Virtual Classroom Reflection

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1. Mark Diacopoulos Within chapter one, the virtual classroom observation video took place in a middle school setting. In this video, the teacher, Mark Diacopoulos, was teaching his students Social Studies. The first thing that stood out to me during this lesson was the fact that the Mr. Diacopoulos explained to the students the learning objectives of the lesson that they were doing. Even though I know that this is an important part in every lesson plan so that the students will understand what they are supposed to be learning, it is not something that is always included and it is often left out. I also noticed that Mr. Diacopoulos engaged the students in a varied of ways. First, he included everyone in the whole group discussion. …show more content…

The teacher, Maria Fenwick, discussed strategy ways in which she helps her students get ready for standardized testing. First, Ms. Fenwick discusses the use of open-response questions. Open-response questions are, according to Thewritingworkshop.weebly.com (n.d.). “a piece of writing that you produce after reading a passage or short story”. During open response questions, there will be a certain question that needs to be answered along with a place to provide evidence that needs to be supplied to support the answer (“What is an Open Response,” …show more content…

Differentiated instruction is used to meet the needs of every student in the classroom (Richardson, Morgan, & Fleener, 2012, p. 323). In the video, the teacher did this several different ways. First, she used graphic organizers for those students who needed visual aids and those that needed help organizing their thoughts. She also worked one-on-one with students that need that extra support. Lastly, she allowed students who have a hard time forming and thinking of ideas at the same time use a keyboard to save them

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