The competent teacher understands the diverse characteristics and abilities of each student and how individuals develop and learn within the context of their social, economic, cultural, linguistic, and academic experiences. The teacher uses these experiences to create instructional opportunities that maximize student learning.
Swimming Endurance Lesson Plan
Description-
This artifact is a lesson plan created for our swim unit. The students worked on their muscular endurance by swimming for 20 minutes straight. It contains the different style swimming techniques that were taught. This artifact was created at the beginning of the second semester. It was produced to allow show the students how their muscular endurance has progressed throughout the unit.
Connection-
The importance of this artifact is for all students to physically feel changes in their muscular endurance. This artifact is modified to accommodate all different levels of swimmers. The strong swimmers use the entire pool. The beginning swimmers use the shallow end for safety and comfort. The distance swam is the same for all levels. The beginning swimmers also have kick boards and fins available so that they get the full effect of our lesson. By allowing the students to choose their swim style it, "stimulates prior knowledge and links new ideas to already familiar ideas and experiences". This displays one of the performance indicators. This artifact shows understanding of the standard by making accommodations such as shallow end only and kick boards because now all students are given an equal experience in this unit.
Learned-
My students learned how their hard work during the unit will affect their muscular and cardiovascular endurance. They also learned how we were able to adjust the lesson to accommodate the skills of all swimmers. This has proven to me that all of our lessons that get created have the ability to be modified for suite all unique students. I know that I can apply this artifact to my future lessons and classroom because they must be acceptable for all students.
Description -
This is a video of me giving instruction about volleyball skills to my Physical Education class. It contains the skills for bumping, setting, and spiking. It was created during my time student teaching and it was produced so I could have a better insight into how I teach.
Connection-
The importance of this artifact is to display the teaching techniques I use while giving instruction to my diverse class. It shows evidence of understanding of the standard because we are working on skills with the equipment that we have accessible. It will connect to my future classroom because it is still possible to complete the skills lesson even without a net available. Some students may not have access to a volleyball court and net so I want to make it possible to still deliver instruction effectively. All students bring different attributes to the classroom so it is important to, "understand how to identify individual needs and how to locate and access technology, services, and resources to address those needs". Every student must have an equal opportunity to learn regardless of the daily lesson.
Learned-
I have learned how to start small with my instruction so that all students can progress together. We were able to work on volleyball skills in an open space and without a net. This will help my development as a teacher by forcing me to make the most out of what I am given. I know that all students will have access to a volleyball net and court so they now have learned some skills that only require and open space.