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Essay / Importance of Instructional Planning in Education
The third point expresses the importance of “Candidates understand[ing] how to manage the appropriate use of support staff, including volunteers, when they are available , and create plans for these people to help students. to achieve educational objectives. During my second year of teaching, I was fortunate to meet community volunteers who were interested in providing support in my classroom once a week. This year I have three volunteers supporting my classroom by asking students questions, listening to group conversations, handing out and collecting homework, and grading. While these tasks are all helpful, I believe I could use my volunteers more appropriately. What I mean by appropriate is that I could remove small groups of struggling students while my volunteer checks in with the other students or vice versa. This would give my struggling students more individual attention to review the concepts they will need to "meet the educational goals" and feel successful or even proud of themselves. For the next quarter, I would like to challenge myself to create plans to remove students on days when I have volunteers in my