REQUIREMENTS
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A. Identify three videos from the attached “Task 1 Video List” found in the Supporting Documents section.
B. Reflect on your video observations by doing the following:
1. Discuss specific examples of how the teachers in the videos effectively incorporated the needs of individual learners within their learning environments, including at least one example of each of the following from any of the three videos:
• cultural needs
• social needs
• emotional needs
Effective Incorporation of Needs
Ineffective Incorporation of Needs
2. Discuss ways that the teachers could have more effectively incorporated individual learners’ cultural, social, or emotional needs in the learning environments.
3. Discuss two strategies you learned from observing the videos that you could incorporate into your future practice as a teacher.
a. Identify the key elements of culturally sustaining pedagogy, and explain how you can apply this pedagogy in your future classroom.
Future PracticeCulturally Sustaining Pedagogy
4. Explain how you could involve your students’ caregivers in the execution of the strategies from part B3, including specific examples.
5. Explain how you could involve the community in the execution of the strategies from part B3, including specific examples.
Involvement of Community
C. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
D. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
Task 1 Video List
Select three videos from this list to watch prior to completing the requirements for this task. The videos you choose should, collectively, represent examples of teachers addressing the cultural, social, and emotional needs of students.To determine the content of each video, it may help to read the descriptions on the web pages.
4. “Defining the Problem, Effect, and Solution through an Interactive Read Aloud,” kindergarten
https://lrps.wgu.edu/provision/200783059
6. “Developing Drug Awareness and Resistance Skills,” sixth grade
https://lrps.wgu.edu/provision/190967517
7. “Learning about Cultural Identity,” kindergarten
https://lrps.wgu.edu/provision/134389413