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The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies, including the use of technology, to encourage children's development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills. Evidence 1: “A Crush” poetry lesson
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Rationale 1: Students in seventh grade language arts will use a variety of technology to complete this poetry lesson. Students will use bubbl.us to brainstorm ideas from the story “A Crush” from both characthers’ points-of-view. Students will create a poem from each point-of-view on a wiki space with a partner. To complete the lesson, students will create podcasts of their poems to put on their wikispace.

This lesson has been done in previous years, but this is the first year it will involve technology to this extent. Students will be instructed on the uses of bubbl.us, wikis, and podcasts prior to having to complete these projects. They will be developing critical thinking skills along with problem solving skills as they learn these new tools.

KSD:

4.K.3 The teacher knows how to enhance learning through the use of a wide variety of materials 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).   This lesson offers students opportunities to use new programs and technologies. Students will be exposed to some tools they are familiar with, while learning some new ones as well. This lesson takes poetry writing from boring to exciting for most students, through the use of 21st Century tools that most love to work with.

4.S.3 The teacher constantly monitoring and adjusting strategies in response to learner feedback.   This lesson is taught to three different language arts classes. As each class works on each separate task, strategies are monitored and adjusted. Students are given immediate feedback with each task and given opportunities to change their information, while learning through mistakes.

4.D.2 The teacher values flexibility and reciprocity in the teaching process as necessary for adapting instruction to student responses, ideas, and needs.   This project offers flexibility with student work through each step of the process. Students are able to work to their ability, in their comfort zone, while learning new tools. Student responses and ideas are taken into consideration while adjusting lesson plans each day. Students have freedoms to take projects further and try new ideas they may have.