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Standard 2

**Standard 2** ** Teachers know how children grow. ** The teacher understands how children with broad ranges of ability learn and provides instruction that supports their intellectual, social, and personal development.
 * Evidence 1: Math is Fun! Online ClassMath Is Fun **

Rationale 1: The creation of this hybrid course was developed to help learn and challenge second graders with all abilities in math. This online course gives students the opportunity to work on math at their level and what they are ready for and also gives students who are more advanced in math a chance to challenge themselves and further their skills. Assignments will be open to students on the wiki and allow them to have access at all times. Students can work at their own pace to complete the assignments and activities in or outside of the regular classroom with help from the teacher during the regular school day. The creation of this course is very fundamental in the development of the teacher because it gives the teacher another way to work with and communicate with all students not only during the school day but outside of it as well. It will help give second graders of ability levels the chance to be challenged. The creation of this course was developed because of the need demonstrated by test scores in the area of math and meant to help students to develop, challenge, and build their math skills. Students were needing a new way to be challenged while continuing to grow and develop their math strategies. The creation of this course allows students to access prior math knowledge and teaches students to be responsible, independent, and work at their own pace while increasing their math abilities. The course allows students to engage in lessons that include interactive activities that promote learning. Students are given the ability to work independently throughout the course on their math weaknesses and strengths. They are challenged to work at their own pace and develop and grow as students.
 * KSD **
 * 2.K.2 ** **The teacher understands that students' physical, social, emotional, moral, and cognitive development influence learning and knows how to address these factors when making instructional decisions.**
 * 2.S.2 ** **The teacher stimulates student reflection on prior knowledge and links new ideas to already familiar ideas, making connections to students’ experiences, providing opportunities for active engagement, manipulation, and testing of ideas and material, and encouraging students to assume responsibility for shaping their learning tasks.**
 * 2.D.2 ** **The teacher is disposed to use students’ strengths as a basis for growth, and their errors as an opportunity for learning.**