Domain D: Impact on Student Learning

Someone once told me 30 minutes with a kid can impact his/her life. As an educator,
whom the students will see daily, I will be making an impact to the students life daily. I will also
be the one providing them the mathematical content knowledge. I will be helping them develop
logical reasoning skills, persistence, being creative and flexible thinkers to get to a solution.
After taking all my educational courses, such as, SEDC 713, SEDC 723, MATH 620,
MATH 630, MATH 633, and MATH 635, I grew as a professional. I have learned different
strategies to teaching my content. For example: using manipulatives to represent some of the
abstract ideas in algebra like variables. Another example is having students conduct labs to
discover the mathematical formulas that are expected to be memorized by the students. I also
learned possible extension to make the mathematics a bit more interesting and meaningful or
relevant to our everyday life.
In addition, courses like SEDC 203, SEDF 204, SPED 708, and SEDC 220, helps me
better understand that every student come from different background and has their own story. As
a teacher, it is my job to check in with the students and providing as much support as I can to the
student, without expecting too little of the students. I also learned a bit more about the
psychology of the students at the adolescent age, which helped me develop more patience to
many of the actions that students do. These classes provided opportunities for teacher candidates
to share about their experience and how they can possible address the problems that may have
happened during our fieldwork experience.
Furthermore, courses like MATH 795.63 and STAT 614 has taught me how to incorporate
technology into my teaching. As the age of technology is growing, my growing knowledge of
these new programs will allow me to teach my students though exploration in these many math
software.

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Finally, SEDF 206 taught me how to assess students. This is critical in my professional
growth because it taught me to be very objective with what I am testing the students. It taught me
to be thoughtful in the questions that I select in the students exam. I will also need to be make
sure there is no other bias when creating the test, such as the am I testing their language or am I
testing their understanding of the content. If I am focus on understanding of content, I should be
as direct as I can be than making the problem wordy.
The artifacts for dimension 10 demonstrates my impact on student learning. There are
three lesson plans on adding and subtracting signed numbers. In addition, there are two pictures,
which is the quiz result from the same student, but one is better than another. The quiz with 2/10
is the students knowledge before the lessons on adding and subtracting signed integers. The
other quiz with score of 6/10 is the result after the adding and subtracting integer. The 4 points
difference demonstrate my impact on students learning because it seems that the student got a
better understanding of the material.
My personal growth from impact on student learning is a build on my determination to
build myself to be a better educator and better communicator or people person. Being able to see
the student understanding the material that you teach can be as rewarding as it is frustrating when
students forgets many of the things you teach them. As students learn more and more from other
resources, I feel that I must improve myself and build on to my knowledge to meet the students
high learning needs. Society will continue to become more advance, so if I do not keep up, how
can I educate the students of the future.
I also find myself having trouble getting to know someone well. To be a good educator, I
need to know my students: what works well and does not work well with them. If I am unable to
communicate with them well, I will never get an opportunity to get to know my students better.

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Being an educator is more than communicating with only students. I would have to communicate
with the administration and students parents. I would have to work with them in coming up with
a plan that works for the students. The teamwork can also help with building great game
changing goals for the students. This can only be accomplished through better communication or
being a more understanding person and learning how to adapt to the situation along with making
the right calls. Professional growth might be the way I speak with the other adults who are
affiliated with the student.
Every action that I make as an educator can impact the students learning. It all starts
from lesson planning, executing the lesson plan, and learning from the results of the lesson plan.
Personal growth will be I get a lot of practice in being a reflective person and constantly asking
myself, what worked, what did not work, and how can I improve.
My student teaching professor from SEDC 795 said If you ever have a moment, where
you think you do not need to tweak your lesson plan, then you should consider having a career
change. I agree with her quote because each year we have different students and they all have
different needs like I have learned in my SPED 708 class. If there are no changes to the lesson
plan, then we are sort of assuming the students are all the same, when they are not.
Every moment I spend with my students will be an impact. Whether it is a positive or an
negative impact depends on how well I prepare myself for my students. Based on the three
dimensions under dispositions: respect for others, dedication to teaching, and commitment to
professionalism, I believe I making progress in preparing myself for my students.