Learning from Field Summary
Learning from Field Summary
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Successful teachers understand how to develop young children’s mathematical thinking while continually assessing student learning to inform instruction.
For this assignment, work with your mentor teacher to identify two K‐3 grade teachers from different grade levels to observe teaching a math lesson. After the observations, interview each teacher about how he or she uses assessment data in planning math instruction.
Include the following questions in your interview:
- What types of assessment do you use to determine the needs and interests of your students in relation to math instruction?
- How do you differentiate math instruction to address students’ diverse learning needs?
- What formative assessments (formal and informal) do you use during math instruction?
- What summative assessments do you use to determine student achievement?
- How do you make accommodations in assessment and testing conditions for students with language barriers?
Use any remaining field experience hours to assist the teacher in providing instruction and support to the class.
In 250‐500 words, summarize and reflect upon our observations and interviews. Reflect on how you could implement what you learned into your future professional practice.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.