positive impact on student learning
In this section of my portfolio you will find my Positive Impact on Student Learning assignment. For this assignment I chose to align it with my unit content focus, which was Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. The basis for instruction and analysis correlated with this novel and it focused on the Holocaust. The Holocaust is a topic that the students are going to learn in more detail in their Social Studies courses, however, since they are reading this young adult novel in Language Arts, I felt that they needed a strong background on the Holocaust in order to fully grasp the novel. Overall, the Positive Impact on Student Learning assignment proved to be a success. The performance of the students demonstrates that tremendous growth occurred, and that I am capable of having a positive impact on my students, regardless of their diverse learning needs. The results showed that if it is visible to students that I genuinely care about their academic success, they will be more likely to respond by making effort to learn and comprehend the content material, making for a positive experience within the classroom.