It promotes motivation through tracking student progress, and helps students stay engaged. If a teacher wanted to promote motivation, they could use charts or activities in both group and individual settings to create reflections on lessons, so students can easily identify what they have learned or gained from a topic.

9.1: Setting a weekly goal for the classroom, assign reflection assignments for students every so often, at good checkpoints in the course. A survey before the course begins may also be beneficial, informing the teacher of each student’s strengths and weaknesses, and preferred way of learning.

9.2: Send out reminders via email about assignments, promoting group work to help students develop social skills, have a reflection about said group work to indicate how well each group think they did, as well as give them an opportunity to reflect. Be open to supporting students or sending them in the right direction.

Me and my parter talked about how growing relationships between students. We said this could look like putting students in table groups. I mentioned how my high school history teacher would put us in groups like this by combing desks and we would create a flag and each table would be its own country. He even made it where the countries would compete for points during the semester and we would win these points by answering questions or winning jeopardy when we would study in class for tests.

Encourage creativity and playfulness when learning because it’s just as important to development as anything else. Through sensory play, exploration, etc. everyone enjoys different things. It will also help keep the learner involved.

Standard 9.1 looks like teachers setting goals in the classroom to manage emotions in the classroom. Increasing on task instructions and eliminated distractions, and encouraging activities and instructions to build students confidence.

Activities that encourage self reflection would be useful in the classroom to meet this standard