, emotional, moral, and cognitive development influence learning and knows how to address these factors when making instructional decisions.

As an educator, I am able to see what my students need to be successful day to day in the classroom but I also understand what is needed for their future to complete in a global market and economy with our peers around the world. As I see my students grow academically and even physically, socially, and emotionally, the need to keep them at a high level of understanding is important. We need to use the materials that we have to continue to push forward to acquire other materials and technology needed to help impact our students to thrive and allow for a bright, successful future. When understanding the students’ needs, I am better able to go out and find resources, materials, and hopefully hardware and software to impact the needs at all of the various levels of learning.

2.S.3 The teacher assesses students’ thinking and experiences as a basis for instructional activities (i.e., encouraging discussion, listening and responding to group interaction, and eliciting samples of student thinking orally and in writing).

Before writing this paper and even after, I have always listened to my students talk with one another and even to me to hear what they feel their needs are in education. I may have been in third grade but students at that age discuss the future and what they think they may like to see or have when they are “grown up.” With listening to those conversations and writing this paper for the benefit of my students and other students, I am hopefully able to understand what the students know or need to know in order to be a success in school. I even assess the students in the computer lab informally as they use the computers. Based on what is seen and what I found through this paper, I try to change my teaching to meet the needs of students, even if it is in a differentiation in a subject or two to start. Meeting the overall needs of every student is key to their future success.

2.D.2 The teacher is disposed to use students’ strengths as a basis for growth, and their errors as an opportunity for learning.

Through listening to student conversations and holding group discussions and collaboration times, I take what they students want/need and formulate lesson plans and activities to spark further interest for the students and to also help meet them all where they currently are. Each student has his/her strengths and weaknesses and we need to build on both of them to help them succeed in a changing world. As technology changes, so do our strengths and weaknesses. New materials and programs come out that we all need to adapt to. This gives students a chance to mentor their peers when they can celebrate a strength and help a peer turn a weakness into a strength. It is also important to show students that teachers are humans and also make mistakes. Turning our mistakes and errors into teachable moment is an important and meaning opportunity for everyone involved.