The competent teacher differentiates instruction by using a variety of strategies that support critical and creative thinking, problem-solving, and continuous growth and learning. This teacher understands that the classroom is a dynamic environment requiring ongoing modification of instruction to enhance learning for each student.
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Rationale:
Description of what I did: For this lesson, I created it as if I was teaching a third grade class about the five major landforms which are oceans, mountains, plains, plateaus, and hills. I decided to create a Google Slides to give this lesson and did a voice recording with screen-o-matic. In the Google Slides, I added images to show what each landform looked like and examples of some major landforms that we know of. The major common ones that we know are the oceans and the mountains. I added the images of famous mountains such as Everest and Fuji. I did a small bit of research to make sure that I was teaching the correct material in the lesson. When this lesson was finished. I created a quiz on Google Docs for me to see how much students have learned during the lesson. The quiz contained ten multiple choice questions. Each question was different regarding the five major landforms. Some question included students having to identify which landform was shown in the image. In the end, this lesson was created for teaching students using the flipped classroom method.
Standard connection: Creating this lesson is useful for those students who miss class and have access to their Google Classroom at home. This is also great for students to take the lesson at their pace and being able to understand the lesson thoroughly by going back in the video if need be. Using the flipped classroom method, I saw how teachers parents and students can benefit with this. This connects with the Illinois teaching standard 5c which states "The competent teacher differentiates instruction by using a variety of strategies that support critical and creative thinking, problem-solving, and continuous growth and learning. This teacher understands that the classroom is a dynamic environment requiring ongoing modification of instruction to enhance learning for each student". This is a great way for future educators to connect with their classrooms from home and for parents to watch and even help their students with the lesson of the day.
Description of what I learned: What I learned while I was creating this is how to create video lessons for education. I learned how to edit the videos when need be, pause the recording and go back to it as if it were never paused and how important it is to know how to do this since the future classrooms will rely on technology. Everyone will benefit from doing this and I learned to come out of my comfort zone of creating new videos. I learned how to create a video without being seen and others can see what I am doing on my own screen; this is pretty amazing how much can be done with a few clicks of a button. This flipped method is helping grow to become a better educator and to prepare myself for my future classroom.