My Capstone Audience

9/2/2019

The audience that I would want to attract for my capstone would be teachers and educators that specifically are looking for ways to keep students engaged that work with a large group of varied learners such as advanced/low students or mixed grade classes who want an alternative from busy work and worksheets.
I think my audience would also include classroom teachers that struggle to manage finding the "medium" when teaching lessons or activities where either their students find it very easy or very difficult.
By providing lessons and ideas that are inclusive where students start a task that is based upon their individual need and skill set, therefore completing the task at the same time so "early finishers" are not engaging in disruptive classroom behaviors.

3 Comments

Alexis

9/8/2019 09:08:43 am

I agree with who your audience will and should be. I like your driving question and action research project that focuses on student engagement. Often, General Education teachers rely on Special Education staff members to address behaviors and being off-task that occur in inclusive learning environments. I wonder if your audience can include administrators and support staff members (i.e., paraprofessionals, yard duty, and others) that work with students in other learning environments outside the general education classrooms?

Warm Regards,

Lisa Marie Smith

Karling Skoglund

9/8/2019 01:22:57 pm

Alexis,

As I also commented to Lisa Marie, I think I am an ideal candidate to be one of your audience members as well. The difference in ability in my 6th grade classroom might not be as diverse as your combo class, but after teaching my current group for 4 weeks now, I am aghast by the variety of knowledge and levels of math proficiency in my classes of 30. The difference between some of the extremes are 6 grade levels.
This is a situation in which I need to differentiate, and I think I am doing better now that I am integrating more self paces flipped classroom strategies, but I am still seeing some of my proficient students spending too much time waiting for others before we move onto the next subject. Your research directly addresses a main classroom management issue that plagues teachers and students and solves the problem of disruption.
I think that you could also add parents to your audience as well. Starting with informing them of this issue and keeping them in the loop as to what their child might experience in the classroom so they can support your efforts from home.

Karling

Golden Williams

9/8/2019 10:40:23 pm

Alexis,
After reading your blog I feel that we will have some of the same audience on our websites. I would like to check out your website when it complete because I have the same problem in my classroom when it comes to early finishers and of task behaviors.

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