Standard #4: The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage students' development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills.
I understand the different cognitive processes and will use a variety of techniques to engage my students. I will encourage my students to actively participate in the learning process and to become critical, independent thinkers. I will adjust my instruction as a result of students' responses and progress in my class.
Artifact ten is an "Infusion Worksheet." It is designed to help teacher's articulate how environmental education, or other extension activities, fit into the required curriculum.
Many environmental education and extension activities naturally engage students to be active participants in their own learning. I recognize the importance of creating active learners and know how to utilize these types of activities in a classroom.
Artifact four is a unit plan I wrote and taught for a 6th grade social studies class. The unit was based on the textbook World: Adventures in Time and Pace, "Chapter 16: European Expansion." I focused on individual inquiry with a small research project at the beginning of the unit and on guided note taking throughout the unit.
This unit demonstrates how I vary instruction throughout a unit. Instructional strategies during this unit included a research assignment with an internet search, students reading from the text, the instructor reading from text, class discussion, worksheets and note taking.
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