Field Work task 3

Task 3-

I observed in a fourth grade classroom, at this age of development children are growing cognitively, socially, and morally. Ms. R said she liked to teach her students the skills they’ll need to be successful in all areas. She thinks one of the best ways to teach this is allow them to learn from each other. She uses the child development characteristics in her lesson which includes using multiple intelligences to count, talk about with partner and talking through different problems. This uses Gardner’s Theory using the linguistic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. Allowing the students communicate with each other allows them to learn and collaborate with one another. Ms. R uses Zone of Proximal distance in her lesson to give students confidences to do work and then slowly backing off so they can do what they can on their own. She said that students are on all different levels of developing so it is so important to learn about your students and what they can do and what they need help with in planning your lessons. If children are developing similarly you can group them and allowing them to work and build off each other. Depending on the assignment she will group stronger students with students a little behind to learn and work together and build positive peer relations.