Standard 2
The teacher understands how children learn and develop and can provide learning opportunities that support a child’s intellectual, social, and personal development.”
As a teacher it is important to understand how a child develops on all levels. Understanding how a child develops intellectually, socially, and personally can help one develop their lesson plans. It is important to use this information to develop lesson plans, and units of study. Without an accurate understanding of the levels of development of a child it is difficult to plan meaningful lessons. Plan for something that is outside of their zone proximal development, and the students will not be able to complete the assignment on their own. Also, if you plan something that they already can do o their own and many students will be bored. It is crucial to plan lessons, and differentiate instruction so that each student is met where they are at, developmentally, and push them slightly further into accomplishing the task on their own.
Lesson plans for Teaching Different Stages of Spelling Development
The lesson plans below help children to help develop their spelling. At each level the lesson plans help students to hear sounds in different parts of the word. As a student's spelling develops the lesson plans begin to focus less on the word sounds and focus more on the different parts of the word. By studying the different parts of the word, and learning about the various prefixes, roots, and affixes, students are then able to apply that knowledge to help them spell words are difficult to sound out.
Emergent
Letter Name
Within Word
Syllable Affix
Derivational