Standard 2 - Content Area and Pedagogical Knowledge – The competent teacher has in-depth understanding of content area knowledge that includes central concepts, methods of inquiry, structures of the disciplines, and content area literacy. The teacher creates meaningful learning experiences for each student based upon interactions among content area and pedagogical knowledge, and evidence-based practice.
Health and Wellness Lesson- Music
Lesson Explanation
Within this lesson, students were able to connect and learn more about their feelings and mental health. The main idea of the lesson was to have students listen to songs and explain their feelings on the subject.
After that, students were introduced to an article to go over mental health benefits that come from listening to music.
Overall, the lesson is interactive and gives students a chance to learn more about physical and mental health.
Hearing different student's opinion gave me a better understanding how they interrupt their feelings and having a class discussion also gave them more opportunities to talk about it more to ask questions.
Health Benefits PP- Benefits
Lesson Explanation
This is an example of a PowerPoint used for the lesson to show the benefits of having exercise in one's life.
The interactive PowerPoint was fun and easy to understand for all ages.
Having visuals give students a chance to understand content easier and gives them a referral to go back to if they have any other questions.