Standard #1: The teacher understands the central concepts, tools of inquiry, and structures of the discipline(s) s/he teaches and can create learning experiences that make these aspects of subject matter meaningful for students.
I understand the main concepts and tools of inquiry of my discipline. I will use this to teach my students. I will continue to study and utilize my colleges to keep informed on the latest information in my discipline. I will create meaningful learning experiences for my students through multidisciplinary activities.
Artifact twelve is a writing lesson plan. For this lesson students wrote a generalization (a skill they had been working on in reading) about a specific person they knew and then added detail to elaborate on the generalization. To encourage self-reflection, students were then asked to grade themselves.
This lesson shows my content knowledge in the area of English langue arts. It shows that I recognize the importance to students learning, of individual choice in their writing. This lesson also shows my knowledge of writing lesson plans in a standard format.
Artifact five is a collection of materials from the workshop: "Into the Book." This workshop introduced teachers to the Educational Communications Board program "Into the Book." "Into the Book" is an internet based set of tools to help students improve reading comprehension. There are nine main reading strategies this program focuses on including questioning, visualizing and inferring.
The main focus of the program "Into the Book" is to give students tools to improve their reading compression. I am trained to use this program effectively in my classroom. Reading comprehension is important across the subjects and so this program will help me facilitate learning in all aspects of my teaching.
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