Standard Three | Planning for Differentiated Instruction
The competent teacher plans and designs instruction based on content area knowledge, diverse student characteristics, student performance data, curriculum goals, and the community context. The teacher plans for ongoing student growth and achievement.
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Reflection
Standard 3- Planning for Differentiated Instruction:
Performance Indicator A. | The competent teacher establishes high expectations for each student’s learning and behavior
This artifact addresses Standard 3, planning for differentiated instruction. A competent teacher creates and communicates expectations for the performance of their students. This rubric, I feel, demonstrates my high expectations for my student's writing assignments. Rubrics show students what I expect from them and then students are more likely to develop these high expectations for their writing performance. In my classroom, it will not be an option to stop improving. I feel that every student has the potential to grow and improve and I want to show them that through my expectations. This rubric with writing expectations is just one of many ways I will show my students what I expect from them. I want them to grow and they are more likely to to be able to perform the tasks I give them with ease if they have a guide, something is expected of them and someone who believes that they can meet these expectations. If they have problems completing these tasks, I can show them exactly what they need to improve using the rubric. This rubric demonstrates growth because it shows that a teacher is showing what the high expectations for their students are and is providing support to help students meet these expectations, in addition to communicating the expectations clearly.
Performance Indicator A. | The competent teacher establishes high expectations for each student’s learning and behavior
This artifact addresses Standard 3, planning for differentiated instruction. A competent teacher creates and communicates expectations for the performance of their students. This rubric, I feel, demonstrates my high expectations for my student's writing assignments. Rubrics show students what I expect from them and then students are more likely to develop these high expectations for their writing performance. In my classroom, it will not be an option to stop improving. I feel that every student has the potential to grow and improve and I want to show them that through my expectations. This rubric with writing expectations is just one of many ways I will show my students what I expect from them. I want them to grow and they are more likely to to be able to perform the tasks I give them with ease if they have a guide, something is expected of them and someone who believes that they can meet these expectations. If they have problems completing these tasks, I can show them exactly what they need to improve using the rubric. This rubric demonstrates growth because it shows that a teacher is showing what the high expectations for their students are and is providing support to help students meet these expectations, in addition to communicating the expectations clearly.
Artifact II
Standard 3 | Planning for Differentiated Instruction:
Knowledge Indicators E. | The competent teacher understands the appropriate role of technology, including assistive technology, to address student needs, as well as how to incorporate contemporary tools and resources to maximize student learning;
Knowledge Indicators E. | The competent teacher understands the appropriate role of technology, including assistive technology, to address student needs, as well as how to incorporate contemporary tools and resources to maximize student learning;
This activity addresses Standard 3, planning for differentiated instruction. This is an activity that I created on DocsTeach, a program that helps you use technology to maximize student learning. With this program a teacher can create activities to study and analyze primary sources from the National Archives. This is an activity that I would use to introduce the Industrial Revolution and an inventive period in the world. This interactive online activity, I feel is a great introduction to the study of the Industrial Revolution. I like this activity because we can use this program as a group exercise that gets a discussion going. It is a contemporary technology used to study primary source documents which I believe is very engaging for students. This is a tool that I enjoy using because it makes primary sources more interactive and more at the level of the students. Many times primary sources are difficult for students to read or overwhelming for students and I think it is important to use different types of primary sources (invention plans in this instance) and technology to help students engage with primary sources more easily. I feel this demonstrates growth as an educator because it shows that an educator can foresee student's difficulty in an area such as primary source analysis and is willing and able to seek out effective technology, like DocsTeach, to aid students.
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