"The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage learners to develop deep understanding of content areas and their connections, and to build skills to apply knowledge in meaningful ways."
Artifact 1: Matter Flip-booklet Goal: Classify Matter by their physical properties.
The artifact I chose is the Matter Flip-booklet, which was implemented and completed throughout the whole Matter Unit, which was taught during my Student Teaching Practicum. The Matter Flip-booklet was created to help students organize and classify different objects by looking at their different physical properties. In this Flip-booklet there are eight sections which are as follows; size/length, sink/float, magnetism, flexibility, texture, shape, color, and state. To complete this booklet, students need to cut out pictures from magazines or draw pictures of their own to paste onto the correct sections of the book. As we learn about the different states and physical properties of Matter, the booklet slowly fills up with a variety of pictures of different things. But before allowing students to do this on their own, I made sure to model what needs to be done. After a few modeling students were able to complete their Flip-booklets on their own, as they learned about new ways of classifying objects.
This artifact relates and meets the Standard 8: Instructional Strategies because I believe that it best represents my ability to "provide multiple models and representations of concepts and skills with opportunities for learners to demonstrate their knowledge through a variety of products and performance 8(e)." I believe that by providing models within instruction benefits students tremendously because it shows them what is expected. I believe that when students know what they need to do, they will produce quality work that they can be proud of. I also believe that modeling will help the visual learners to see the directions rather then just reading it and believing that they will understand what they need to do.