1A:1A is about demonstrating the knowledge of content and pedagogy. This consists of teachers knowing their content and structure, prerequisite relationships, and content-related pedagogy. What this means is teacher understand their topic and how they are connected, know which concepts require mastery before moving on, and can understand and identify how to best teach their students. These can be obtained by attending webinars, workshops, and constantly extending your learning as a teacher.
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1B:1B is about demonstrating the knowledge of students. This can be accomplished through both visuals, and also through verbal communication. It's important to understand their interests and what they are into in order to better understand your students and help them learn in the most enjoyable way possible. Some examples can be filling out a survey, doing crafts that students enjoy, and having something like a birthday board for them.
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1C:,C is about understanding the importance of the objectives in instruction. The elements consists of value, clarity, balance, and suitability for diverse learners. This means that outcomes must be put in a logical way that promotes learning, the outcomes should be clearly stated and show student learning, the instructional objectives must reflect a variety of different outcomes, and that the outcomes must be related to the needs of each individual student.
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1D:1D is about demonstrating knowledge of available resources. This here refers to resources to use both inside the classroom and outside the classroom. This can be accomplished by keeping up to date with the new online resources and new resources readily available to you and your classroom. It's important to stay up to date to help engage your students. For example some resources could consist of PDESAS, a Curriculum Library, Pinterest, and online websites such as Study Island.
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1E:1E is about designing coherent instruction. Coherent instruction is the planning, reflection upon the teacher's knowledge of content and the students, the outcomes of instruction, and the available resources. This includes making sure learning activities are engaging and challenging, the instructional materials must be selected aids that are appropriate with students in mind, the instructional groups should be appropriate to students' level, and the lesson structure should be clear and sequenced. An example would be using resources from both the internet to the ones provided to you in your classroom.
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1F:1F is about designing an assessment for your students. This means it must have congruence with instructional outcomes, the criteria and standards, the design of a formative, and the use for planning. There are two types of assessments called Summative assessment and Formative assessment. A Summative assessment is a graded assessment to test or check the students such as homework, quizzes, and tests. A Formative assessment is checking to see where your students are along the way such as group work, and examples. Assessing is important to see where your students are and what or how you can improve upon as a teacher.
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