INTASC+Standard+4

__**STANDARD:**__ The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage students' development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills.
 * __INTASC Standard 4__**

INTASC.4.C K: The teacher knows how to enhance learning through the use of a wide variety of materials as well as human and technological resources (e.g. computers, audio-visual technologies, videotapes and discs, local experts, primary documents and artifacts, texts, reference books, literature, and other print resources). INTASC.4.D D: The teacher values the development of students' critical thinking, independent problem solving, and performance capabilities.
 * __Specific Category of Standard 4:__**

The teacher understands that students in his or her classroom use different techniques to learn the material. Whether the student is audio, visual, or kinesthetic learner the teacher must be able to meet all types of learning to ensure his or her classroom understands the material presented. Also, the teacher must be aware that students might need extra help through remedial reviews or more advance content to keep the student engaged.
 * __Understanding Sentence:__**


 * __Artifacts:__**
 * School Choice [[file:School%20Choice.isf]]

My artifact is the School Choice presentation I did through the Inspiration software. It is a great way for all types of learners to express themselves on a certain topic. In Inspiration, you are able to visually organize the material and attach audio samples to the document through movies and radio clips. The students can research a topic and connect all types of resources that will help them learn. This software is on a computer and it helps students use technology to help enhance their learning. The students are able to use all types of resources that range from literature, to audio-visual examples. Since my project was on school choice I showed how this one event affected many different categories. The students could easily do this on any historical event and showcase how contents overlap. This project also helps the students with their critical thinking and problem solving skills. It will take extra thought to fit an event into the categories that you are requiring. It helps the student think out of the box and make connections. This way of creating a web shows students that certain events affect others and how everything is interconnected. **Since the students complete their own projects they are developing their independent problem solving skills.
 * __Reflect:__**
 * It is important for me to be aware and empathetic to every type of learner in my classroom. Every student should have the same opportunity to make each subject valuable and pertinent to their own life. It would be very bad if only a handful of students understand what I am saying because I only taught towards the audio learners. The visual and kinesthetic learners would be a very large disadvantage and would have a hard time understanding what I am teaching. I need to be aware that all my lessons give the opportunity for every student a way to connect to the material. **

My School Choice artifact shows that I use a variety of mediums to learn. I like to use as many resources as possible when researching a topic. As a learner, I understand that topics can be better understood if it is given in different mediums. No subject should be taught solely in one way because people learn in all different ways, visually, orally, and kinesthetically. All concepts can be viewed in a different manner whether it is through video, or an online resource or even book in print. Students need to be given the opportunity to learn in all mediums and it is my job as the teacher to deliver the curriculum in all ways. I will be a teacher that will not teach solely in one way. I understand how it hinders students since I was the student who could not absorb material if it is only given through lectures. I will be constantly switching it up by giving my notes as a lecture one day, teaching more visually another day through a demonstration and kinesthetically the third. It is my job to make learning as easy as possible for my students. My evolving philosophy includes giving my students the chance to learn through different materials which follows standard 4.
 * __Project:__**