Internship Blog Portfolio

3.3 Demonstrating Flexibility and Responsiveness in Persisting to Support Students. At my current internship, I have come to understand the importance of utilizing different approaches to support student learning. For example, in my yoga core class, student folders are collected at the end of class for classroom management purposes (i.e. attendance and record keeping). Which means, students do not have access to the instructional resources found in their folders outside of the classroom. This creates a learning gap for students that need more time or a different environment to interpret the instructional resources, such as their pose sheet. In order to rid of this gap between the

Figure 1. Yoga Core Website

classroom and home, as shown in Figure 1, I have developed a yoga core website for my students. On the internet resource, students have access to all of the instructional resources utilized during class time. In addition to this, when a student is absent they have the ability to access the website and read the information they missed. For example, if a student was absent the day that we discussed Sun Salutations, they would be instructed to access the webpage shown in Figure 2 that covers the content that they missed. This allows for both the teacher and student to

Figure 2. Sun Salutation Webpage

effectively work together to meet the common goal of student understanding of the content covered in the course. As concluded by Harushimana (2008), “Internet resources are essential in the education of reluctant and struggling adolescent learners.” This demonstrates my ability to show flexibility and responsiveness towards meeting and supporting student needs both in and out of the classroom.

Link to Yoga Core Website: https://sites.google.com/view/yogacore/home

Reference

Harushimana, I. (2008). Educating the web-savvy urban teacher: Website evaluation tips and internet resources for secondary educators. AACE Journal, 16(3), 275-291.