Standard4

Standard10 __ Standard 4 __
Teachers know how to teach. 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:

Rationale 1: This activity was developed for ninth-twelve graders enrolled in an introductory foods and nutrition course. The activity is used as an enrichment tool for the purposes of review. The activity is game developed through the use of PowerPoint. It is highly interactive as there are choices for the students along with direct feedback. The activity has been used several times in several different sections of this class. Students seem to have fun when doing the activity. The teacher had to use skills developed throughout the graduate program to develop the interactive PowerPoint presentation.

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).

Developed a highly interactive PowerPoint game with various different types of incorporated media.

4.S.1 The teacher carefully evaluates how to achieve learning goals, choosing alternative teaching strategies and materials to achieve different instructional purposes and to meet student needs (e.g. developmental stages, prior knowledge, learning styles, learning differences, and interests).

The developed game was used as an enrichment tool. The game was developed to meet the needs of all diverse learners.

4.D.1 The teacher values the development of students’ critical thinking, independent problem solving, and performance capabilities

The game was designed to provide the student an individualized learning situation with performance measures in mind.