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**Standard 2** ** Teachers know how children grow. **  The teacher understands how children with broad ranges of ability learn and provides instruction that supports their intellectual, social, and personal development.


 * Evidence 1:** Innovations of Education Final Paper

While researching for the “schools of the future” paper for the Innovations in Education course, I realized that schools are slowly beginning to change, but need to continue to change at a faster pace to fit with the needs of our current society. Schools are still stuck in the Industrial Age; separating all of the subjects and keeping students together according to age rather than ability. Technology is the gateway to the schools of the future. As mentioned in my paper, students need to have access to technology at all times while learning so that they are able to access information when it is needed and complete things at their level of understanding. The technology allows students to all attain the instructional goals, but at the level that they can understand and complete the tasks. The technology also lends itself to eventually going to an integrated classroom where the students do not all have to be the same age and learn the same subject at the same time. The use of technology also fosters a classroom where the teacher is more of a facilitator than a lecturer.
 * Rationale 1:**


 * KSD**
 * 2.K.3 The teacher is aware of expected developmental progressions and ranges of individual variation within each domain (physical, social, emotional, moral, and cognitive), can identify levels of readiness in learning, and understands how development in any one domain may affect performance in others.**

In this paper I reflected on how none of my students are at the exact same level of development in all of the domains at the same time. I realized through writing this paper that it would be very beneficial for the students to not be grouped into classes according to age, but rather according to the developmental levels of the students. The students should also be allowed to then move in and out of “groups” for each domain depending on their developmental progression. However, because schools are not operating in this manner just yet, the integration of technology is a must. Technology allows students to be more creative and gives them the ability to do some things they way that they will be most successful in progressing developmentally because of the vast variety of ways to do one thing with technology.


 * 2.S.3 The teacher assesses students’ thinking and experiences as a basis for instructional activities (i.e., encouraging discussion, listening and responding to group interaction, and eliciting samples of student thinking orally and in writing).**

As mentioned in my paper, technology is the way of the schools of the future and students today already have many experiences with technology. This experience helps foster instructional activities such as online discussions and group chats. My students enjoy discussing online because they can do it somewhat on their own time and they don’t feel as embarrassed to “talk”. My students also enjoy other online learning activities and having the computer available at their beck and call in my classroom because they can attain any information immediately when it is needed as I discuss in my paper.


 * 2.D.1 The teacher appreciates individual variation at each developmental level and shows respect for the diverse talents of all learners, and is committed to help them develop self-confidence and competence.**

Having individual variation at each developmental level makes the classroom much more interesting and fun because it makes it very easy to integrate technology and use it to differentiate. The interactive technology also helps the students develop self-confidence because they are used to using some type of technology on a daily basis. Competence levels often increase as well because the students enjoy using technology and are engaged in the lessons. As I mention in my paper, schools of the future will hopefully have a computer for each student to interact with at any time so this can all be possible for all teachers without relying on the availability of computer labs.