Idaho State Standard 4
multiple instructional strategies
The first artifact of standard 4 is an instructional video I created for my Master of Arts in Teaching thesis research during the Spring of 2014 at Capital High School. The second artifact contains a lesson plan of a simulation lesson I team taught on April 15th, 2013 for my Curriculum and Instruction class with Dr. Moore at the College of Idaho. The third artifact is the table of contents from my teaching strategies binder created in the fall of my junior year at The College of Idaho for the class, Literacy in the Content Areas, with Dr. Yates and Dr. Copple.
My research in Flipped Learning (see Master of Arts in Teaching page for more information) provided a new instructional strategy of student-centered learning with a technology integrated method of teaching that I was able to investigate and implement. For this reason, I included the artifact of a video I created for the unit. This type of teaching allows students to utilize problem solving, analytical reasoning, and discussion skills to investigate the material being presented in the videos. After seeing the success of this teaching methodology over the course of my research, this is the type of teaching I want to embrace as an educator.
I decided to include my second artifact because it is an example of myself applying the experience based learning method of teaching in a lesson I team taught. In this lesson, student underwent a simulation of an example of poor classroom management. By setting up the simulation, the students gained the first-hand perspective of what it feels like to be in a classroom with a lack of classroom management. They were then lead through a discussion of how to effectively implement classroom management, in which the students critically thought about their experiences. From the discussion, it deeply occurred to me how effective experiential learning can be and how much I would like to implement this methodology in my own classroom.
My last artifact was chosen because by the end of my Literacy in the Content Areas, I had completed a notebook that has over 50 different instructional strategies that could be employed to in my teaching area. I know as an educator, these strategies will give a base variety to adjust and adapt my lessons for the students do to how literacy in mathematics is such a crucial aspect. With this variety of strategies I have in my notebook, I will be able to employ them in my classroom to assist students in defining, reading, understanding, and analyzing mathematics, physics, and chemistry. Thus, I placed these artifacts in standard 4, Multiple Instruction Strategies, because they demonstrate how the teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to develop students’ critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills.
My research in Flipped Learning (see Master of Arts in Teaching page for more information) provided a new instructional strategy of student-centered learning with a technology integrated method of teaching that I was able to investigate and implement. For this reason, I included the artifact of a video I created for the unit. This type of teaching allows students to utilize problem solving, analytical reasoning, and discussion skills to investigate the material being presented in the videos. After seeing the success of this teaching methodology over the course of my research, this is the type of teaching I want to embrace as an educator.
I decided to include my second artifact because it is an example of myself applying the experience based learning method of teaching in a lesson I team taught. In this lesson, student underwent a simulation of an example of poor classroom management. By setting up the simulation, the students gained the first-hand perspective of what it feels like to be in a classroom with a lack of classroom management. They were then lead through a discussion of how to effectively implement classroom management, in which the students critically thought about their experiences. From the discussion, it deeply occurred to me how effective experiential learning can be and how much I would like to implement this methodology in my own classroom.
My last artifact was chosen because by the end of my Literacy in the Content Areas, I had completed a notebook that has over 50 different instructional strategies that could be employed to in my teaching area. I know as an educator, these strategies will give a base variety to adjust and adapt my lessons for the students do to how literacy in mathematics is such a crucial aspect. With this variety of strategies I have in my notebook, I will be able to employ them in my classroom to assist students in defining, reading, understanding, and analyzing mathematics, physics, and chemistry. Thus, I placed these artifacts in standard 4, Multiple Instruction Strategies, because they demonstrate how the teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to develop students’ critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills.