IPTS 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.
The competent teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage students' development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills.
*6G. The competent teacher 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.
Artifact: 1930's Research Lesson Plan
This is a lesson plan for a lesson I taught, while student teaching at a high school, that involved identifying relevant resources and information for a research project.
Artifact: 1930's Research Lesson Plan
This is a lesson plan for a lesson I taught, while student teaching at a high school, that involved identifying relevant resources and information for a research project.
Reflection
I have gained significant growth in strategically planning my lessons and determining the most important points to teach and how to convey the necessary information in a short amount of time. This was challenging because their teacher sticks to a very strict schedule, and she only planned on allowing me 5 minutes of instruction in order to provide them with ample time to research. We discussed where to find information in reference sources (index vs. table of contents), and I pointed out how I organized the books in piles by topic to make the information that much more accessible.
They were then set free and responsible for selecting the most relevant resources for their topic. My lesson, albeit short, seemed to work because hardly anyone came to me with questions in regards to anything we discussed. I made sure to not directly answer those who did ask me a question and instead asked open-ended questions alluding back to what I had taught so they had to try problem-solving on their own first.
I have gained significant growth in strategically planning my lessons and determining the most important points to teach and how to convey the necessary information in a short amount of time. This was challenging because their teacher sticks to a very strict schedule, and she only planned on allowing me 5 minutes of instruction in order to provide them with ample time to research. We discussed where to find information in reference sources (index vs. table of contents), and I pointed out how I organized the books in piles by topic to make the information that much more accessible.
They were then set free and responsible for selecting the most relevant resources for their topic. My lesson, albeit short, seemed to work because hardly anyone came to me with questions in regards to anything we discussed. I made sure to not directly answer those who did ask me a question and instead asked open-ended questions alluding back to what I had taught so they had to try problem-solving on their own first.