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// Standard 3 // = Teachers understand that children learn differently. = The teacher understands how pupils differ in their approaches to learning and the barriers that impede learning and can adapt instruction to meet the diverse needs of pupils, including those with disabilities and exceptionalities.

Evidence 1: //"Hello Georgia" iPod Unit Lesson (604) //

Rationale 1: //"Hello Georgia" is an iPod Unit Lesson used as part of our kindergarten literacy curriculum. The lesson, although not actually taught yet, provides students with the opportunity to interact with students in another part of the country (in this case, Georgia). As we work through the long winter months of the second half of the school, students need extra motivation to do their daily writing. This lesson provides motivation and novelty, inspiring new ideas to students' work. "Hello Georgia" not only exposes students to new and different forms of technology, it allows them to interact with the actual technology as they work through the lesson. The lesson gives me reason to stay abreast of iPod technology in an educational arena, and it allows the children to express their learning and communication in various, appropriate ways. Students not only learn about children in a different location through the medias of video, voice, writing, and drawing, but it also provides motivation to practice the literacy skills to become better readers and writers while they are communicating with their friends across the country.//

KSD: 3.K.4 The teacher understands how students’ learning is influenced by individual experiences, talents, and prior learning, as well as language, culture, family and community values. //Many children in my class do not travel. Most have never been outside of the county, much less out of the state. I believe it is important to experience what life is like in other parts of the country/world to understand that people have differences and similarities no matter where they are from. This lesson allows the children to experience another culture and use their talents and learning to apply it to the world, books, and themselves.//

3.S.7 The teacher brings multiple perspectives to the discussion of subject matter, including attention to students’ personal, family and community experiences and cultural norms. //What better way to bring a new perspective into the classroom than to bring another part of the country into the classroom. Students are able to learn about each others personal, family, and community experiences via the podcasts, while at the same time reflecting and representing cultural norms for their respective locations.//

3.D.1 The teacher believes that all children can learn at high levels and persists in helping all children achieve success. //Taking on the challenge of looking at life through another's eyes, especially another who is across the country, to understand the other's culture and experiences requires a high level of thinking. This lesson allows me to hold each student to the standard of high level learning while also letting me adapt the material and requirements to meet each child individual needs for success.//