D629
The Reflective Practitioner
(Western Governors University)
TASK 1
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Task 1: Identifying Opportunities for Professional Growth
Introduction: I am in my second year of teaching kindergarten at a title one school in Colorado
Springs, Colorado. This past school year I had 18 students in my class, 10 boys and 8 girls. I had
two students who were ELL and spoke Spanish at home and English proficiently at school. I had
two students on IEPs for speech. I had 3 students with high behaviors.
A. Summary of Lesson
Grade level: Kindergarten
Content area: Math – Eureka Math, Module 4 – Composition and Decomposition. (Great
Minds. 2024).
Instructional strategies: The first instructional strategy I will use is modeling. The second
strategy I will use is hands-on learning.
Assessment strategy:
The assessment for this module is observational. For the first part of the assessment,
students will have a blank number bond in front of them, some unifix cubes, a dry erase marker,
and a math picture of birds in a tree. Some birds are big, some are small. Some birds are flying,
some are sitting. Some birds are brown, some are white. Students will be asked to tell me the
parts they see in the math picture, then fill in the number bond to match. Then they must tell me
what each part tells us about (part, part or whole). Students can use cubes, numbers or pictures to
complete the number bond.
In the second part of the assessment, students must use the same tools as before, but this
time they are to listen to my math and fill in the number bond just from listening.
The last part of the assessment includes placing 5 puzzle pieces that are shaped like
squares and triangles into one larger square. Then students must count the number of parts and
write the number. (Great Minds. 2024).
The Reflective Practitioner
(Western Governors University)
TASK 1
, 2
Task 1: Identifying Opportunities for Professional Growth
Introduction: I am in my second year of teaching kindergarten at a title one school in Colorado
Springs, Colorado. This past school year I had 18 students in my class, 10 boys and 8 girls. I had
two students who were ELL and spoke Spanish at home and English proficiently at school. I had
two students on IEPs for speech. I had 3 students with high behaviors.
A. Summary of Lesson
Grade level: Kindergarten
Content area: Math – Eureka Math, Module 4 – Composition and Decomposition. (Great
Minds. 2024).
Instructional strategies: The first instructional strategy I will use is modeling. The second
strategy I will use is hands-on learning.
Assessment strategy:
The assessment for this module is observational. For the first part of the assessment,
students will have a blank number bond in front of them, some unifix cubes, a dry erase marker,
and a math picture of birds in a tree. Some birds are big, some are small. Some birds are flying,
some are sitting. Some birds are brown, some are white. Students will be asked to tell me the
parts they see in the math picture, then fill in the number bond to match. Then they must tell me
what each part tells us about (part, part or whole). Students can use cubes, numbers or pictures to
complete the number bond.
In the second part of the assessment, students must use the same tools as before, but this
time they are to listen to my math and fill in the number bond just from listening.
The last part of the assessment includes placing 5 puzzle pieces that are shaped like
squares and triangles into one larger square. Then students must count the number of parts and
write the number. (Great Minds. 2024).
