You may have visually impaired students in your school or classroom.
In a clinical last semester I had a student in my class who had a visual impairment, so when we were playing pickleball, we used a bigger ball for the student to hit and when we played badminton we let the student use a tennis racket because it had a bigger face on it, which gave him a better chance to succeed.
Prior knowledge is an important platform for disciplinary learning
In PE prior knowledge can be a huge help for a teacher because if the student has a good understanding of net/ wall games, there is some carry of from game to game, like volleyball and badminton for example. So if students have prior knowledge on the rules and tactics of net/wall games they will have a better chance to succeed. That's not to say that if they do not have the prior knowledge they wont succeed, but if they do have prior knowledge they have a better chance to succeed. I am sure that goes for all other disciplines as well.
Describe two specific ways you assess student learning during the course of a unit of study
In PE, 2 ways we assess students are on exit slips with questions about the main ideas of that given days lesson and journals; which would have them explain what they did in class and then other specifics depending on the unit and teacher. The exit slip is more informal because it is just seeing what the students took from the lesson and then the journal is more formal and would be given a grade on it.
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These "tools" have allowed to do a bunch of new things; cell phone for example. It has allowed us a bunch of affordances, such as communicating with friends and family. It also allows us to have a search engine in the palm of our hand. But it also has some constraints, millennials for example are so used to having cell phones to communicate, so they do not know how to communicate in person, or at least struggle with it. Or another constraint would be that children are so used to using their phone for entertainment that they do not go outside and do activities which have lead to higher obesity rates. Basically this goes to show that there are always affordances and constraints with these "tools"
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Reading that made my instantly think of teachers and how they will tell students that phones are NOT allowed in class, but, at least in my experiences in high school, when there is down time for the teacher, when they have assigned something, they will be on their phone at their desk. So it depends on who you are, that dictates when you are allowed to use your phone.