3c Engages students in learning. The second Conceptual Framework Principle states that the teacher understands how children learn and develop and provides learning opportunities that support their intellectual, social, and personal development. The teacher must know and understand the different levels of psychological development and know where their students are with these development stages. I am teaching a College Prep Algebra I class right now. My students are at different levels of development.
Some students are at a higher level than others are.
It s difficult to accommodate all students. If you make the instruction more abstract for the abstract learners, you will lose the concrete learners. If you make the instruction more concrete for the concrete learners, you will lose the abstract learners from boredom. Finding that happy medium is one of the many trials of teaching. One of the two artifacts included is a worksheet I administered to my class.