Instructional Delivery
The competent teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage students’ development of critical thinking, problem-solving, and performance skills.
Knowledge Indicators - The competent teacher:
6A. understands the cognitive processes associated with various kinds of learning and how these processes can be stimulated.
6B. understands principles and techniques, along with advantages and limitations, associated withvarious instructional strategies.
6C. knows how to enhance learning through the use of a wide variety of materials as well as human and technological resources.
6D. understands the disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to learning and how they relate tolife and career experiences.
6E. knows techniques for modifying instructional methods, materials, and the environment to facilitate learning for students with disabilities and/or diverse learning characteristics.
Performance Indicators - The competent teacher:
6F. evaluates how to achieve learning goals, choosing alternative teaching strategies and materials to achieve different instructional purposes and to meet students’ needs.
6G. uses multiple teaching and learning strategies to engage students in active learning opportunities that promote the development of critical thinking, problem-solving, and performance capabilities and that help students assume responsibility for identifying and using learning resources.
6H. monitors and adjusts strategies in response to learners’ feedback.
6I. varies his or her role in the instructional process as instructor, facilitator, coach, or audience in relation to the content and purposes of instruction and the needs of students.
6J. develops a variety of clear, accurate presentations and representations of concepts, using alternative explanations to assist students’ understanding and presenting diverse perspectives to encourage critical thinking.
6K. uses a wide range of instructional technologies to enhance students’ learning.
6L. develops curriculum that demonstrates an interconnection between subject areas that will reflect life and career experiences.
6M. uses strategies and techniques for facilitating meaningful inclusion of individuals withdisabilities.
6N. uses technology appropriately to accomplish instructional objectives.
6O. adapts the general curriculum and uses instructional strategies and materials according to characteristics of the learner.
6P. implements and evaluates individual learning objectives.
6A. understands the cognitive processes associated with various kinds of learning and how these processes can be stimulated.
6B. understands principles and techniques, along with advantages and limitations, associated withvarious instructional strategies.
6C. knows how to enhance learning through the use of a wide variety of materials as well as human and technological resources.
6D. understands the disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to learning and how they relate tolife and career experiences.
6E. knows techniques for modifying instructional methods, materials, and the environment to facilitate learning for students with disabilities and/or diverse learning characteristics.
Performance Indicators - The competent teacher:
6F. evaluates how to achieve learning goals, choosing alternative teaching strategies and materials to achieve different instructional purposes and to meet students’ needs.
6G. uses multiple teaching and learning strategies to engage students in active learning opportunities that promote the development of critical thinking, problem-solving, and performance capabilities and that help students assume responsibility for identifying and using learning resources.
6H. monitors and adjusts strategies in response to learners’ feedback.
6I. varies his or her role in the instructional process as instructor, facilitator, coach, or audience in relation to the content and purposes of instruction and the needs of students.
6J. develops a variety of clear, accurate presentations and representations of concepts, using alternative explanations to assist students’ understanding and presenting diverse perspectives to encourage critical thinking.
6K. uses a wide range of instructional technologies to enhance students’ learning.
6L. develops curriculum that demonstrates an interconnection between subject areas that will reflect life and career experiences.
6M. uses strategies and techniques for facilitating meaningful inclusion of individuals withdisabilities.
6N. uses technology appropriately to accomplish instructional objectives.
6O. adapts the general curriculum and uses instructional strategies and materials according to characteristics of the learner.
6P. implements and evaluates individual learning objectives.
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Reflection
Artifact: Measurement Math lesson
PTS 6: Instructional Delivery: The competent teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage students’ development of critical thinking, problem-solving, and performance skills.
Write a paragraph explaining your knowledge and understanding of that standard—put the standard into your own words.
For the truly exceptional teacher, it’s a difficult task indeed to stand at the front of the class and lecture to students every day. The exceptional teacher understands that students have different ways of processing and developing information, and not all of them can be auditory learners. Using and understanding the disadvantages and advantages and many different types of instruction will greatly benefit the students, who demand a different type of instruction to learn effectively. Also, this skill is one of the marks of an exceptional or competent teacher.
Explain how the artifact you chose demonstrates your understanding and application of the standard
For my artifact I chose to use a math lesson that I wrote to be used in my 4th grade classroom. I unfortunately never had the chance to implement the lesson, but I believe that it could be modified and be made to fit other classrooms, so I plan to use it in the future. I chose this math lesson because I believe it represents my understanding of the knowledge indicator 6A, where the competent teacher “understands the cognitive processes associated with various kinds of learning and how these processes can be stimulated.” In the lesson I use several different learning styles, the biggest one however that is demanded for the lesson is the bodily kinesthetic, where students are up and moving around and touching and tinkering and moving. I understand that math is a subject that does not allow for much student to student interaction, and I think that this is a crime considering what students can learn from each other. Having my lesson set up this way also demonstrates that I understand not every student can learn by sitting at a desk and taking notes, and need to be more engaged and active in their learning.
Another reason that I chose this Math lesson to represent this standard is because I believe is shows that I understand knowledge indicator 6C where is state that the competent teacher “knows how to enhance learning through the use of a wide variety of materials as well as human and technological resources.” In my lesson students are using many different kinds of materials in order to complete the tasks given, and they are also given each other as a resource for information and help through learning. In this lesson I also make myself a resource, in that I am constantly over the students’ shoulders and asking them questions how what they were doing and how they were thinking through the problems at hand.
If the artifact has not been used in your practice, i.e., a class assignment, reflect upon how your teaching will be impacted by the assignment.
I believe that creating this assignment will impact my teaching in the future because I plan on using this lesson in the future. I’m a very bodily/kinesthetic learning myself, and need to be moving around and handling things in order to construct meaning for myself, and though I know not all of my students are that way, some of them will be and will benefit from this lesson. I believe that even those students who are not will benefit from this lesson, because there is still some form of Auditory and logical learning patterns necessary to complete the assignment. I created this lesson specifically to be geared towards engaging different learning styles, and having had the experience I believe it will positively affect my teaching.
Conclude with a paragraph discussing how you are more prepared to Teach and Learn in a Diverse Society as a result of satisfactorily meeting the standard.
Diversity is not just about the color of your skin or what religion you choose to practice, it’s also about the kind of learn that you are. Understanding that not every child is the same and they don’t come from a factory prepackaged to learn at equal rates is a useful and necessary quality for a competent teacher. In the past, it has been acceptable to expect students to adjust to you, but this is no longer the case. Adjusting yourself to accommodate your students is necessary, and beneficial to their education, and your growth as an educator. I take this very seriously, and thus believe that this is why I am more prepared to teach in a diverse society.
Artifact: Measurement Math lesson
PTS 6: Instructional Delivery: The competent teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage students’ development of critical thinking, problem-solving, and performance skills.
Write a paragraph explaining your knowledge and understanding of that standard—put the standard into your own words.
For the truly exceptional teacher, it’s a difficult task indeed to stand at the front of the class and lecture to students every day. The exceptional teacher understands that students have different ways of processing and developing information, and not all of them can be auditory learners. Using and understanding the disadvantages and advantages and many different types of instruction will greatly benefit the students, who demand a different type of instruction to learn effectively. Also, this skill is one of the marks of an exceptional or competent teacher.
Explain how the artifact you chose demonstrates your understanding and application of the standard
For my artifact I chose to use a math lesson that I wrote to be used in my 4th grade classroom. I unfortunately never had the chance to implement the lesson, but I believe that it could be modified and be made to fit other classrooms, so I plan to use it in the future. I chose this math lesson because I believe it represents my understanding of the knowledge indicator 6A, where the competent teacher “understands the cognitive processes associated with various kinds of learning and how these processes can be stimulated.” In the lesson I use several different learning styles, the biggest one however that is demanded for the lesson is the bodily kinesthetic, where students are up and moving around and touching and tinkering and moving. I understand that math is a subject that does not allow for much student to student interaction, and I think that this is a crime considering what students can learn from each other. Having my lesson set up this way also demonstrates that I understand not every student can learn by sitting at a desk and taking notes, and need to be more engaged and active in their learning.
Another reason that I chose this Math lesson to represent this standard is because I believe is shows that I understand knowledge indicator 6C where is state that the competent teacher “knows how to enhance learning through the use of a wide variety of materials as well as human and technological resources.” In my lesson students are using many different kinds of materials in order to complete the tasks given, and they are also given each other as a resource for information and help through learning. In this lesson I also make myself a resource, in that I am constantly over the students’ shoulders and asking them questions how what they were doing and how they were thinking through the problems at hand.
If the artifact has not been used in your practice, i.e., a class assignment, reflect upon how your teaching will be impacted by the assignment.
I believe that creating this assignment will impact my teaching in the future because I plan on using this lesson in the future. I’m a very bodily/kinesthetic learning myself, and need to be moving around and handling things in order to construct meaning for myself, and though I know not all of my students are that way, some of them will be and will benefit from this lesson. I believe that even those students who are not will benefit from this lesson, because there is still some form of Auditory and logical learning patterns necessary to complete the assignment. I created this lesson specifically to be geared towards engaging different learning styles, and having had the experience I believe it will positively affect my teaching.
Conclude with a paragraph discussing how you are more prepared to Teach and Learn in a Diverse Society as a result of satisfactorily meeting the standard.
Diversity is not just about the color of your skin or what religion you choose to practice, it’s also about the kind of learn that you are. Understanding that not every child is the same and they don’t come from a factory prepackaged to learn at equal rates is a useful and necessary quality for a competent teacher. In the past, it has been acceptable to expect students to adjust to you, but this is no longer the case. Adjusting yourself to accommodate your students is necessary, and beneficial to their education, and your growth as an educator. I take this very seriously, and thus believe that this is why I am more prepared to teach in a diverse society.