Multiple Instructional Strategies - The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to develop students' critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills.
Standard four of the Idaho core teacher standards is multiple instructional strategies. The first artifact is included is on critical pedagogy. It deals with three models of instruction based on the theories of Joan wink. It discusses the transmission, generative, and transformative models of education and their benefits or weakness. It also covers how the three models can be used to build upon each other to create the optimal learning environment for the development of the students' personal learning. It falls within standard four because it shows how teaching strategies can impact how and what students are learning.
The second artifact is a SIOP lesson plan. This lesson plan model can be adapted to fit the needs of a wide range of individual students. "99 Ideas and Activities for Teaching English Learners with the SIOP Model" by MaryEllen Vogt and Jana Echevarria has lots of examples of how to use the SIOP model. This book is what i modeled my lesson plan on and it is a great resource for a teacher to refer to for multiple means of instruction. I truly enjoy creating new and unique lesson plans that fit with the class' needs. I especially enjoy coming up with creative, hands-on ways to combine math and art. I feel that this helps individualize my lesson to meet the needs of more just, just as standard four describes.