Standard 3 Educators understand and apply knowledge of student growth and development.
Why not begin with the standard which was less referred to in classes.
This arises from an experience prior to the program and potentially unrelated to it, though I think it has potential to express an understanding of Standard 3.
Following the political chaos within Eastern Europe in the year 2022 my family sponsored a family’s arrival to the province. It followed that we invited them to Christmas Dinner. After the dinner I brought out a chess board to challenge my brother, mostly as a joke since his planning and competitiveness did not mix well last time we’d competed against each other.
One of the children from the sponsored family saw the board and was immediately interested. So we set it up and had a match. I defeated a primary aged child.
Barely
In that part of the world Chess is a commonly played game to the point that I saw the child almost expecting a chess clock to be beside the board.
To a degree I expected this child to be more experienced with chess but I was entirely surprised by the skills that were present. Other things that could have influenced my perceptions would be that since the child had little English competency they were more withdrawn.
What I take from this is that students will need to have greater things to work towards because if they become interested in what you are teaching they will tear through it like it is nothing and will leave the unprepared teacher in need of more.
It is critically important not to overestimate the skills of students generally, they can only know what they were taught through teachers, peers, and necessity. Expecting students to “know” about any given topic could lead to greater consequences. I recall in my elementary years being informed by a substitute teacher that we “had it easy” since we knew how to use a mouse easily. 2 years before we had to be taught that a computer monitor is not the same as the computer itself, which was something that the teacher at the time expected us to know.
If during my game of chess I had talked about the type of opening I had made I would expect a completely blank stare, not least because it takes time to learn English and above and beyond that is the Chess theory and discussions on that topic which even less people are interested in than the game itself.