STANDARD 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.
I selected to use the Water Conservation Web Quest as an artifact for Professional Teaching Standard 6 because it encompasses many different instructional strategies that are presented in an exciting website. The website presents students with a problem that they are in charge of solving in regards to water conservation. They are required to complete individual and group activities using a variety of different technology. For this assignment, I was instructed to create a web based inquiry on a topic of my choosing for any grade level. I chose a water conservation web quest for third grade students because they can use a variety of technological tools to critically think and problem solve in regards to a real world problem. The goal was to create a lesson plan in which all students were able to critically think and problem solve using a multitude of different technological mediums.
This artifact is an appropriate representation of the standard because it shows how a lesson I can design a unit using a variety of different instructional strategies. Knowledge indicator 6A states that the competent teacher “understands the cognitive processes associated with various kinds of learning and how these processes can be stimulated.” Throughout the webquest, I hook students interest through an exciting website. To go along with the website, I created a printable journal to aid the learning process by organizing the material and providing a hard copy for students to organize what they have learned and to create products of their learning. In this lesson, I combine instructional strategies that cater to learning styles such as individual work, partner work, group work, hands on experiments and activities, watching videos, creating graphic organizers, creating posters, filling out surveys, and finally creating a video and presentation to the school principal on how the school can save water. This gives students an opportunity to give an authentic presentation of their solution to the problem they were presented with. Overall, I believe this online unit caters to many different learning styles.
The competent teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage students’ development of critical thinking, problem-solving, and performance skills.
I selected to use the Water Conservation Web Quest as an artifact for Professional Teaching Standard 6 because it encompasses many different instructional strategies that are presented in an exciting website. The website presents students with a problem that they are in charge of solving in regards to water conservation. They are required to complete individual and group activities using a variety of different technology. For this assignment, I was instructed to create a web based inquiry on a topic of my choosing for any grade level. I chose a water conservation web quest for third grade students because they can use a variety of technological tools to critically think and problem solve in regards to a real world problem. The goal was to create a lesson plan in which all students were able to critically think and problem solve using a multitude of different technological mediums.
This artifact is an appropriate representation of the standard because it shows how a lesson I can design a unit using a variety of different instructional strategies. Knowledge indicator 6A states that the competent teacher “understands the cognitive processes associated with various kinds of learning and how these processes can be stimulated.” Throughout the webquest, I hook students interest through an exciting website. To go along with the website, I created a printable journal to aid the learning process by organizing the material and providing a hard copy for students to organize what they have learned and to create products of their learning. In this lesson, I combine instructional strategies that cater to learning styles such as individual work, partner work, group work, hands on experiments and activities, watching videos, creating graphic organizers, creating posters, filling out surveys, and finally creating a video and presentation to the school principal on how the school can save water. This gives students an opportunity to give an authentic presentation of their solution to the problem they were presented with. Overall, I believe this online unit caters to many different learning styles.