INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES
STANDARD:
understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies and appropriate technologies. Candidate performance demonstrating the following capabilities informs this standard.
The ability to:
understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies and appropriate technologies. Candidate performance demonstrating the following capabilities informs this standard.
The ability to:
- Choose effective teaching strategies and materials to meet different learning goals and student needs.
- Use multiple teaching and learning strategies to engage students in active learning opportunities and to help students take responsibility for their own learning.
- Monitor and adjust strategies in response to learner feedback.
- Vary her or his role in the instructional process depending on the content, purposes, and student needs.
- Develop a variety of clear, accurate presentations and representations of concepts, using alternative explanations to assist students’ understanding and providing diverse perspectives to encourage critical thinking.
- Employ a wide range of questioning and discussion techniques that elicit responses at a variety of affective and cognitive levels.
- Use educational technology to broaden student knowledge about technology as well as to deliver instruction.
- Encourage all students to use technology and help them to access that technology.
- Provide students with strategies for evaluating the content encountered via technology (i.e., Internet, listservs).
NARRATIVE:
My classes have used a variety of techniques, technologies, processes, and techniques to keep students actively engaged and to create a dynamic learning environment. In my theater class, I often project the day's lesson on the white cyc of the theater. I'll list standards, the lesson plan, and other important information. I often share student work on the screen as well in order to highlight what we are engaged in.
During my Arts Pathway class at the high school, I was often in with students learning and being taught by them. Students would work independently on projects and then share with the class, forcing them to be the expert in the room.
In my shows, I often assign projects which even I'm not sure what the best solution is. During a recent production of 'War of the Worlds' I asked students to build a telescope, an airplane, an anti-aircraft gun, and a giant wall of lights. The students tackled every single one of the projects by creating a variety of conceptual ideas and focusing on the best one. The first try was not always the final try. We learned quite a bit through failure and rededication to the task.
My shows also use a variety of technologies which students are asked to master. My first show had a live stream on screen via AppleTV. All productions use a variety of sound applications to build and execute sound design. I have also taught students how to maintain and run lighting instruments and microphone equipment.
I also oversee the maintenance of the homework page for my DISHS theater class, a site linked on the high school's website which points parents and students to current assignments in class.
My classes have used a variety of techniques, technologies, processes, and techniques to keep students actively engaged and to create a dynamic learning environment. In my theater class, I often project the day's lesson on the white cyc of the theater. I'll list standards, the lesson plan, and other important information. I often share student work on the screen as well in order to highlight what we are engaged in.
During my Arts Pathway class at the high school, I was often in with students learning and being taught by them. Students would work independently on projects and then share with the class, forcing them to be the expert in the room.
In my shows, I often assign projects which even I'm not sure what the best solution is. During a recent production of 'War of the Worlds' I asked students to build a telescope, an airplane, an anti-aircraft gun, and a giant wall of lights. The students tackled every single one of the projects by creating a variety of conceptual ideas and focusing on the best one. The first try was not always the final try. We learned quite a bit through failure and rededication to the task.
My shows also use a variety of technologies which students are asked to master. My first show had a live stream on screen via AppleTV. All productions use a variety of sound applications to build and execute sound design. I have also taught students how to maintain and run lighting instruments and microphone equipment.
I also oversee the maintenance of the homework page for my DISHS theater class, a site linked on the high school's website which points parents and students to current assignments in class.
EVIDENCE: Example of a slide projected on the cyc as students walk in.